France 24 reports world leaders have launched an ambitious attempt to hold back the earth’s rising temperatures, with French President François Hollande saying the world was at “breaking point” in the fight against global warming. Some 150 heads of state and government, including US President Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, urged each other to find common cause in two weeks of bargaining to steer the global economy away from its dependence on fossil fuels.

Sputnik reports President Putin has accused Ankara of shooting down a Russian warplane last week to protect supplies of oil from the Islamic State group to Turkey. Revenues from selling oil constitute one of the main sources of income for IS, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. Turkey has denied the Russian claim.

Islamic State militants have increased their presence in Sirte in Libya from 200 fighters at the start of the year to a force of 5,000 men. According to the Wall Street Journal, these include administrators and financiers. The report says the militant group has apparently found a new base where it can “generate oil revenue and plan terror attacks”.

The Times reports Britain is ready to start striking the headquarters of Islamic State within 48 hours after David Cameron announced a vote on extending the military campaign into Syria. The Commons vote, to be held tomorrow, comes after Jeremy Corbyn abandoned efforts to force Labour to oppose the action.

President Assad has warned terrorists could be among the Syrian refugees making their way to Europe. He told Ceska TV that there was a mix of genuine Syrian refugees and terrorists among the hordes of people trying to enter Europe. He accused France of “supporting terrorism” and said he saw Prague as a possible venue for signing any future peace deal to end his country’s four-year civil war.

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has told French radio station RTL that Europe needs a central intelligence agency to reinforce and coordinate its anti-terrorist operations as the search for the Paris attack suspects has highlighted the failure of European secret services to share information. His suggestion comes amid reports that Brussels-based Salah Abdeslam may have left the country for Syria.

Cumhuriyet reports Turkish authorities have detained 1,300 refugees who were allegedly preparing to sail to Greece. The move came a day after Turkey and EU leaders sealed a joint summit with a commitment to re-energise Turkey’s long-stalled membership bid and bolster their resolve to deal with the Syrian refugee crisis.

USA Today says the White House has announced it would add more screening for travellers allowed to enter the US without a visa. The decision comes after calls to tighten the Visa Waiver Program following the terrorist attacks in Paris.

Caijing reports the International Monetary Fund has given the Chinese yuan, also known as the renminbi, a status of reserve currency. To meet the IMF's criteria, Beijing has recently instituted multiple reforms, including better access for foreigners to Chinese currency markets, more frequent debt issuance and expanded yuan trading hours.

Le Faso announces Roch Marc Kabore, a former prime minister, has won the election to choose Burkina Faso’s first new president in decades. Provisional results show that Kabore

gained 54 per cent of the vote against 29 per cent for Zephirin Diabre, a former finance minister. Kabore won an outright majority without the need for a run-off.

Haaretz says a Jerusalem court has convicted two of three Israeli men charged for the 2014 murder of a Palestinian teenager. An adult defendant cannot officially be found guilty until an insanity plea is reviewed. In July 2014, 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir was abducted in Israel-occupied East Jerusalem. His burned body was later found in another part of the city.

La Hora reports 17 prisoners have been killed in a gang brawl inside an overcrowded Guatemalan prison, including seven who were decapitated. Officials said all were killed of machete and knife wounds. They found the heads of three men, apparently the leaders of a group, on top of a table.

Russian Police have apprehended an army deserter who hid in a forest in eastern Russia for more than a decade and kept his whereabouts secret from even his family. Pravda says the 30-year-old man was drafted into the military in 2003 and was stationed in the remote Kamchatka peninsula for one year before fleeing the army’s ranks. The search for the deserter was stopped when his family erroneously identified a dead body as that of their missing relative a few months after his disappearance.