AP, Moscow
Details of a new Russian submarine-launched nuclear torpedo have been shown on state-controlled TV, a secret the Kremlin said should never have been aired. Some observers, however, saw it as a deliberate leak.
The airing of the video on television channels under tight Kremlin control raised suspicions that it was done intentionally to scare the West at a time when its ties with Russia are at the lowest point since the Cold War.
NTV and Channel One showed a large document – filmed over a general’s shoulder during a meeting with Putin – with drawings and details of a prospective weapons system called Status-6.
Austria to build metal fence on Slovenia border
AFP, Vienna
Austria will erect a 3.7-kilometre (2.3-mile) metal fence along its border with Slovenia to better manage the influx of migrants, with barbed wire stored nearby ready to install if needed, Vienna said Friday.
“We are talking here about an ordered inflow and not a barrier,” Chancellor Werner Faymann’s chief of staff Josef Ostermayer told reporters, two days after Slovenia began similar measures on its frontier with Croatia.
US targets ‘Jihadi John’ in Syria air strike
Reuters, Washington
The United States on Thursday carried out an air strike in Syria targeting the Islamic State militant known as “Jihadi John,” who participated in gruesome videos showing the killings of American and British hostages, officials said.
One U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the strike likely killed Mohammed Emwazi, a British citizen, but cautioned that it was too soon to make any determination.
Egypt to send Russian plane recording abroad for analysis
AFP, Cairo
A recording from Russian Airbus A321 which caught a sound before the plane disintegrated in midair will be sent abroad for analysis, Egypt’s civil aviation minister was quoted as saying Friday.
It was not immediately clear which country would receive the copy of the black box recording to analyse one of the key clues of the investigation into the October 31 disaster, which killed all 224 on board.
Palestinian dead in undercover Israeli hospital raid
Reuters, Hebron
Israeli undercover forces raided a hospital in the West Bank on Thursday, shooting dead a Palestinian during an attempt to detain another man suspected of carrying out a stabbing, the Palestinian health ministry and doctors said.
The Israeli army confirmed the raid and shooting but did not have details of the man’s condition. It said the raid was carried out to detain Azzam al-Shalalda, 27, who was suspected of stabbing an Israeli settler two weeks ago in the West Bank.
