A "belt that may resemble an explosive belt" was found Monday in the southern Paris suburb of Montrouge, sources close to the investigation said, 10 days after attacks in the capital left 130 people dead.

The object was found in a dustbin on Monday afternoon, a police source said, confirming information reported by France Info radio.

Ukraine announced Monday the suspension of goods deliveries to Crimea and threatened a tit-for-tat ban on food imports from Russia as tensions with Moscow flare over the annexed peninsula.

The Ukrainian interior minister also suggested that the government cut off power supplies to the annexed peninsula which declared a state of emergency at the weekend after its main electricity lines from Ukraine were blown up.

Swedish anti-terror prosecutors on Monday charged two men with two decapitations committed in Syria in 2013, as the judge told media the two were allegedly Islamic State members.

"The two men charged in Gothenburg district court are Swedish nationals who went to Syria to fight," chief prosecutor Agnetha Hilding Qvarnstrom said in a statement without providing any details on their identities.

At least five migrants stuck on the Greek-Macedonian border on Monday sewed their lips in protest at not being allowed to continue their journey to Europe, AFP reporters said.

The men, who say they are from Iran and threaten to go on hunger strike, have been camping on the tracks of the railroad between the two countries since Friday.

Four suspected rebels and a soldier were killed in three separate clashes Monday in Indian-administered Kashmir, authorities said. 

Government forces acting on a tip-off trapped three suspected insurgents in an alley and killed them near the town of Ashmuqam, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of the main city of Srinagar.

Anti-Muslim hate crimes rose 300 percent in Britain in the week following the coordinated attacks in Paris, according to figures published on Monday.

A "vast and overwhelming majority" of the 115 attacks were against Muslim women and girls aged between 14 and 45 who were wearing traditional Islamic dress, according to the findings reported in The Independent newspaper.

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has jailed a Shiite Muslim for 13 years after he posted what it deemed sectarian hate speech on Facebook, officials said Monday, with rights activists condemning the ruling as "extremely concerning."

Saqlain Haidar, 32, who ran a small hotel in Chiniot district south of Islamabad, was also fined 250,000 rupees ($2,300) for "posting hateful material against companions of the Prophet of Islam on Facebook," an official of the Counter Terrorism Department told AFP, requesting anonymity.

Political leaders bid farewell to former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt with a state funeral Monday, paying tribute to his steady leadership in the face of terror attacks and economic crisis.

Under tight security, Chancellor Angela Merkel, much of her cabinet, former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker gathered at the landmark Saint Michael's Church in his native port city of Hamburg with 1,800 mourners.

The OSCE on Monday took the unusual step of taking the Vatican to task, calling for the withdrawal of criminal charges against two journalists over a leaks scandal rocking the Catholic Church.

"Journalists must be free to report on issues of public interest and to protect their confidential sources," said Dunja Mijatovic, media freedom representative at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

A Libyan man bailed over the murder of a British policewoman outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984 was on Monday identified by British media as a former Libyan education minister.

Police on Thursday arrested a man in his 50s on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, and he was named by newspapers including the Sunday Mirror and Guardian as Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk.