United States to host ASEAN leaders next year

US President Barack Obama says certain conditions in TPP are to ensure partners put in place measures to prevent activities linked to human trafficking.

A third body was found in a badly-damaged apartment block where the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks was killed in a ferocious shootout with police, prosecutors said Friday…

The USA president also said his mission to Asia was not a “distraction” as suggested by a newspaper headline back in the United States.

After all, Obama said, it is the Islamic State that is alleged to have brought down a Russian passenger plane in Egypt last month, killing 224 people.

“We will not allow these killers to have a safe haven”, Obama said.

“We do not succumb to fear”. Having secured a veto-proof majority in the House, supporters are now hoping for a repeat in the U.S. Senate, while Obama works to shift the conversation to milder visa waiver changes that wouldn’t affect Syrian refugees.

“We should see how we can enhance our cooperation at the regional and global level, including through support for adoption of the Comprehensive Convention on worldwide Terrorism”, Modi said at the ASEAN-India Summit here.

Speaking at the Asean summit Sunday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also urged Russian Federation and the U.S.to cooperate in rooting out terrorism and said he would unveil a comprehensive plan to fight extremism and violence early next year.

Still, the U.S. House passed legislation last week essentially blocking Syrian and Iraqi refugees from the U.S. Democrats in large numbers abandoned the president, with 47 voting for the legislation. “They are terrorists and should be confronted as such, with the full force of the law”, Najib said in a stirring speech that repeatedly emphasized the tolerance of Islam.

Obama’s visit to the migrant center was planned long before recent terrorist attacks sparked a renewed debate over his plan to take in more than 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year.

He concluded his address by saying that India shares the vision of the East Asia Summit to focus on strategic political, economic and security concerns in the region. Later, as he met with older refugees who will soon relocate to the US, he said these children “deserve love and protection and stability and an education”.

As Obama spoke in the Malaysian capital, other Western leaders were stepping up their rhetoric against IS, while the European diplomatic hub of Brussels remained under the highest threat level for the second day in a row.

The president also invited all Asean leaders to the USA next year, insisting that good ties with Asian nations were “absolutely critical” to US security.

Before departing for Washington on Sunday, Obama planned to meet separately with the leaders of Laos and Singapore.