Bomb belt found on Paris street

French police were yesterday examining what appears to be a suicide bomb belt dumped on a Paris street, 10 days after the attacks that killed 130 people.

The vest was said to resemble the belts used by the attackers and was found in a dustbin by street cleaners in the Montrouge district, a suburb which a suspect is thought to have passed through after the attacks.

Meanwhile, the Belgian capital Brussels remained on high alert, and schools and the metro remained closed. They were due to reopen later today but the highest alert level is set to continue for at least another week.

Authorities in Brussels fear Paris-style attacks may be carried out in the city. At least one of the Paris attackers lived in Brussels and there were 16 anti-terror arrests in Belgium after a series of raids on Monday. Russians and others about, in terms of co-ordination to go after Daesh.”

Kerry has been pushing hard to get a ceasefire in place before the end of the year and talks started in January.

The hopes are to get talks moving towards a political transition in Syria that eventually would unseat Assad. Then, all military efforts can focus on defeating Isis in its Syrian bases.

The strategy was agreed to this month in Vienna at meetings between Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — the US, Britain, France, Russia and China.

In Abu Dhabi, Kerry met Sheikh