Topic: France
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe vowed Saturday to help Nigeria in its fight against extremism as the country faces an intensifying Islamist insurgency, mainly in the north where he also visited.The radical Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed credit for a recent ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden wanted al Qaeda hostage takers to use their French captives to discredit President Nicolas Sarkozy and his security policy ahead of a presidential election next year, possibly by killing them, France Info radio ...
Religious-linked violence and abuse rose around the world between 2006 and 2009, with Christians and Muslims the most common targets, according to a private US study released Tuesday."Over the three-year period studied, incidents of either government or social harassment were reported against ...
Britain's universities are complacent in tackling Islamic extremism on campus, the interior minister warned Monday.Home Secretary Theresa May said universities were not taking the issue of radicalisation seriously enough, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph newspaper.Her remarks come a day ahead ...
DEAUVILLE, France (Reuters) - The gently sloping beaches of Normandy lend themselves well to invasions. From here, William the Conqueror set out to invade England in 1066 and in World War II they were the landing site for the allied assault on ...
PARIS (Reuters) - France will bolster security at home and around its assets abroad to guard against reprisals after the death of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Tuesday.Fillon said bin Laden's death in a raid ...
Experts from the United States and Europe have joined the probe into the deadly bombing at a Marrakesh tourist cafe that left 16 dead, Morocco's interior ministry said on Saturday.Some 14 people injured in the blast remained in hospital, four in serious ...
Aggressive intelligence gathering and some of the toughest anti-terror laws in Europe have helped France thwart Islamist terror attacks for 15 years, but a new call to arms by Osama bin Laden has the country on high alert. July 7, 2005 - ...
In the latter half of the 19th century, terror was adopted in western Europe, Russia, and the United States by adherents of anarchism, who believed that the best way to effect revolutionary political and social change was to assassinate persons in positions ...
France on Friday rejected demands from an Al-Qaeda cell holding five French hostages in northern Africa that it negotiate their freedom with Osama bin Laden and pull its troops out of Afghanistan."France cannot accept that its policy be dictated by anyone outside," ...
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