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France hunts suspect, prepares for mass anti-terrorism rally

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 04:20 PM PST

A sign on the Arc de Triomphe reads "Paris is Charlie" in solidarity with the victims of the shooting at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015. France's government urged the nation to remain vigilant Saturday, as thousands of security forces try to thwart new attacks and hunt down a suspected accomplice in a rampage by terrorists linked to al-Qaida in Yemen that scarred the nation and left 20 dead. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)PARIS (AP) — France vowed to combat terrorism with "a cry for freedom" in a giant rally for unity Sunday after three days of bloodshed that horrified the world. Police searched for a woman linked to the three al-Qaida-inspired attackers, but a Turkish official said she appears to have already slipped into Syria.

French rally for attack victims on eve of Paris march of 'millions'

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 03:51 PM PST

People light candles outside the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 10, 2015More than 700,000 people poured onto the streets of France Saturday in solidarity with victims of this week's Islamist attacks, on the eve of a march in Paris expected to dwarf that figure. The poignantly silent rallies paid tribute to the 17 victims of the three-day killing spree, and came as security forces were mapping out a major deployment aimed at preventing fresh violence. World leaders including British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were set to attend Sunday's march in support of France, badly shaken by the violence. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and the king and queen of Jordan are also among those set to take part.

How French police cornered and killed jihadist attackers

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 03:45 PM PST

People light candles outside the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 10, 2015Paris (AFP) - A fingerprint smudged on a Molotov cocktail, an identity card left in a getaway car and DNA found in a balaclava all helped French police piece together the identity of the jihadist gunmen who held the country in a three-day grip of terror.

Sleeper cell awakes France's worst fears in 3 days of terror

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 03:37 PM PST

Masked gunman run towards a victim of their gun fire outside the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's office, in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. Paris residents captured chilling video images of two masked gunmen shooting a police officer after an attack at a French satirical newspaper. In the video, the gunmen armed with assault rifles are seen running up to an injured police officer, who lies squirming on the ground. The police officer raises his hands up before one of the assailants shoots him in the head at a close range. (AP Photo) NO SALESPARIS (AP) — Blood-curdling, al-Qaida-inspired murder that tore at the heart of the nation which raised him wasn't ghoulish enough for Cherif Kouachi. His body, felled by elite soldiers' bullets and stun grenades, wasn't yet cold when he also came back from the dead.

France Declares Its Own 'War on Terror'

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 03:08 PM PST

France Declares Its Own 'War on Terror'Amid tight security, thousands marched in Paris on Saturday in commemoration of the 17 victims of two separate terrorist attacks that rocked France this week: Wednesday's massacre of 12 in and near the office of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, and Friday's siege of a Jewish grocery store that resulted in five more deaths. Appearing on Saturday in the town of Évry, south of Paris, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told his people to expect war.

Obama to host Cameron next week at White House

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 01:57 PM PST

US President Barack Obama speaks in Knoxville, Tennessee on January 9, 2015Washington (AFP) - President Barack Obama will host British Prime Minister David Cameron at the White House on Thursday and Friday to discuss a broad range of issues including counterterrorism.

David Petraeus: From military rock star to possible prosecution

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 12:34 PM PST

To many, US Army General David Petraeus was a rock star in uniform.

IS kills 26 in surprise attack on Iraqi Kurdish forces

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 11:49 AM PST

Iraqi policemen raise their weapons during a training session at a camp in the Bardarash district, 30 kilometres northeast of Mosul on January 10, 2015Arbil (Iraq) (AFP) - Militants from the Islamic State jihadist group launched a surprise attack on Kurdish forces in the Gwer area of north Iraq, killing 26, security officials said Saturday.

Violence fuels debate among Muslims over interpreting faith

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 11:18 AM PST

In this Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 photo, an Egyptian Muslim pauses inside Ibn-Tulun Mosque, one of the oldest mosques in Cairo, Egypt. Amid violence like the attack in Paris on a satirical newspaper over its depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, there's been increasing discussions among Muslims who say their community must re-examine their faith to modernize its interpretations and sideline extremists. There is a growing debate within Islam about whether and how to reject a radical minority that some fear is dragging them into conflict and wrecking the faith. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Ehsamy)CAIRO (AP) — After gunmen in Paris killed 12 people, Saudi Arabia's top body of Muslim clerics quickly condemned the attack and said it could have no acceptable justification. It was a signal from some of the Islamic world's strictest voices that cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were not a reason to kill the artists.

Video: Ex-Pakistan Taliban members join IS group, behead man

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 10:39 AM PST

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An online video released Saturday purports to show former militants of the Pakistani Taliban pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and beheading a man they identify as a Pakistani soldier.

Why France Failed to Prevent the Charlie Hebdo Massacre

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 09:09 AM PST

The attacks that rocked Paris over the past several days revealed how lax the French law enforcement apparatus was prior to the attacks. The three men involved in the attacks were all well-known to the ...

UN to host Libya peace talks in Geneva next week

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 08:22 AM PST

Members of the Libyan army stand on a tank as heavy black smoke rises from the city's port in the background after a fire broke during clashes against Islamist gunmen in the eastern city of Benghazi on December 23, 2014The United Nations announced Saturday a new round of peace talks in Geneva next week between Libya's warring factions, as the European Union warned the country was at a "crucial juncture". It came as fighting between troops and Islamist militia killed 13 people in eastern Libya. "This dialogue is an important opportunity for the Libyans to restore stability and prevent the country's slide towards deeper conflict and economic collapse that should not be missed," the UN mission in Libya said. UN envoy Bernardino Leon has proposed a freeze in military operations for a few days "in order to create a conducive environment for the dialogue," the UN statement said.

Paris attack rallies Islamic extremists, may boost support

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 07:32 AM PST

FILE - In this image made from amateur video recorded on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, file photo by Jordi Mir, masked gunman walk past a police officer moments after shooting him at blank range outside the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Though it is impossible to gauge in any tangible way the effect the deadly attack on a Paris newspaper will have on recruitment by extremist groups - and there is no evidence so far that it is mobilizing large numbers of would-be jihadis - experts believe the perceived professionalism of the brothers' assault and their subsequent showdown with police could rally more supporters to militant ranks. (AP Photo/Jordi Mir, File) NO SALESBEIRUT (AP) — The militant chatter spread like wildfire. Within minutes of news breaking about the deadly terror attack on a Paris newspaper this week, supporters of extremist Islamic groups extolled the suspects in the massacre as "lions of the caliphate" and praised the killings on social media.

Syrian opposition groups divided over Moscow peace talks

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 06:58 AM PST

BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian opposition group announced Saturday it will attend a proposed peace conference in Moscow later this month, further highlighting the splits between those opposing President Bashar Assad's government amid the country's grinding civil war.

Turkish Marxist group withdraws claim for Istanbul attack

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 06:31 AM PST

Police stand guard on a street leading to a police station where a female suicide bomber and a policeman were killed on January 6, 2015, in the main tourist district of central IstanbulA banned radical Turkish Marxist group retracted its claim for a suicide bombing in the heart of Istanbul's tourist district, raising Saturday the possibility of a jihadist link to the attack that left one policeman and the bomber dead. Reports earlier this week suggested Tuesday's attack was carried out by a Russian woman from the Muslim Caucasus region of Dagestan, and not the female bomber that the far-left militant group initially said had executed the strike. "The attack on January 6 in Sultanahmet... was not carried out by our organisation," the Marxist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C) said in a statement on its website. Doubts were first raised when the mother of the suicide bomber named by the DHKP-C -- Elif Sultan Kalsen -- was taken to identify the corpse and said it was not her daughter.

U.S.-led air strikes focus on Kobani, Syria: U.S. military

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 06:22 AM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American-led forces launched 12 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria since Friday, all but one of them near the contested city of Kobani, the U.S. military said. The strikes near Kobani hit two large Islamic State units and destroyed 15 of its fighting positions, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement Saturday. They also destroyed an Islamic State building and one tactical unit, it said. Another strike in Syria, near al Hasakah, destroyed two Islamic State guard facilities, the statement said. U.S. ...

Bomb found outside Istanbul shopping centre

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 05:18 AM PST

A police officer stands guard along a street after a female suicide bomber was killed on January 6, 2015, when she blew herself up in IstanbulTurkish police on Saturday defused a bomb outside a shopping centre in Istanbul, with the city on a high security alert following a suicide bombing earlier this week. The homemade device was found in a suspect package in front of a shopping centre in the western suburb of Basaksehir after a passer-by raised the alarm, the official Anatolia news agency reported. In another security alert Saturday, police detonated in controlled explosion gas cannisters that had been found in a suspicious package in the suburb of Sefakoy, Anatolia said. The female suicide bomber and a policeman were killed in Tuesday's bombing in the Sultanahmet district, the location of most of the biggest historic tourist attractions in Istanbul.

2 headless bodies found in Egypt's Sinai

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 05:11 AM PST

Egypt's military has launched a widespread offensive against jihadist groups in the Sinai PeninsulaTwo headless bodies were found in a village in Egypt's restive North Sinai region on Saturday, police said, the latest in a series of beheadings allegedly carried out by jihadists. Egypt's deadliest jihadist organisation, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, has previously claimed several beheadings of men it said were working for the Egyptian army or Israel's Mossad spy agency. The Sinai-based group, which last year pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, has regularly released video footage showing the executions of alleged informants, often by beheading. Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem) has targeted Egyptian security forces since the army ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.

AP source: US weighs criminal charges for Petraeus

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 04:30 AM PST

File-This April 9, 2008, file photo shows Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. A U.S. official says the Justice Department is weighing bringing criminal charges against the former CIA Director over the handling of classified information. The official says investigators have presented senior-level Justice Department officials such as Attorney General Eric Holder with information on the case to make a decision. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is weighing bringing criminal charges against former CIA Director David Petraeus over the handling of classified information, a U.S. official said Friday night. Investigators have presented senior-level Justice Department officials such as Attorney General Eric Holder with information on the case to help inform a decision on charging the former four-star general, the official said.

2 bombings kill 8 people in Iraq

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 03:47 AM PST

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say two separate bombings on commercial streets have killed eight people in and around Baghdad.

Soccer-Asian Nations Finals group stage results and standings

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 02:53 AM PST

Jan 10 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Asian Nations Finals Group Stage matches on Saturday Group A Saturday, January 10South Korea 1 Oman 0 Group A Friday, January 9Australia 4 Kuwait 1 Group B Saturday, January 10Saudi Arabia 0 China 1 Uzbekistan 1 North Korea 0 Standings P W D L F A Pts Group A1 Australia 1 1 0 0 4 1 3 2 South Korea 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 3 Oman 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 4 Kuwait 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 Group B1 China 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 Uzbekistan 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 3 North Korea 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 Saudi Arabia 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Group C1 Iran 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 United Arab Emirates 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ...

Today in History

Posted: 09 Jan 2015 09:00 PM PST

Today is Saturday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2015. There are 355 days left in the year.

Two arrested after Australia anti-terror raids

Posted: 09 Jan 2015 07:25 PM PST

A file photo of Sydney's central business district skyline, pictured on December 18, 2013Sydney (AFP) - Two men have been arrested after counter-terrorism raids in Sydney, Australian officials said, following long-running investigations into those backing fighters involved in conflicts such as in Syria and Iraq.

US issues global travel warning after terror attacks

Posted: 09 Jan 2015 06:48 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has issued a global travel warning after recent terror attacks in France, Australia and Canada.

U.S. prosecutors recommend criminal charges against Petraeus - N.Y. Times

Posted: 09 Jan 2015 06:12 PM PST

CIA Director David Petraeus (L) speaks to members of a Senate (Select) Intelligence hearing on "World Wide Threats" on Capitol Hill in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI and Justice Department prosecutors have recommended bringing criminal charges against former CIA chief David Petraeus for improperly providing classified information to a female Army Reserve officer with whom he was having an affair, the New York Times reported on Friday. The newspaper cited officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Justice Department investigation focuses on whether Petraeus gave the woman, Paula Broadwell, access to his CIA email account and other highly classified information. The Times said officials have recommended felony charges. ...

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