France sent troops to Central African Republic (CAR) to help stabilize the war-torn country, but the nation is now facing accusations that soldiers raped or sexually assaulted children as young as 9 years old.
Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Renald “Luz” Luzier, who drew the toon of Mohammed holding a “Je suis Charlie” sign for the record-breaking post-massacre comeback issue of the French magazine, says he’s done drawing pictures of Islam’s prophet.
A school in northeast France received criticism after the principal sent home a 15-year-old Muslim girl named Sarah for wearing a long black skirt, which the principal believed was a violation of the nation’s secular dress code for schools.
(Reuters) – A Nepali-French search and rescue team pulled a 28-year-old man, Rishi Khanal, from a collapsed apartment block in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu on Tuesday after he had spent around 80 hours in a room with three dead bodies.
Following the European Union’s emergency summit on the Libyan refugee crisis, French President Francois Hollande announced he would seek a United Nations resolution authorizing the destruction of smuggling vessels.
On a street in Paris’s popular 6th Arrondissement, men in camouflage wielding Famas assault rifles patiently stand guard throughout the day. It is an unexpected sight amidst the chic designer boutiques and crowded restaurants, but one a hotel attendant nearby explains with a knowing glance: the building they guard houses an organization for Jews.
French authorities arrested a 24-year-old Algerian, allegedly planning an “imminent attack” on the nation’s churches. The man, believed to be an aspiring ISIS jihadist “known to security services as having expressed a wish to travel to Syria,” was arrested after shooting himself.
A Polish man who has admitted to the rape and murder of a nine-year-old French girl was on his way to England at the time of the crime, a French court has heard. Zbigniew Huminski, 38, was on his way
The foreign ministers of both Germany and France offered strong praise for Hillary Clinton after she announced her presidential campaign.
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have found that documented incidents of anti-Semitic attacks increased by almost 40 percent from 2013 to 2014.
Over 1,430 French nationals have traveled to join jihadist groups in territory held by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria, representing 47 percent of the European militants there, a report by the French Parliament revealed.
The French Prime Minister has stepped in to have a ban lifted on an advert for a musical trio called ‘The Priests’. Transport chiefs had ruled that posters advertising a concert in June by the group breached the country’s strict
Anonymous International released over 40,000 text messages allegedly hacked from a Russian official showing Russia offering money to France’s National Front (FN) party if the party’s leader, Marine Le Pen, endorsed the annexation of Crimea.
The French UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) Party is facing controversy following the discovery that a large part of a bill presented to the French legislature in remembrance of the Armenian genocide was plagiarized from Wikipedia. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is a member of the UMP.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has released a new e-book, “How to Survive in the West: A Mujahid Guide (2015),” specifically for sleeper cells within the United States. It offers points to evade arrest and live under the radar.
France’s ruling Socialist Party has taken a drubbing in the French local elections, losing control of around half of its departements including left wing strongholds such as Correze, President Hollande’s home ground. Hollande’s presidential prospects are now looking gloomy, with one adviser
The French government announced a fourth French national passed away due to wounds from the March 18 terrorist attack at Tunisia’s national museum. The death toll currently sits at 22.
It looks as if we have an answer to one of this morning’s lingering questions about Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who evidently seized control of his plane and drove it into the Alps, killing 150 people. Lufthansa earlier divulged that Lubitz took a long break from his pilot training. Now the UK Daily Mail has more details about that episode, saying he suspended training in 2008 “because he was suffering from depression and burnout.”
French authorities released much new information about the horrible Germanwings crash in the Alps this morning, but some vital questions remain unanswered. Why is the French prosecutor so firmly convinced that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, deliberately crashed the plane?
Last night, we learned that black-box audio recordings appeared to show the pilot of the doomed Germanwings Flight 9525 had been locked out of the cockpit and was attempting to gain entry – politely at first, but acting with increasing urgency as the plane descended, until at the end it sounded as if he was trying to smash the armored cockpit door down.
Authorities discovered the black box for Flight 9525, which will hopefully reveal why the flight crashed into the French Alps. The BEA air accident investigation authority announced they “extracted recordings” from the cockpit recorder.
Germanwings cancelled numerous flights after crew members refused to fly due to the tragic crash of Flight 9252 in the French Alps.
Washington (AFP) – A prominent Jewish figure urged the United States to beware surging anti-Semitism in Europe and warned that seven decades after World War II Jews on the continent are having to look over their shoulders once more.
Iraq’s battle for Tikrit reaches a standstill, humiliating Iran; Disorganization plagues Iraq’s soldiers assaulting Tikrit; Correction to yesterday’s report on France’s elections; Greece’s Tsipras visits Germany’s Merkel and demands reparations
Marine Le Pen has suffered a set back in her bid for the French Presidency, as her party, the National Front (FN), was knocked into second place by surging support for the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) led by
