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TERROR WARS
Kurds burst into EU parliament to protest Islamic State
by Staff Writers
Brussels (AFP) Oct 07, 2014


Catholic cardinals to meet on Iraq, Syria crises
Vatican City (AFP) Oct 07, 2014 - Roman Catholic cardinals from around the world will meet on October 20 to discuss the conflicts in Iraq and Syria where jihadist forces threaten Christians and other minorities, the Vatican said on Tuesday.

The meeting at the Vatican, known as a consistory, is the highest-level decision-making event that a pope can convene and usually deals with appointing new cardinals and considering dossiers for sainthood.

But Pope Francis, who last month described the jihadist upsurge as a "World War III in piecemeal", wants Middle East issues to top the agenda.

Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said the cardinals would review recommendations by papal ambassadors, or nuncios, to the region who met with Francis at the Vatican last month.

They called on the international community not to remain "inert" in the face of "the massacre of people solely because of their religious and ethnic affiliation", and spoke out against the "decapitation and crucifixion of human beings" as well as the destruction of places of worship and the displacement of thousands of people.

They also called for a "military response" as well as efforts to address the root causes of extremist ideology through dialogue and education.

A Franciscan priest and 20 other Christians were seized overnight Sunday by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front in a village in northwestern Syria.

Dozens of Kurdish demonstrators burst into the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday to protest the Islamic State group's attack on the town of Kobane on Syria's border with Turkey.

Brandishing Kurdish flags and effigies of their jailed separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan, the men and women broke through a police barrier to enter the hall of the building.

They staged a sit-in while several European members of parliament came to meet with them.

"We will fight Islamic State," the head of the socialist group in parliament, Gianni Pittella, told the protesters, drawing applause.

European Parliament President Martin Schulz said he met with the group's leaders and told them to end their protest peacefully.

But he also told them he fully shared their concerns about the situation for civilians in Kobane as well as that more broadly in Syria and Iraq, and promised to convey their message to NATO.

"I reiterated the support of the European Parliament for the international coalition fighting against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq," he said.

Kurds also continued their protests across France on Tuesday, including around 500 people who gathered outside the foreign ministry in Paris calling for "solidarity with the Kurdish resistance".

"Our people are facing a massacre, a genocide. It is no longer time for debate, there must be a reaction now," one of the organisers told the crowd.

Marseilles saw its fourth Kurdish demonstration in just 10 days, with an estimated 1,500 people taking to the streets. There were smaller protests in Nice, Bourdeaux and Toulouse.

Turkey warned on Tuesday that the Islamic State was on the verge of seizing Kobane even as US and Arab warplanes launched fresh strikes on IS positions near the Kurdish town.

The Kurdish protest in what is supposed to be a secure area occurred while confirmation hearings were taking place for the new team headed by incoming European Commission chief Jean Claude Juncker.

The parliament's security services said they would open a probe into the incident.

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