 | | Flowers and candles outside Café Bonne Bière in Paris. Tomas Munita for The New York Times | Your Monday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Assaults on Syria intensify. |
| U.S. warplanes today joined the French in assaults on Syria after terrorist attacks linked to the Islamic State militant group killed at least 129 people in France on Friday. |
| A cell in Belgium helped carry out the attacks, the French authorities say. Evidence suggests that one of the eight attackers had visited Syria, the stronghold of the Islamic State. |
| More than 160 raids across France overnight resulted in the arrest of 23 individuals, the interior minister said today. |
| At noon local time, France paused for a moment of silence for the victims. We are following the day's developments with live updates. |
| • The impact on Syrian refugees. |
| European Union talks about the flow of refugees has shifted sharply to security over compassion, after officials said one of the assailants in Friday's attacks entered Europe as a Syrian migrant. |
| Europe's foreign ministers meet today in Brussels to discuss Syria and the migration crisis. |
| The Obama administration is continuing with its plan to resettle up to 10,000 Syrian refugees across the U.S. next year. |
| • Group of 20 adjourns. |
| Mr. Obama may hold a news conference today at the end of the Group of 20 summit meeting in Turkey before leaving for the four-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Manila. |
| Senior White House officials have ruled out the introduction of substantial numbers of American ground troops in Iraq and Syria, where the Islamic State holds territory. |
| • Campaign shift. |
| The U.S. presidential candidates are maneuvering for political advantage as national security rises to voters' attention after the Paris attacks. |
| The fight against global terrorism also became a focus of the Democratic debate on Saturday. |
| • The day before the Paris attacks. |
| A global outpouring of grief belatedly followed assaults that killed 43 civilians in Beirut, Lebanon, in a double suicide bombing on Thursday attributed to Islamic State militants. |
| No such solidarity was expressed at the time of the attack. |
| BUSINESS |
| • The Japanese economy entered a recession in the third quarter, government data showed today. |
| Worsening business confidence appeared to be behind the 0.8 percent annualized rate of decline, worse than economists had expected. |
| • The main French stock index turned flat by midday after opening with a loss of 1 percent. |
| Travel and tourism companies took a hit, though, with shares in Air France-KLM down nearly 6 percent and the French hotel group Accor off 5 percent. |
| Over all, European markets were higher. Asian indexes ended mostly lower. |
| Wall Street stock futures indicate a slight gain when trading opens. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear its first major abortion case since 2007, one that could revise the constitutional principles governing abortion rights. |
| • Nearly 1,500 Mormons took part in a mass resignation from their church to protest a new policy barring children of married same-sex couples from being baptized until they are adults. |
| • A Justice Department study concluded that black Americans are more than twice as likely as white Americans to experience nonfatal force or the threat of force from the police. |
| • Five Ukrainian soldiers were killed in 24 hours in fighting in eastern Ukraine, the highest death toll since a cease-fire with pro-Russian separatists began two months ago. Another was killed Sunday. |
| • Spike Lee rebuked Hollywood for its lack of racial diversity while accepting an honorary Oscar. |
| • The James Bond film "Spectre" was again the weekend box office winner in North America. |
| • Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for "Homeland," "The Affair," "The Leftovers," "The Knick" and "The Walking Dead." |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • This time, Patriots stun Giants. |
| A 54-yard field goal with one second left kept New England's perfect season going as they beat their Super Bowl nemesis, 27-26. Here are all the Week 10 scores and highlights. |
| And the unbeaten Cincinnati Bengals host the Houston Texans tonight (8:30 Eastern, ESPN). |
| On campus, No. 12 Oklahoma defeated No. 4 Baylor, 44-34, ending the Bears' 20-game winning streak — and, most likely, their chances of making the playoffs. |
| • Literary spotlight. |
| A previously unknown poem written by a young Charlotte Brontë, the author of "Jane Eyre," is heading to the Brontë museum in England. |
| And in a move to extend the copyright, "The Diary of Anne Frank" is gaining a "co-author." |
| • Just for chuckles. |
| A 16-page insert of classic comic strips that appeared in hundreds of U.S. newspapers Sunday is available online today. |
| • No ordinary word. |
| The Oxford Dictionaries' International Word of the Year is unveiled today. Last year's word? "Vape." |
| BACK STORY |
| The original Coca-Cola bottle patent (No. 48,160) turns 100 today. |
| In the early 1900s, soda bottles all looked the same, and copycat brands were using Coca-Cola's famous script logo to horn in on customers. |
| The company, which had started making Coke in 1886, decided it needed a distinctive bottle as a marketing tool to distinguish it from rivals. |
| When Coca-Cola's bottlers announced a design competition for glassmakers in 1915, they asked for "a bottle so distinct that you would recognize if by feel in the dark or lying broken on the ground." |
| The winner was a bottle that had its curvy shape modeled after the cacao pod. While cocoa was the main ingredient in chocolate, it was not in the soft drink, something the bottle designer did not realize. |
| But the design was a little too wide, which might have made it wobbly. Instead, a slimmer model, which has evolved since then, became what the world drank from for decades. |
| The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office gave the bottle trademark status, rare for packaging, in 1961. |
| It's nostalgia in a bottle. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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