Investigators are analyzing the vest, which was found in the Paris suburb of Montrouge, near where Abdeslam’s cell phone was traced on the night of the attacks, Molins said. He spoke after a week of intense diplomacy capped by the French president’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It has also gained a reputation as America’s most hard ally.
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ISIS has claimed responsibility for the brutal November 13 attacks that killed 130 people in Paris, as well as the Halloween bombing of a Russian passenger jet over Egypt that killed 224.
After a working dinner between the two presidents, Mr Hollande seems confident.
Any efforts to form an alliance that includes both Russian Federation and the United States are likely to run into thorny issues – like Assad’s future role in Syria and global sanctions against Moscow for its interference in Ukraine.
In the wake of Turkey’s shootdown of a Russian warplane over Syria on Tuesday Moscow has lashed out at Ankara, accusing it of buying oil from IS and supporting terrorist groups there. Russian Federation has agreed in principle to a new process that would lead to U.N.-supervised elections within 18 months but continues to oppose efforts to explicitly remove Assad. Certainly no one expected ISIS, a terror group from a far corner of the world, to be able to carry out the largest attack on a Western city since 9/11, killing more than 129 people.
“But we’re also supporting the army of President Assad”. The cerebral Obama said “this underscores the importance of us making sure that we move this political track forward.’ The visceral Hollande said, ‘The only goal is to fight against terrorism” and the Islamic State.
On Friday, aides to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Turkish and Russian leaders could meet at a climate summit in Paris next week.
Since Saturday morning, Brussels – home to the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation headquarters – had been wary of a threat that was considered “serious and imminent”. They’ve already taken the lives of British hostages and inspired the worst terrorist attack against British people since 7/7 (July 7, 2005) on the beaches of Tunisia.
The Paris attacks have raised fears in Europe and the US that terrorists might try to sneak into the West as part of the refugee flow. So I’m in no doubt that it is in our national interest for action to be taken to stop them.
Cameron said he would not call a parliamentary vote on the strikes unless he was sure of a clear majority in favor.
Some politicians, such as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, remain vehemently opposed. “We must deploy our forces to destroy them, and surely we must coordinate our efforts”, he told press conference in Berlin after meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Hours earlier, Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said Germany would send 650 soldiers to Mali to provide some relief to French forces fighting extremists there.
“France has been rocked to the core by the bad attacks by IS. We will be able to confirm what happened in part through our own Intelligence and our own tracking of that border area”, he said. “Today we stand with you”.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he supports France’s proposal to shut down the Turkish-Syrian border as a way to fight Islamic State fighters in Syria. “We can do this, ‘” Obama said. But he turned defensive when he reminded everybody that a 65-nation coalition has been fighting the Islamic State “for more than a year”, and he recited its “progress”.
