Suspected explosive belt found south of Paris
PARIS (Reuters) – An object believed to be an explosive belt was found on Monday in a town south of Paris, near where a phone used by suspected assailant Salah Abdeslam was detected on the night of the attacks, a source close to the investigation said….
Dominican Republic seeks arrest of Euro MP for cocaine convicts’ speedboat escape
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic issued arrest warrants on Monday against a member of the European Parliament and two other French nationals for helping a pair of French pilots convicted on cocaine trafficking charges flee the Caribbean…
Turkish police, pro-Kurdish party at odds over alleged attack on leader
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Pro-Kurdish opposition leader Selahattin Demirtas asked Turkish prosecutors on Monday to investigate what he described as an assassination attempt on him, and his party rejected a police statement asserting damage to his …
Iran leader hosts Putin, says U.S. policies threaten Tehran, Moscow
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tehran, said on Monday U.S. policies in the Middle East region were a threat to both countries and called for closer ties between Tehran and Moscow.
Stranded migrants block railway, call hunger strike
IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) – Moroccans, Iranians and Pakistanis on Greece’s northern border with Macedonia blocked rail traffic and demanded passage to western Europe on Monday, stranded by a policy of filtering migrants in the Balkans that has raised human rights concerns.
U.N. urges deployment of more peacekeepers to South Sudan
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – South Sudan is at risk of sinking into a cycle of revenge killings on a large scale, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said as he recommended an extra 1,100 peacekeepers be deployed to the world’s youngest nation.
EU-Turkey summit on migration called for Sunday, Nov. 29: EU council head
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Leaders of the European Union and Turkey will meet in Brussels next Sunday for talks on how to handle the migration crisis and improve relations between the EU and Ankara, the summit’s chairman Donald Tusk said on Twitter on Monday…
Kerry calls for calm as Palestinian attacks on Israelis surge
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A Palestinian knifed an Israeli soldier to death in the occupied West Bank on Monday and in Jerusalem two Palestinian girls stabbed an elderly man with scissors before a policeman shot them both, killing one, attacks that stirred …
Paris to protect water supply from attack during climate summit
PARIS (Reuters) – France is to protect water systems from attack during the global climate summit that begins in Paris on Nov. 30 with up to 45,000 people, including 138 heads of state, attending just over two weeks after Islamist militants struck in t…
Armed vigilantes in Burundi’s capital expose deepening crisis
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – As darkness falls, vigilantes armed with automatic rifles emerge to patrol the streets of Bujumbura, a city plagued by killings and violence as Burundi’s crisis deepens.
