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 'The Baghdad Eucharist' by Sinan Antoon, translated by Maia Tabet (Hoopoe, American University in Cairo Press, 136 pages, $15)

French police have arrested four people suspected of planning imminent terror attacks in Paris, French TV channel TF1  reported on Wednesday.  

Three men and one women were arrested at dawn in Paris and the nearby suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis.

French domestic security service DGSI had files on the four suspects for links to radical Islam, TF1 said on its website.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) on Sept. 24 shot down a warplane from the U.S.-led coalition over northern Syria, a monitoring group said, with the jihadists claiming to have captured a Jordanian pilot.