French hold suspect in Paris attacks
PARIS – A French judicial official and French police say a 29-year-old man has been arrested and is being held for questioning about the deadly Nov. 13 attacks in Paris.
The man was arrested Tuesday morning at his home in Villiers-Sur-Marne, an eastern suburb of Paris, said Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office. She refused to identify him and provided no further information about his suspected link to the attacks that killed 130 people.
Two police officials also confirmed the arrest.
The man can be held for questioning for up to six days before being charged or freed.
UN meeting on Syria civil war scheduled
MOSCOW (AP) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday accepted Russia’s long-standing demand that President Bashar Assad’s future be determined by his own people, as Washington and Moscow edged toward putting aside years of disagreement over how to end Syria’s civil war.
“The United States and our partners are not seeking so-called regime change,” Kerry told reporters in the Russian capital after meeting President Vladimir Putin. A major international conference on Syria would take place later this week in New York, Kerry announced.
Kerry reiterated the U.S. position that Assad, accused by the West of massive human rights violations and chemical weapons attacks, won’t be able to steer Syria out of more than four years of conflict.
But after a day of discussions with Assad’s key international backer, Kerry said the focus now is “not on our differences about what can or cannot be done immediately about Assad.” Rather, it is on facilitating a peace process in which “Syrians will be making decisions for the future of Syria.”
Associated Press
