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| Israeli spy Pollard freed from U.S. prison after 30 years | |  By Roselle Chen and Ari Rabinovitch BUTNER, N.C./JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was released on parole on Friday after 30 years in a U.S. prison, Israeli and U.S. officials said, in a case that seriously strained relations between the close allies. The former U.S. Navy analyst early Friday morning left a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, about 45 miles north of Raleigh, said Edmond Ross, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. "The people of Israel welcome the release of Jonathan Pollard," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.
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| Islamist gunmen moving "floor by floor" through Mali hotel | |  Islamist gunmen who attacked the luxury Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, on Friday were moving floor by floor through the building and had arrived at the seventh floor, a senior security source said. "They are in the process of going floor by floor, room by room. Another security source said some of the hostages had been freed after being made to recite verses from the Koran.
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| Hostage freed from Mali hotel says attackers spoke English | |  CONAKRY (Reuters) - A famous Guinean singer who was among 170 people taken hostage on Friday by Islamist gunmen in the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, said he heard attackers in the next room speaking English. "I heard them say in English 'Did you load it?', 'Let's go'," singer Sékouba 'Bambino' Diabate, who was freed by Malian security forces, told Reuters in Conakry. "I wasn't able to see them because in these kinds of situations it's hard." (Reporting by Saliou Samb; Writing by Joe Bavier; Editing by Ed Cropley)
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| Insight - Bus driver who turned Paris attacker skipped police watch | |  By Chine Labbé, Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Matthias Blamont PARIS/DRANCY, France (Reuters) - One of the attackers who blew himself up in Paris's Bataclan concert hall had missed at least three weekly check-ins with French police who were investigating him on suspicion of terrorism-related activity. By the time an international arrest warrant went out in 2013, Samy Amimour was likely already in Syria. As police investigate the attacks that killed 129 people, the revelation that at least one perpetrator slipped through the hands of authorities has exposed what some describe as flaws in France's procedures to track militant suspects, in particular the system of "judicial supervision".
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| Islamists attack luxury hotel in Mali capital, TV says commandos free 80 hostages | |  By Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - Malian special forces stormed a luxury hotel in Bamako on Friday after Islamist gunmen took 170 people including many foreigners hostage in the capital of the former French colony, which has been battling rebels allied to al Qaeda for several years. State television said 80 hostages had been freed but the French newspaper Le Monde quoted the Malian security ministry as saying at least three people had been killed in the initial attack. A senior security source said the gunmen had burst into Radisson Blu hotel at 7 a.m. (0700 GMT), firing and shouting "Allahu Akbar", or "God is great" in Arabic, and begun working their way through the building, room by room and floor by floor.
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| Eighty hostages freed as special forces storm Mali hotel | |  BAMAKO (Reuters) - Eighty hostages held by Islamist gunmen have been freed from a luxury hotel in Mali's capital as government special forces moved floor by floor to clear the building, Mali's state broadcaster and a security source. "The attackers are still inside. We're hearing gunfire from time to time," said a witness outside the Radisson Blu hotel. (Reporting by Tiemoko Diallo; Writing by Joe Bavier; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg)
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| Top suspect seen on CCTV in metro during Paris attacks | |  By Leigh Thomas and Gerard Bon PARIS (Reuters) - The top suspect behind the Paris attacks has been seen on CCTV footage recorded at a metro station while the massacre that killed 129 people was still under way, a police source said on Friday. Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in a gun battle on Wednesday when police raided a house in a Paris suburb where he was holed up. Abaaoud can be seen on closed circuit TV footage at the Croix de Chavaux metro station in the Paris suburb of Montreuil, not far from where one of the cars used in the attacks was found, the police source said.
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| Three Turkish Airlines staff escape hotel under attack in Mali, official says | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - Three of seven Turkish Airlines staff members caught in a luxury hotel attacked by gunmen in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday have escaped, a Turkish government official said. It was not immediately clear if the crew were freed or fled on their own. An official previously said that six Turkish Airlines crew members were in the hotel. (Reporting by Tulay Karadeniz; Writing by Ayla Jean Yackley; Editing by Daren Butler)
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| Balkan border controls leave migrants in limbo - aid agencies | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - New border controls in the western Balkans are leaving thousands in limbo as winter sets in, aid agencies said on Friday. Balkan countries have begun filtering the flow of migrants, granting passage to those fleeing conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan but turning back others from Africa and Asia, the United Nations and Reuters witnesses said on Thursday. The measures by Macedonia, Slovenia and other states are creating tension at border crossings and leaving some families stranded, the U.N. refugee and children's agencies and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a joint statement.
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| Six Turkish Airlines staff in hotel attacked in Mali - official | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Six Turkish Airlines staff members are among those in a luxury hotel attacked by gunmen in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday, a Turkish government official said. "There are six Turkish Airlines personnel in the hotel," the official told Reuters. (Reporting by Tulay Karadeniz; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by David Dolan) |
| Lebanon security forces make arrests, seize explosives after Beirut bombs | |  Lebanese security forces carried out a series of arrests overnight, security sources said on Friday, as part of a crackdown launched after twin suicide bomb attacks killed 44 people in Beirut last week. Islamic State claimed the attacks, which targeted a busy residential and commercial suburb of the capital dominated by Shi'ite movement Hezbollah. It was the latest spillover of violence from the Syrian civil war across the border, as Hezbollah steps up its involvement in the conflict in support of President Bashar al-Assad, fighting against insurgents that include Sunni Islamist groups.
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| Gunmen shouted "Allahu Akbar" as they stormed Mali hotel - security source | | | BAMAKO (Reuters) - Gunmen shooting and shouting Islamist slogans burst into a luxury hotel in the Mali capital Bamako on Friday, a senior Malian security source said. The source said at least two private security guards had been injured. (Reporting by Tiemoko Diallo; Writing by Joe Bavier; Editing by Ed Cropley) |
| Three people were killed in Wednesday's raid by French police - official | |  Three people were killed in a police raid early Wednesday targetting the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, the prosecutors office said on Friday. Police have already identified the mangled body of the supposed mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
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| China accuses EU of "prejudice" for rights censure | | | China accused the European Union of prejudice and ignoring the facts on Friday after the EU's special representative for human rights expressed concern about the rights situation in the country. Stavros Lambrinidis said he was worried by China's arrest and harassment of lawyers and activists and new security laws that could be used to curtail freedom of expression, according to statement issued after his trip. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the statement "ignored the facts". |
| China's limited options exposed by Islamic State killing | | | By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - The killing of a Chinese citizen by Islamic State has shone the spotlight on China's paucity of options when its people are kidnapped abroad, despite its growing military prowess and international profile. With its forces untried abroad and its diplomatic influence limited in the Middle East, it is handicapped when faced with cases like Fan Jinghui, whose killing militants announced this week. China has previously obtained the release of workers kidnapped in places like Pakistan and Africa, though diplomats say it is often by paying ransoms. |
| Aid agencies decry border control measures in Balkans | | | New border restrictions in the Western Balkans, including the profiling of refugees and migrants on the basis of nationality, are creating an increasingly untenable situation, aid agencies said on Friday. The measures are creating tension at border crossings and leaving some families stranded, the U.N. refugee agency, UNICEF and International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a joint statement. "There is urgent need to put in place additional reception capaicty at the points of entry," Adrian Edwards, spokesman of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a news briefing in Geneva. |
| State finance ministers debate GST, urge simplicity | |  By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - State finance ministers called on Friday for a proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) to be simplified but did not discuss what rate it should be set at, indicating scant progress on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's priority reform. With less than a week until the winter session of parliament, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley missed the meeting of a high-level GST committee, which also lacks a permanent chairman after the last one quit amid a corruption scandal. Manish Sisodia, deputy chief minister and finance minister of the Delhi city government, said the panel wanted to focus on simplifying administration of the GST rather than lowering the rate.
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| Indonesia urges greater SE Asian cooperation to foil Paris-style attacks | | | By Kanupriya Kapoor and Randy Fabi SENTUL, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia's counter terrorism chief on Friday appealed to Southeast Asian neighbours to quickly step up intelligence-sharing efforts and combat fears that fighters returning from Syria could wage Paris-style attacks. Indonesians fighting for Islamic State could supply the training, funds and organizational skills to weld the country's many splintered militant groups into a serious threat, said Saud Usman Nasution, head of the National Counter Terrorism Agency. "We have to anticipate returnees and that must be done through cooperation and intelligence-sharing with many countries in the region," Nasution told Reuters in his office outside Jakarta, capital of the country with the world's largest Muslim population. |
| Germans split over joining combat missions against Islamic State - poll | | | Germans are divided over whether the country's armed forces should participate directly in combat missions against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, a poll showed on Friday. Some 52 percent said they were against the idea while 41 percent supported it, according to the survey by pollsters Infratest dimap for broadcaster ARD. Germany is helping to train Kurdish security forces in Iraq but has not joined the United States and France in air strikes against Islamic State positions in Syria. |
| Beckenbauer unhappy with German FA over World Cup affair | |  By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN (Reuters) - Franz Beckenbauer, the former World Cup-winning player and coach at the heart of a scandal surrounding the 2006 tournament, is unhappy with the German FA's response to his offer of a "personal" discussion with the association. The DFB is eager for Beckenbauer to provide answers on several issues including a controversial 2005 payment to FIFA and a draft contract with a disgraced former vice president at soccer's global governing body. At the heart of the affair is the 6.7 million euros ($7.15 million) payment from the German FA to FIFA that Der Spiegel magazine claimed in October was a return on a loan from then Adidas CEO Robert Louis-Dreyfus to help buy votes for Germany's World Cup bid at the FIFA election in 2000.
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| Singapore megachurch leaders sentenced to jail for pop music fraud | |  By Fathin Ungku SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The co-founder of a Singapore church and five other leaders were sentenced to jail terms of up to eight years on Friday, for fraudulently diverting millions of dollars to support his wife's pop singing career. The mix of faith and fraud has fascinated tightly-regulated Singapore, where such cases are rare in an affluent city-state with little tolerance for corruption. Senior pastor Kong Hee heads City Harvest Church, one of a growing number of Singapore's megachurches preaching a "prosperity gospel" that blends spiritual and material aspirations.
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| China says 28 foreign-led "terrorists" killed after attack on mine | | | By Michael Martina and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese security forces in the far western region of Xinjiang killed 28 "terrorists" from a group that carried out a deadly attack at a coal mine in September under the direction of "foreign extremists", the regional government said on Friday. The news carried by the official Xinjiang Daily was the first official mention of the Sept. 18 attack at the Sogan colliery in Aksu, in which it said 16 people, including 5 police officers were killed, and another 18 people injured. Radio Free Asia, which first reported the incident about two months ago, said at least 50 people had died. |
| Swedish security police say prosecutor has decided to keep terror suspect in custody | | | STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's security police (SAPO) said on Friday a prosecutor had decided to keep a man suspected of preparing a terror crime in custody. The man was arrested in the Northern mining town Boliden on Thursday and the prosecutor's decision came late the same day, SAPO said in a statement. (Reporting by Daniel Dickson; Editing by Simon Johnson) |
| Russian parliament to propose new counter-terrorism measures - agencies | | | Russian lawmakers will on Friday propose tougher punishment for terrorists and discuss introducing a raft of new security measures at a rare meeting of both chambers of parliament, Russian news agencies reported, citing a draft law. The move is a response to Kremlin confirmation that a bomb downed a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, killing all 224 people on board, and follows the Paris attacks in which Islamist extremists killed at least 129 people. Russia stepped up its air strikes against Islamist militants in Syria after concluding the plane had been blown up, but lawmakers say they want to ensure President Vladimir Putin knows he has their full support if he decides to go further. |
| U.S. House passes bill to slow Syrian refugees despite Obama veto threat | |  By Megan Cassella and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passed Republican-backed legislation on Thursday to suspend Obama's program to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year and then intensify the process of screening them. The measure, quickly drafted this week following the Islamic State attacks in Paris on Friday that killed 129 people, was approved on a vote of 289-137, with 47 of Obama's 188 fellow Democrats breaking with the White House to support it. It would require that high-level officials - the FBI director, the director of national intelligence and homeland security secretary - verify that each Syrian refugee poses no security risk.
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