Will French president's welcome of Syrian refugees stem fears?
Five days after 129 Parisians were killed in a terror attack last Friday, stoking a backlash against refugees and immigrants in France and other parts of the world, French President François Hollande...
View ArticleNo information on Paris suspect stop-over report: Colombia
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia has no information about a media report that a person involved in the shootings and bombings of civilians in Paris landed in Bogota in July and bribed officials to be...
View ArticleTerrorists won't stop us, says Roma coach
MILAN: Defiant Roma coach Rudi Garcia called on the players affected by the Paris attacks not to give in to the terrorists who "attacked all the things we love". Frenchman Garcia was in attendance at...
View Article"This won't stop us or frighten us"
Following the terrorist attacks on Paris, French ambassador to Iceland, Philippe O’Quin says in a video interview with mbl.is/ Iceland Monitor that the people of France will be continuing...
View ArticleObama's first stop in Paris is saddest of destinations
PARIS (AP) -- At another time, it would have been a glorious tour of Paris by night. But for the saddest of destinations. President Barack Obama landed in Paris just...
View ArticleIn wake of Paris attacks, a new kind of cartoon takes center stage
As France slowly moves out of a national mourning, just over two weeks since coordinated terrorist attacks killed 130 people in the center of Paris, images, drawings and caricatures have become the...
View ArticleParis pushes aside shroud of fear to let in Hanukkah light
Paris is the City of Lights, after all. Despite the fear and grief that continues to shroud the French city following the November attacks, the annual Hanukkah lighting services proceeded as usual...
View ArticleThe Loop: Cafe loitering and acute accents
Welcome to The Loop, the Magazine's letters column, including the best of your thoughts from Twitter and Facebook. Maybe you're reading this in a coffee shop on your computer or tablet - perhaps you've...
View ArticleFrance Seeks to Show Why Suspect’s History Didn’t Avert Attack
Why were French police, who had a dossier on one of the perpetrators of the deadly attack in Paris yesterday, not able to prevent it? That’s the question the French government sought to address as...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo publishes special issue
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has published its first issue since an attack on its office last week, featuring what they say is a depiction of Prophet Muhammad. The newspaper unapologetically...
View ArticleFrench ask for probe of two suspects tied to attacks
French police have asked their Greek counterparts whether they have any information about two suspects believed to have had an active role in last Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, Kathimerini...
View ArticleFrench leaders pledge more money for counter-terrorism fight
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced sweeping new measures Wednesday to reinforce France's counterterrorism apparatus that is already considered to be one of the most advanced in Europe. The...
View ArticleUS Promises Help to Bring Charlie Hebdo Attackers to Justice
Jeff Seldin PENTAGON— The United States is condemning the terror attack in Paris that killed 12 people at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and officials are promising to help in any way...
View ArticleWorld leaders rally around France after attacks
More to this story Fear and confusion in Paris after deadly attacks Live Blog: Paris attacks Shock and horror in France The US president and other world leaders have condemned a series of coordinated...
View ArticleFrance tells US snooping must stop but backs off fight
France on Tuesday warned the United States to stop snooping on the telephone calls of its citizens but backed away from picking a fight with its ally over the issue. In a breakfast meeting with US...
View ArticleBonucci, Conte voice Euro 2016 fears after Paris attacks
Friday's multiple terror attacks in Paris have created concern around France hosting Euro 2016, according to Leonardo Bonucci. Italy defender Leonardo Bonucci believes the apparent co-ordinated terror...
View ArticleEuropean Jews Haven't Felt This Threatened Since World War II, Experts Say>
MILAN (AP) — The killing of four French Jews at a kosher market in last week's terror attacks by Islamic extremists in Paris has deepened the fears among European Jewish communities shaken by rising...
View ArticleFrance moves closer to adopting expansive surveillance law
Just a week after President Obama signed a US law dialing back post-9/11 surveillance measures, France has taken a major step toward giving its spy agencies vast new powers in the wake of the deadly...
View ArticleIs this Muslim the most popular man in France now?
Lassana Bathily had lived as a Muslim migrant worker in France since 2006, and Jan. 9 started like any other day for him at his job at the Hyper Cacher market, a kosher store in Paris. But by the end...
View ArticleFrancois Hollande's 'escapades' - a glossary
Followers of France's political love story may have been intrigued by some expressions used in the media, writes Hugh Schofield. What, for example, to make of a presidential spokesman's statement that...
View ArticleStop giving modern Islam a free pass
‘Something has changed!” That phrase dominated conversation, including the media, in much of France a day after the worst carnage the country has experienced in peacetime. Some labeled the attack in...
View ArticleMigrant backlash: Closing routes into France won't stop terror
(CNN)When Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris that have killed at least 129 people, it warned that more would follow. French President, François Hollande, has in turn vowed to...
View ArticleFrance cruise to 3-0 win over Argentina (FIVB - Fédération Internationale de...
(Source: FIVB - Fédération Internationale de Volleyball) Mendoza, Argentina, May 25, 2014 - France achieved another FIVB World League victory over Argentina as they cruised to a 3-0 (26, 24, 25-18,...
View ArticleFrance striving to stop Central African Republic split, Hollande says
BANGUI (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande flew to Central African Republic on Friday to tell its leaders and French forces stationed there that France will work to stop the country splitting in...
View ArticleHeineken Cup Pool Four: Harlequins v Clermont Auvergne
Harlequins' hopes of becoming the first team to qualify for the Heineken Cup last eight having lost their first two pool matches were dealt a fatal blow by Pool Four leaders Clermont Auvergne. A Brock...
View ArticleAnalysis: A French intelligence failure?
More to this story Analysis: The dilemma for France World leaders agree on broad anti-ISIL plans at G20 Reports that France had been warned by the US and Iraq in advance of Friday's Paris massacre that...
View ArticleDouble comeback for France as they defeat Argentina in a close five-setter...
(Source: FIVB - Fédération Internationale de Volleyball) Mendoza, Argentina, May 24, 2014 - In an exciting battle, France achieved an opening win in the 2014 FIVB World League over hosts Argentina by a...
View ArticleHow the Charlie Hebdo attack unites the world
Saturday marked the start of a weekend of rallies in cities worldwide, as hundreds of thousands gathered in Paris to protest this week’s shooting at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Masked...
View ArticleParis Hebdo attacks: Could French authorities have stopped them?
Five days after the attacks on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, more information is coming out about the past criminal and terrorist records of brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, and Amedy...
View ArticleIt’s a horror!
Terrorist Massacre in Paris”, “The Horror”, “Carnage in Paris”, “The War in the Centre of Paris” — On Saturday morning I woke up to these headlines in the French press when all I wanted to know was the...
View ArticleHow Antonio Conte is shaping the ‘new’ Italy
MILAN: The mood in Italy was despondent after the Azzurri crashed out of the World Cup in Brazil last year, leading to the resignation of coach Cesare Prandelli and the president of the Italian...
View ArticleResurgent Italy beginning to gel under Antonio Conte
MILAN (AP) The mood in Italy was despondent after the Azzurri crashed out of the World Cup in Brazil last year, leading to the resignation of coach Cesare Prandelli and the president of the Italian...
View ArticleTerror aboard a French train, and the three American friends who stopped it
Three quick-thinking Americans – two of them US servicemen – are being hailed as heroes for preventing an apparent terrorist attack which could have resulted in many causalities aboard a train...
View ArticleParis Attacks Draw French Vow to Stop Radicalization in Prison
With two of the three Paris gunmen likely to have deepened their radical Islamic views in prison, France vowed to isolate extremist inmates from other criminals. “We’re coming up with a massive plan...
View ArticleFrance stopped monitoring the Kouachi Brothers last year
French police stopped monitoring Cherif and Said Kouachi in the middle of last year when they were no longer classified as a threat, Vimeo French police stopped monitoring Cherif and Said Kouachi in...
View ArticleHollande: war on Mali Islamic extremists won
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — French President Francois Hollande declared Thursday the war against Islamic extremists had been won in Mali, though he vowed to keep French forces in the West African country as...
View ArticleEuro 2016 'won't be cancelled'
Jacques Lambert promised France would take the "necessary decisions" to ensure next summer's event took place in safety in the wake of Friday's attacks in Paris in which 132 people were killed and...
View ArticleFrance beheading: Security services knew of suspect's Islamist links but...
The man who decapitated his manager before mounting his head on a fence and trying to blow a gas factory in France had been monitored by the security agencies, it has emerged. Yassin Salhi, 35, placed...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo’s owners won’t keep newspaper’s profits this year
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View ArticleThis Parisian father comforted his frightened little boy in the most...
LONDON — A conversation between a French father, his little boy and a reporter is going viral after it was shared on Facebook by French TV show Le Petit Journal in the wake of the Paris attacks. See...
View Article'Fences won't put anyone off': migrants dismiss new Calais security crackdown
People in New Jungle camp say Theresa May’s attempts to tackle crisis at French port will not deter those fleeing war from trying to reach UK...
View ArticleItaly won't take Azerbaijan lightly: El Shaarawy
MILAN: Monaco forward Stephan El Shaarawy said Italy won't be taking Azerbaijan lightly when the Azzurri travel to Baku on Saturday looking to seal qualification for Euro 2016 with a game to spare....
View ArticleFrench citizenship to become more accessible
The French government is easing language skills requirements and streamlining the administration in charge of granting French citizenship to reverse a fall in the number of naturalisations since 2010....
View ArticleParis cafe reopens after attacks as wounded city revives
With the blood and bullets now swept away, the Carillon cafe reopened its doors Wednesday for the first time since it was among the Paris sites targeted by Islamic extremists in November. The French...
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