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French authorities have named a 27-year old Belgian man as the "mastermind" behind Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris, as well as other incidents around Europe.  Abdelhamid Abaaoud comes from the Molenbeek district of Brussels, now coming under a lot of scrutiny because of its connection to several jihadists.  He's believed to be in Syria.  Authorities have linked Abaaoud to the failed attack on a French train in August, thwarted by three quick-thinking US soldiers who beat the living crap out of the would-be terrorist before anyone else was hurt. 

Police in Germany arrested a man who allegedly told asylum-seekers about an imminent attack in Paris in the days before the violence that killed 129 people.  The man, an Algerian, reportedly warned asylum seekers at shelter in the town of Arnsberg about "fear and terror" and possibly a bomb in the French capital.  "There is currently an investigation into whether the man is an accomplice or a confidant," said one local official.  

Police in Brussels questioned and released Mohammed Abdeslam.  His brothers are terrorism suspect Salah Abdeslam, who police say took part in Friday's attacks; and Brahim Abdeslam, who blew himself up with a suicide bomb at the Bataclan theater.  "We don't know where he is at the moment," he said of Salah, and insisted that the family had no idea what the brothers were planning.  Abdeslam claims his "parents are in shock and don't realize what happened."

Environmental activists want to go ahead with a massive rally ahead of the world climate talks in Paris.  Demonstrations are banned in France under the state of emergency that followed the 13 November terrorist attacks.  Campaigners from Avaaz, Greenpeace and 350.org say they will "hold all the mobilizations currently planned" - that includes a march on 29 November, the day before world leaders meet to discuss the raidly warming world climate.  Nicolas Haeringer of 350.org said the activists would discuss with French authorities how to move forward, saying "we can think of few better responses to violence and terror than this movement's push for peace and hope."

Two weeks after the dam burst in Brazil's Minas Gerais state, a quarter-million people still don't have access to clean drinking water.  Two dams at a mine co-owned by Australia's BHP-Billiton collapsed, sending 15.8 billion gallons of orange-colored, waste-laden water and sludge downstream.  "It's already clear wildlife is being killed by this mud," said geo-sciences professor Klemens Laschesfki of the Federal University of Minas Gerais.  "To say the mud is not a health risk is overly simplistic."

In Japan, police say a Yakuza boss from the Yamaguchi-gumi gang was found bound and bludgeoned to death in his home east of Osaka.  And they're worried that it could be the opening salvo in a feared gang war.  Several cliques broke off of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest organized crime syndicate, earlier this year in a bitter dispute over money and favoritism among the gangs.

Actor Charlie Sheen is expected to make a "revealing personal announcement" on the Today show on America's NBC network.  Several sources are reporting that he will disclose that he is HIV-positive, and timing the announcement to beat a tabloid report of a multi-million dollar cover-up and the possible exposure of dozens of women.  Sheen was once television's highest-paid sitcom actor on "Two and a Half Men", from which he got canned during his infamous drugs and alcohol-fueled meltdown.

Hundreds of Mormons are now ex-Mormons, having left the Salt Lake City-based religion in a massive rally over the weekend.  The protesters are disgusted with the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) intolerant new rule, which declares that married same-sex couples were apostates and that their children could not be blessed or baptized until they are 18 - and only if they renounce same-sex marriage.  This follows similar mass resignations in 2012 and 2014.