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PARIS, France (AFP) – PARIS, France (AFP) – A 23-year-old man has been charged with plotting to assassinate President Emmanuel Macron at France’s Bastille Day parade, a judicial source said Monday. The self-described nationalist, who was arrested last Wednesday, told investigators he wanted to kill Macron at the July 14 national day parade in Paris, a source close to the investigation said. He said he also wanted to attack “Muslims, Jews, blacks, homosexuals,” the source […]
STAMMBACH, Germany (Reuters) – Thirty-one people were injured, some seriously, when a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway in the German state of Bavaria on Monday (July 3), police said. There were 48 people on the bus at the time of the crash, according to a police Twitter. A police spokesman told broadcaster n-tv that 17 people were unaccounted for and he expected several had died.
AVIGNON, France (Reuters) – Eight people were wounded in a shooting in front of a mosque in the southern French city of Avignon in an incident police consider to be a settling of scores rather than a militant attack, a source close to the investigation said on Monday (July 3). A local resident who witnessed the scene but did not want to disclose his name said that a car pulled up with four people in […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — At least 2,000 people were evacuated from Paris’ main airport on Saturday and eight flights cancelled after an individual went into a “restricted area” without going through security controls, airport sources said. “We had to evacuate to ‘decontaminate’ the zone, meaning check to make sure no object had been left,” said one of the sources. The evacuations were from a zone in terminal 2F at the Charles de Gaulle airport that passengers access […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Syria’s former defense minister Mustafa Tlass, a close friend of President Bashar al-Assad’s father and predecessor Hafez, died in Paris on Tuesday, his son Firas said. He was 85. Tlass, whose other son Manaf was among the most high-profile regime officials to defect during the early days of Syria’s uprising, died in a hospital on the outskirts of the French capital. “Tlass died this morning at the Avicenne hospital and will be buried in Paris in […]
by Gregory Danel / Romain Fonsegrives Agence France Presse CRETEIL, France — A man drove his vehicle into barriers protecting a mosque in the Paris suburbs Thursday, forcing worshippers to dodge out of the way, police and officials said. Muslim community leaders described the incident, which injured no one, as an “attempted attack” and an “Islamophobic act.” It came nearly two weeks after a man rammed a van into worshippers outside a mosque in London, […]
HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) — A ten-minute walk from Germany’s heavily-guarded G20 summit venue in the port city of Hamburg lies the graffiti-covered center of the left-wing protest movement vowing to disrupt it. “Capitalism will end anyway — you decide when!” reads a banner atop the Rote Flora, a former vacant theater that was occupied by squatters in 1989 in the midst of demonstrations and street battles. It has since become an alternative cultural center and spiritual home […]
CRETEIL, France (Reuters) – A man was arrested after he tried to drive a car into a crowd in front of a mosque in the Paris suburb of Creteil on Thursday (June 29), police said, adding that no one was injured. The man’s motives were unclear, and he had not succeeded in reaching the crowd because of barriers in front of the mosque, police said in a statement. An investigation, to be carried out by […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Thursday against protectionism and isolationism at a time when the world faces global challenges such as climate change and the threat of terrorism. “Those who think that the problems of this world can be solved with isolationism or protectionism are terribly wrong,” she told the German parliament ahead of the July 7-8 Group of 20 summit. She acknowledged that even within export powerhouse Germany, there are anti-globalization […]
(Reuters) — Commuters of the railway station of Paddington in London reflected on the passing of Michael Bond, the British creator of Paddington Bear, who died on Tuesday (June 28) aged 91 after a short illness. The Paddington Bear, a marmalade sandwich-loving refugee from Peru, entertained generations of children with his exploits in London. Wearing a tag round his neck that read “Please look after this bear,” Paddington was named after the London railway station […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Six suspected members of the Islamic State group were arrested in Spain, Britain and Germany on Wednesday in an operation led by Spanish authorities investigating a jihadist recruiting network, the Spanish interior ministry said. Raids were continuing Wednesday morning targeting the group, based on the island of Majorca and led by an Islamist imam, who was arrested in Britain, the ministry said in a statement. The imam, 44, was the target […]
by By Oleksandr Savochenko with Maria Antonova in Moscow and AFP bureaus Agence France Presse KIEV, Ukraine (AFP) — A global wave of cyberattacks that began in Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday wrought havoc on government and corporate computer systems as it spread to Western Europe and across the Atlantic. Several multinational companies said they were targeted, including United States pharmaceutical giant Merck, Russian state oil giant Rosneft, British advertising giant WPP and the French […]
