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[…]
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[…]
Firebombs and pig heads thrown into mosques. Veiled women subjected to crude insults in the street. The Internet awash with threats against Muslims. Europe’s Muslims are feeling the heat of a fierce backlash following last week’s terror attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. A climate of fear is taking[…]
As many as six members of a terrorist cell involved in the Paris attacks may still be at large, including a man who was seen driving a car registered to the widow of one of the gunmen, police officials said Monday. Two French police officials also told The Associated Press[…]
The Syrian government has accused Turkey of allowing “terrorists” to freely cross the border after Ankara said the common-law wife of one of the Paris attackers entered Syria from Turkey earlier this month. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Monday that the woman, Hayat Boumedienne, arrived in Turkey from Madrid[…]
An estimated 3.7 million people joined by dozens of world leaders have marched across France in honour of the 17 people killed in attacks in Paris, according to the country’s interior ministry. In Paris, up 1.6 million took part in Sunday’s rally, among them family members of the 12 people[…]
Paris was preparing Sunday to host hundreds of thousands of people and more than 40 world leaders for a march honouring the 17 victims killed in the attacks that rocked France this week. Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said that the event will show France’s “love of liberty and tolerance”[…]
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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