After a day spent in denial, the Obama administration finally seems ready to admit that an attack in Paris last month was anti-Semitic. But the denials were fun while they lasted.
An ex-prostitute told a court in Lille, France, 138 miles north of Paris, the former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn forced her to have brutal anal sex at an orgy even though she specifically told him she did not want to.
Russian soldiers and Russian-backed rebels in Ukraine assaulted Kramatorsk and surrounded Debaltseve on the eve of peace talks in Minsk, Belarus. The attack left twelve people dead and wounded thirty-one. Children are included among the wounded.
UPDATE: Psaki has since tweeted that the attack “was an anti-semitic attack that took the lives of innocent people.” We have always been clear that the attack on the kosher grocery store was an anti-semitic attack that took the lives
On February 9, approximately 10 hooded men with Kalashnikov rifles opened fire on police in Marseille as French Prime Minister Manuel Valls prepared to give a speech on the “excellent” work in reducing crime there.
It didn’t take long.
The Boko Haram crisis in northern Nigeria continues to rage. On Wednesday, Boko Haram staged a major counter-attack against Cameroon– one of the nations leading an African Union coalition against the terrorist group– launching a bloody rampage through the border town of Fotokol that killed at least 91 villages and wounded over 500, according to the Associated Press.
Four men beat French street artist Combo after he refused to remove his artwork that called for the peaceful coexistence of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
The most wanted woman in France may be working with ISIS now!
A man who had reportedly attempted to join the jihad in the Middle East previously has been accused of attacking three French soldiers on Tuesday, lunging at the troops with his knife while they were on guard outside a Jewish Community Center.
Analysts are puzzled by ISIS’s burning alive of Jordan’s pilot; Jordan promises revenge against ISIS for killing pilot; Japan’s nationalism surges over ISIS killings of two Japanese hostages
Two female suicide bombers are believed to have been responsible for multiple explosions at a presidential election rally in northeast Nigeria on Monday. President Goodluck Jonathan himself is reported to have narrowly missed the blast, while many suspect the hand of radical Islamist group Boko Haram was involved in the terrorist incident.
(Reuters) – French forces in northern Mali have killed around a dozen Islamist militants in the region of the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains, France’s defense ministry said on Monday.
The publishers of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo announced on Saturday that it would put its next issue on hold while its employees recover after losing 12 co-workers to a terror attack early in January.
European finance ministers worried that Greece’s new far-left government would renege on the terms of previous bailout packages, while demanding even more debt to finance wild new spending programs, were given fresh reason for concern when the new Greek finance minister announced his government would not negotiate bailout terms with the European Union or International Monetary Fund.
When the mayor of Paris threatened to sue Fox News for “slandering” her city by reporting on Muslim-dominated “no-go zones,” liberal media outlets forgot their own years of reporting on those zones to bash their hated right-leaning cable news adversary. Among the longtime observers who pushed back against no-go zone denialism is author Mark Steyn, who has mentioned these hostile, unassimilated communities in his columns and books for years.
A new poll commissioned by French magazine Marianne reveals that if presidential elections happened today, Le Pen would gather the most votes and France’s unpopular incumbent President Hollande would be knocked out in the first round. It’s the first opinion poll
Earlier this week, before leaving for Auschwitz to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet liberation of the Nazi German extermination camp, President Francois Hollande appealed to French Jews, saying that “You, French people of the Jewish faith, France is your country, your place is here, in your home.”
Over 30,000 people descended upon Karachi, Pakistan, to protest against the Mohammed cartoons published in Charlie Hebdo. It was the country’s largest rally against the satirical newspaper, where two gunmen slaughtered twelve people on January 7.
Among the sweeping changes France is proposing in the aftermath of this month’s terrorist attacks in Paris are new measures to fight Islamic radicalization in its prisons. It is an enormous problem brought into starker relief because two of the suspects in the attacks earlier this month were products of the French penal system.
Just three days after the March for Life in Washington commemorating the Supreme Court decision that paved the way for abortion on demand in the U.S., an estimated 45,000 French pro-lifers marched in Paris Sunday in protest of their government’s
The European Central Bank (ECB) gave the Left and their allies meeting in Davos, Switzerland, everything they could have hoped for with the announcement that they have agreed to print $1.13 trillion of new cash to buy the national debt of their insolvent members. But “hidden within the announcement is evidence of Germany’s weakening commitment to the European project,” according to Stratfor.
France is to introduce a national “day of secularity” and teach children about French national symbols, including the tricolor and the Marseillaise, in an attempt to curb rising religious fundamentalism. The government has pledged €250 million (£190 million) over the
Turkish authorities have arrested former Miss Turkey, Merve Buyuksarac, 26, because she quoted a poem on social media that insults President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The arrest is the latest in a crackdown on free speech in Turkey that has worsened since two radical Islamists slaughtered twelve people at satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France.
French government officials have confirmed to the media that up to ten of its former soldiers “have defected to the Islamic State. Among those defectors is at least one member of an elite fighting unit with advanced training.
