Germany has thrown open her doors to Syria, declaring it will welcome all that country’s asylum seekers. In doing so, it has overturned a EU convention which insists that asylum seekers must register in the first country they reach. Germany will
The son of the previous French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has caused a stir on social media by saying he is “proud to be an American patriot and not French.” Louis Sarkozy, 18, is currently studying to become an officer at
Defeated railway jihadi Ayoub el-Khazzani has been claiming he wasn’t embarking on a murder spree at all, when he emerged from the bathroom of a high-speed train in France with an arsenal of weapons and 300 rounds of ammunition, only to be tackled and beaten senseless by heroic passengers.
French President Francois Hollande wasted no time expressing his nation’s gratitude to the American and British heroes who thwarted a jihad attack on a high-speed train on Friday, saving dozens of lives and delivering a hog-tied ISIS lone wolf to the French police.
From the Wall Street Journal Opinion section. We repost below: Americans saving the day in Europe is a familiar story, and on Friday evening it happened again on a train from Amsterdam to Paris. Three young American friends on vacation, two
Fingerprint evidence shows that the gunman overpowered by passengers on a train in France is a Morrocan known to European authorities as a suspected Islamist militant, according to a source familiar with the case.
An American soldier who was part of a group who took down a terrorist attempting to shoot up an intercity train in France has spoken of his experience to British television. In an interview with Sky News, National Guardsman Alek
A gunman who opened fire on a train in northern France Friday was restrained by two U.S. Marines before he could do any further damage, according to initial reports of the incident.
As Jean-Marie Le Pen faces a ban from the Front National (FN), the French political party he co-founded and once led, his daughter and current party leader Marine Le Pen has said she will not attend today’s disciplinary hearing which decides her
British police, including UK Border Force officers, will be deployed to France after Home Secretary Theresa May signed a belated agreement with the French government on the Calais migrant crisis. The agreement will establish a joint control and command centre,
The mayor of a small French town has broken a 2005 law obliging communities to welcome gypsy camps by digging ditches around municipal land to prevent the arrival of caravans. The defences, which consist of twelve ditches with piled earth
About 80 supporters of the Iran deal gathered for a photo shoot Saturday afternoon in San Diego’s Balboa Park. The photos are to be used in a larger video project, in an effort to push elected officials and the public to support the
The Belgian Interior Minister has announced the creation of a special Task Force to counter human trafficking. The move comes as his country steps up its battle against human traffickers to avoid the risk of Belgium becoming a ‘second Calais’. In an interview with
PARIS, Aug 16 (Reuters) – A French policeman was slightly wounded by a gunshot on Sunday as he tried to apprehend two men who had broken into an Interior Ministry building just outside Paris, a ministry spokesman said. The circumstance
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A police officer trying to confiscate the wares of an illegal, migrant souvenir seller in Paris got more than he bargained for when the criminal’s friends got stuck in. In a remarkable attack caught on film by a Russian tourist,
A poster distributed to French churches has reminded parishioners the threat of Christianophobic terrorist attacks remains real, and responsibility sits on their shoulders to remain vigilant. Coming just months after an attempted terrorist attack on a Paris church by Muslim
The migrant crisis in Calais, on the French side of the Eurotunnel, has grown so severe that polls show a surprising degree of agreement between French and British citizens that British troops should be deployed on French soil to help secure the tunnel.
McDonald’s France was forced to apologise Wednesday following the emergence of an internal note reportedly ordering staff not to hand out food to “tramps” at a restaurant on the swish Cote d’Azur. The note was revealed on Twitter by consumer
Paris has been put on high alert for possible violence that could break out this Thursday when the city hosts ‘Tel Aviv Sur Seine,’ a day-long festive and cultural event dedicated to the Israeli city. Left wing politicians have condemned the event
Abdul Rahman Haroun, a Sudanese refugee among the 3,000 uncomfortably camped on the northern coast of France, decided to forego the invitation and force his way into the United Kingdom. He made a most impressive effort, climbing over four fences, dodging four hundred security cameras, and running halfway through the undersea railway tunnel connecting France with Britain before tripping an alarm, dodging high-speed trains in the dark tunnel every step of the way.
Hundreds of migrants have moved into an abandoned school in Central Paris, prompting a political row over what to do about them. The Socialist mayor of Paris first ordered them to vacate the building, but has now said they can
France has now taken full possession of two helicopter carriers it originally planned to sell to Russia, but cannot afford to keep them itself, raising speculation over who might buy them instead. The arms embargo against Russia, enacted to punish
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COQUELLES, France (AP) — French riot police have sprayed migrants with a chemical irritant as they tried to storm the Channel Tunnel, and the British and French interior ministers said the nightly attempts to reach Britain are part of a
