EU to tighten passport checks in Schengen zone after Paris attacks

1. Fresh Saudi airstrikes on Yemen’s Sa'ada province kill at least ten civilians as thousands in the capital Sana’a protest a recent arms deal between the US and Saudi Arabia.

2. Malian officials say gunmen are holding no more people in a hotel in the capital Bamako, where the assailants took scores of hostages including many foreigners.

3. France says the EU is set to present a plan for major changes to the rules of the passport-free Schengen zone in the wake of the recent terror attacks in Paris.

4. Fresh clashes break out between Israeli forces and Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank. Several Palestinians have been injured.

5. And Iran’s volunteer force Basij holds large-scale military drills. Military commanders say safeguarding the Islamic Revolution is one of the messages of the exercises.

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