 | | A sign reading "school closed" in Brussels today. Francois Lenoir/Reuters | Your Monday Briefing By VICTORIA SHANNON |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Support for France. |
| Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, in Paris today with the French president, François Hollande, said he will seek Parliament's approval this week to join bombings in Syria. |
| Mr. Hollande is pressing other national leaders to support his campaign to obliterate the Islamic State militants, meeting with President Obama in Washington on Tuesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in Paris on Wednesday and the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, at the Kremlin on Thursday. |
| • Brussels lockdown and raids. |
| Sixteen people were arrested in a joint police and military operation in Belgium, officials said today, in an effort to head off a "serious and imminent" threat of a Paris-style terrorist assault. |
| Belgian security forces conducted 19 raids in the Brussels region on Sunday and three in the southern town of Charleroi. |
| Schools and subways remain closed in Belgium today, with the nation's threat level at the highest possible. |
| • Politics and Syria at home. |
| After a 10-day trip abroad, President Obama is back in Washington, where the Senate is expected to take action after the Thanksgiving recess on a bill passed by the House last week raising screening requirements for Syrian and Iraqi refugees coming into the U.S. |
| Republican presidential candidates like Marco Rubio and Chris Christie turned up their criticism over the weekend of the administration's plan to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. next year. |
| • ISIS intelligence inquiry. |
| Mr. Obama, before leaving Malaysia, said he had ordered his senior defense officials to find out whether intelligence reports had been altered to reflect a more optimistic assessment of the American military campaign against the Islamic State. |
| • A new start in Argentina. |
| The victory by Mauricio Macri, 56, the mayor of Buenos Aires, in the presidential election was seen as an affront to the departing president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who followed her late husband into office. They led the nation for a combined 12 years. |
| Many voters chose Mr. Macri based on concern over the economy and frustration with Mrs. Kirchner's attacks on the news media, business establishments and rival political parties. |
| • Music video filming turns violent. |
| At least 10 people were taken to the hospital after a shooting at a park in New Orleans where a music video was being made. |
| BUSINESS |
| • Pfizer and Allergan are due to announce a $150 billion merger today, creating a huge new pharmaceutical giant and potentially helping Pfizer lower its American tax rate. |
| • Petco, which sells pet supplies in more than 1,400 stores, is likely to announce today that it will be acquired by two investment groups for $4.7 billion. The San Diego-based company had filed to go public in August. |
| • American and Chinese trade officials end three days of top-level talks today on a host of contentious issues. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are down slightly. European indexes are lower, and Asian markets ended mixed. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • John Bel Edwards defeated his opponent, Senator David Vitter, by a wide margin on Saturday to be elected governor of Louisiana, in a race that many Democrats once considered hopeless. |
| • A landslide near jade mines in northern Myanmar has killed more than 100 people, and as many as 200 others were missing. |
| • Three protesters were killed in the violence in southern Nepal, and at least 28 were hurt, including 15 police officers. |
| • The final installment of the "Hunger Games" series was the North American movie box office winner. |
| • Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for "Homeland," "The Affair," "The Leftovers," "The Knick" and "The Walking Dead." |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Pop music kings and queens. |
| One Direction won the top award at Sunday's American Music Awards, but Justin Bieber's new album, "Purpose," debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard charts today. |
| At the awards ceremony, Celine Dion paid tribute to the victims of the recent Paris attacks by singing Edith Piaf's "Hymne à L'Amour" in French as some audience members cried. |
| But it is Adele's new album, "25," that seems set to sell at least 2.5 million in its first week, the highest weekly sales for any album in the U.S. since at least 1991. |
| • The N.F.L.'s undefeated. |
| The Buffalo Bills give the New England Patriots a chance to retain their undefeated status on Monday Night Football. |
| The Carolina Panthers did just that on Sunday, beating the Washington Redskins. |
| • And then there were three. |
| Only three northern white rhinos remain after a 41-year-old northern white rhino named Nola with serious health issues was euthanized at the San Diego Zoo. |
| The surviving rhinos live under armed guard in Kenya. The northern white rhinoceros is said to be the most endangered animal on earth, following widespread poaching in Africa. |
| BACK STORY |
| The fight over genetically modified salmon isn't over yet, despite last week's approval by the Food and Drug Administration. |
| Today, the public can start submitting comments on the agency's guidelines for labeling the faster-growing fish, which is optional, and other genetically altered food. |
| Considering the salmon debate drew nearly 2 million comments — the most the agency has ever had on one issue — labeling is likely to be a hot-button issue too. |
| In any event, it'll be two years before the transgenic salmon are ready for the grocery store. |
| If you can find them. Safeway, Kroger and Whole Foods are among the chains, representing 9,000 locations, that say they won't carry the fish. |
| The Atlantic salmon, to be bred in land-based tanks in Canada and Panama by the Massachusetts company AquaBounty Technologies, will have genes that make them grow fast. |
| Instead of taking three years before they are market-size, these fish will be ready at 16 to 18 months, due to the genes added from the Pacific Chinook salmon and an eel-like fish called the pout. |
| Salmon are the first transgenic animal to get F.D.A.'s okay. Pigs altered to produce a more healthy bacon are likely to be proposed next. |
| Your Morning Briefing is published weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern and updated on the web all morning. |
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