Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he will go ahead with plans to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by year's end, despite growing opposition over security concerns following the Paris attacks.

"We must respect our election promise... to safely host 25,000 refugees by January 1. We will make every effort to do so," Trudeau told reporters as he travelled to the Philippines for an APEC summit.

U.S. police on Tuesday met a British Airways jet in Boston to arrest a female passenger who faces charges after trying to open the exit door mid-flight from London, officials said.

Flight BA 213 landed at Boston Logan Airport at around 1:30 pm (1830 GMT) following a six and a half hour journey from London Heathrow.

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday called for a pause in a White House program to settle Syrian refugees in America, citing security fears following the Paris attacks.

The top Republican lawmaker joined half of U.S. state governors in urging President Barack Obama to suspend the scheme, calling for a full review of the vetting process to ensure that would-be attackers do not slip into the country among the refugees.

French President Francois Hollande will meet U.S. counterpart Barack Obama in Washington on November 24 and then Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow two days later to discuss the fight against the Islamic State group after the Paris attacks, his office said.

Hollande said in a speech Monday that he wanted to meet the leaders in the coming days to strengthen international coordination against IS, which has claimed responsibility for the carnage in the French capital.

At least 16 people were killed and more than 100 hundred injured on Tuesday when a train derailed in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, administration and railway officials said.

The accident occurred near Quetta city, the provincial capital, after the train's brakes failed as it sped down the side of a mountain, officials told AFP.

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered the Russian navy in the Mediterranean to establish contact with its French counterparts and work together "as allies" in a campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria

Putin instructed his military to work out a joint Russian-French action plan against IS militants as he pushes the idea of establishing a broad anti-IS coalition that would involve both Russia and the West.

Sudanese government delegates have arrived in Ethiopia for African Union-mediated peace talks with rebels aimed at stopping civil war, AU officials said Tuesday.

Rebel factions from the war-torn western Darfur region as well as the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), fighting the government in the southern Blue Nile and South Kordofan states since 2011, are due to attend.

A French jihadist named Fabien Clain made the audio recording of the Islamic State group statement claiming the Paris attacks that was published online, a source close to the investigation told AFP.

The 35-year-old is a veteran of radical Islamist networks in the southern French city of Toulouse and was close to Mohamed Merah who shot dead seven people, including three Jewish children, in 2012.

British police on Tuesday said they had detained two men for terrorism offenses as they tried to leave the country, adding that the arrests were not linked to attacks in Paris.

Police said the men, aged 22 and 20, were arrested early on Sunday at Dover Eastern Docks, a ferry terminal in southeast England and a popular departure point for ships heading to the port city of Calais, France.

Iran's army conducted exercises Tuesday close to its border with Afghanistan designed to simulate how it would respond if "terrorist groups" such as the Islamic State organization mounted an attack.

The operation in the northeastern province of Khorasan came a day after a military commander said IS would be "neutralized" if it breached a 40 kilometer (25 mile) zone approaching Iran's borders.