
GAZA CITY (AFP) – The Israeli air force carried out attacks on Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip early Saturday, Palestinian security sources said, just hours after rockets from the enclave hit southern Israel. According to the sources, the Israeli strikes targeted
by AFP2 Jan 2016, 12:03 AM PST0

Germany was on high alert Friday as police hunted for up to seven people suspected of plotting a New Year’s Eve suicide attack in Munich in the name of the Islamic State group. Officials said they were tipped off about
by AFP1 Jan 2016, 4:02 AM PST0

France on Wednesday confirmed the death of French jihadist Charaffe el Mouadan, who had close links to at least one of the Paris attackers, as it emerged the gunmen coordinated the November 13 assault in real time. Defence Minister Jean-Yves
by AFP31 Dec 2015, 3:29 AM PST0

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday said it would release nearly a million copies of a special issue to mark a year since jihadists killed a dozen people in its Paris offices. The 32-page double issue — featuring a
by AFP31 Dec 2015, 2:15 AM PST0

The Israeli government on Wednesday approved a plan worth several billion dollars to improve the economic situation of the Arab minority, officials said. Details on how the money will be spent were not immediately available. But a statement from Prime
by AFP31 Dec 2015, 1:13 AM PST0

An academic and a French MP have announced plans to publish online Friday the famous diary of Anne Frank, with the organisation holding publication rights threatening legal action. University of Nantes lecturer Olivier Ertzscheid told AFP Wednesday that the planned
by AFP31 Dec 2015, 1:08 AM PST0

Jerusalem (AFP) – An Israeli minister and close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought Wednesday to play down revelations the United States monitored the premier’s private communications. “I didn’t fall off my chair from The Wall Street Journal report,”
by AFP31 Dec 2015, 12:46 AM PST0

GENEVA (AFP) – Over one million migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in 2015, nearly half of them Syrians, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said Wednesday. The milestone marks an almost five-fold increase over 2014 figures, when UNHCR recorded
by AFP30 Dec 2015, 3:47 AM PST0

BERLIN (AFP) – The copyright of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” expires Friday, with plans by several publishers for annotated reprints sparking fierce debate over how one of the world’s most controversial books should be treated seven decades after the defeat of the Nazis.
by AFP30 Dec 2015, 3:24 AM PST0

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel’s top court on Tuesday upheld a bribery conviction against Ehud Olmert, making him the country’s first ex-prime minister to serve jail time. The 70-year-old, who was prime minister from 2006 to 2009, was sentenced in May 2014
by AFP29 Dec 2015, 2:10 AM PST0

President Andrzej Duda on Monday signed into law a controversial bill reforming Poland’s constitutional court despite widespread domestic opposition and mounting alarm in the international community. Thousands of people have taken to the streets over changes pushed through by the
by AFP28 Dec 2015, 4:05 PM PST0

Around 4,000 migrants and refugees were saved from waters between Italy and North Africa over the course of the Christmas weekend, with further rescue operations expected in the final days of an “exceptional” year, officials said Monday. The Italian coastguard
by AFP28 Dec 2015, 4:04 PM PST0

France called Monday on the European Union to do more to detect false Syrian passports, especially in Greece and Italy, after two of the suicide bombers in the Paris attacks were found to be carrying such documents. The attacks “unfortunately
by AFP28 Dec 2015, 2:09 PM PST0

The eurozone is not expected to welcome any new members in the coming years, as the region’s long crisis seems to have put some countries off, deputy European Commission chief said in a newspaper interview Monday. “No new members are
by AFP28 Dec 2015, 4:01 AM PST0

GAZA CITY (AFP) – A Palestinian wounded at the Gaza border in clashes with the Israeli army last week died early Monday from his injuries, the Gaza health ministry said. Yusef al-Buhel, 48, died after being shot east of the Maghazi refugee
by AFP28 Dec 2015, 2:35 AM PST0

France will throw open access to police and legal archives drawn from one of the country’s darkest hours, when the Vichy regime collaborated with Nazi occupiers during World War II, authorities said Sunday. Starting Monday the archives can be “freely
by AFP27 Dec 2015, 5:11 PM PST0

The mother of one of the Paris attackers has told a local Belgian television station that she had missed the warning signs, and not spotted that her son had been radicalised. Fatima Hadfi, who said she was the mother of
by AFP27 Dec 2015, 4:50 PM PST0

Around 15,000 people marched in Dusseldorf on Saturday to protest against Turkey’s military crackdown against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels, local police said. The marchers, demonstrating on behalf of Germany’s federation of Kurdish groups, Nav-Dem, also slammed the European Union
by AFP27 Dec 2015, 12:50 PM PST0

The Belgian authorities are questioning staff at a Brussels school attended by one of the Paris attackers whose warnings that he had become worryingly radicalised were missed, press reports said Saturday. The reports, based on Flemish language dailies De Morgen
by AFP27 Dec 2015, 5:03 AM PST0

Czech President Milos Zeman (above right), known for his anti-migrant comments, on Saturday called the current wave of refugees to Europe “an organised invasion”, and that young men from Syria and Iraq should instead “take up arms” against the Islamic
by AFP26 Dec 2015, 5:12 PM PST0

Police in Austria said Saturday they stepped up security in Vienna and other cities after receiving a warning of possible attacks during the holiday season. “In the lead-up to Christmas, a friendly intelligence service sent a warning to numerous European capitals
by AFP26 Dec 2015, 5:02 PM PST0

Demonstrators ransacked a Muslim prayer hall and set fire to copies of the Koran on the French island of Corsica Friday, police said, in an attack condemned by the government. The violence came on Christmas Day amid heightened security measures
by AFP25 Dec 2015, 4:45 PM PST0

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II used her Christmas address Friday to highlight the triumph of good over evil after a string of attacks in 2015, and to draw attention to the plight of refugees. She delivered her pre-recorded message at Buckingham
by AFP25 Dec 2015, 11:05 AM PST0

As the winter sun sets on Pakistan’s leafy capital Islamabad, residents of the city’s largest Christian slum use bicycles, donkey carts and their backs to haul jerry cans filled with water to their homes. Situated on the capital’s periphery, the
by AFP25 Dec 2015, 12:48 AM PST0

Poland’s Senate approved controversial reforms to the country’s highest court which have triggered protests at home (pictured above) and EU warnings that they could undermine the rule of law, in a overnight session. The bill, which changes current conditions in
by AFP24 Dec 2015, 5:25 PM PST0