France is looking at the sophisticated propaganda, indoctrination and other methods used to recruit terrorists, including social media and video games, as part of its wide-ranging campaign to eradicate “the devastating force of terrorism,” the country’s justice minister said Tuesday. Christiane Taubira told an open meeting of the U.N. Security[…]
Fifteen people have been detained for planning a terrorist attack on policemen in Belgium, authorities said Friday, while warning the public to remain vigilant. “I think we gave an important blow to terrorism in Belgium,” prosecution spokesman Eric Van der Sypt said. “[But] nobody can really predict what’s going to[…]
Pakistani students are clashing with police during protests against the French satirical magazine that was attacked last week for publishing images of the Prophet Muhammad. The clashes broke out Friday afternoon when the protesters started heading toward the French consulate in the southern port city of Karachi. The protesters began[…]
French President Francois Hollande insisted Thursday that any anti-Muslim or anti-Semitic acts must be “severely punished,” as he sought to calm rising religious tensions after his country’s bloodiest radical attacks in decades. With 120,000 security forces deployed to prevent future attacks, nerves jumped overnight when a car rammed into a[…]
Charlie Hebdo has made a defiant return with a new issue that sold out across France in record time, as al-Qaeda posted a video claiming last week’s deadly attack on its cartoonists. The satirical weekly once again featured what the artists said was the Prophet Muhammad on its cover, but[…]
French President Francois Hollande has pledged that his country will “never yield” to “terror” while honouring three police officers killed during the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper. He pinned France’s highest decoration, the Legion of Honour, on coffins draped in flag of France in Paris on Tuesday as[…]
France is mobilising 10,000 troops to boost security, as security forces search for what the French prime minister called a “probable” accomplice to three days of bloodshed in and around the capital. After a crisis meeting on Monday, Manuel Valls said the search is urgent because “the threat is still[…]
The Muslim Judicial council has spoken out in condemnation against the recent attacks in France, more particularly on French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo last Wednesday. Spokesperson Nabeweyah Malick said that as the MJC they condemned in the fullest sense the killing of 12 innocent French nationals, amongst them several journalists[…]
Police negotiators are trying to launch a dialogue with the Charlie Hebdo shooting suspects believed to be holed up in an industrial building north of Paris, French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet says. “The priority is to resolve this crisis in the most serene way possible, which means without violence,”[…]
A gunman took hostages at a kosher market on the eastern edges of Paris Friday, wounding several people, while the two suspects in the earlier deadly terror attack against a newspaper were cornered near Charles de Gaulle airport. Officials could not immediately confirm a link between the two, but the[…]
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