At this week‘s summit on combating violent extremists, President Barack Obama hopes to concoct ways to battle a threat made newly relevant by attacks in Western Europe, Canada and Australia.

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(7.Januar 2015) A source familiar with the investigation told NBC News on Wednesday night that two officers who had been assigned to protect editor and cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier for the past several years came down from an upper floor and intercepted the gunmen. Both officers were shot, however, and one died at the scene. The other was wounded and is expected to survive.

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Classmates at lycée Monge de Charleville had protested Mourad’s innocence since hearing that turned himself in to the police after seeing his name mentioned on social media and news channels at around 11pm on the day of the murders.

A teenager who tweeted with the handle @babydroma said that Mourad was in her philosophy class. She said: “Please, he was in [school] all morning, he’s in my class.”

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Petro Poroshenko and Angela Merkel have condemned the violation of the ceasefire regime in Debaltseve. „It is a cynical attack on the Minsk agreements,“ President Poroshenko has noted. He has urged the European Union and the entire international community to firmly respond to the perfidious actions of militants and Russia.

„Today, the world must stop the aggressor. I call on the permanent members of the UN Security Council to prevent further violation of fundamental principles and rules of the UN and the unleashing of a full-scale warfare in the very center of Europe,“ the Head of State has emphasized.

Putins ukrainischer Kollege Petro Poroschenko nannte den Vorstoß der Rebellen in Debalzewe dagegen einen „zynischen Angriff“ auf die vereinbarte Waffenruhe. Er habe sich in einem Telefongespräch mit der deutschen Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel dafür ausgesprochen, dass der UNO-Sicherheitsrat weitere Verstöße gegen das Abkommen verhindere, hieß es in einer Erklärung am Abend.

Journalist David Ignatius: Obama suspects Netanyahu authorized leaks of details about the nuclear talks with Iran.
By Elad Benari

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday criticized the Obama administration over its decision to limit the amount of information it shares with Israel regarding the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran, fearing leaks.

Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah called on Tuesday upon the United States to pressure the Israeli government to release the $130 million in tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.
Hamdallah’s remarks came as he met with the White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, Philip Gordon, in the Prime Minister‘s office in Ramallah.

Following almost nine months of negotiations between Turkey and the U.S., NATO allies reached an agreement on training and equipping moderate Syrian opposition groups that fight to topple the regime of President Bashar Assad, Daily Sabah reported.

The President called new Italian President Sergio Mattarella today to offer congratulations on his recent election. The two leaders reaffirmed the deep and abiding ties between the United States and Italy. They agreed that the U.S. and Italian governments will remain in close coordination to address shared challenges.

Italian premier wants United Nations to take leadership role

Ägyptens Präsident Abdel Fattah el-Sisi bedrängt die Vereinten Nationen. Der Staatschef forderte den Uno-Sicherheitsrat auf, über eine Intervention in Libyen nachzudenken.

Danish intelligence chief Jens Madsen acknowledged that El-Hussein had been „on the radar“ of his services.

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