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LONDON,United Kingdom (AFP) — New British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will on Thursday make his first official visit to the United States, meeting international counterparts as part of the fight against Islamic State (IS). The former London mayor, a surprise choice to become Britain’s top diplomat in new Prime Minister Theresa May’s government, made his first overseas engagement on Monday, meeting with European leaders, many of whom were angered by his campaign to take Britain […]
BERLIN , Germany (AFP) — German police shot dead a 17-year-old Afghan refugee late Monday after he attacked train passengers with an axe and a knife, seriously wounding three people in what one official said was a “probable” Islamist attack. Several other people were also injured in the assault on a regional train near the southern city of Wuerzburg, police said, adding that the teenager was killed as he tried to flee. Joachim Herrmann, the […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Links between the Nice truck attacker and “terrorist networks”, including the Islamic State group which has claimed the killings, “have not yet been established by the investigation”, France’s interior minister said Monday. “We cannot exclude that an unbalanced and very violent individual” has been “through a rapid radicalisation, committed to this absolutely despicable crime,” which killed 84 people, Bernard Cazeneuve told France’s RTL radio. Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, rammed a 19-tonne […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Turkey must protect the rule of law following the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Monday, after authorities detained 6,000 in a ruthless crackdown. “We are the ones saying today rule of law has to be protected in the country, there is no excuse for any steps that take the country away from that,” Mogherini said as EU foreign ministers met in Brussels. “As […]
NICE, France (AFP) — An eight-month-old baby boy lost in the chaos after a truck rammed into a crowd in the French Riviera city of Nice killing at least 84 people was tracked down through Facebook on Friday. Tiava Banner — who said she was not the mother of the baby — sent out an appeal on Facebook looking for any information on the whereabouts of the child who had been lost in his blue […]
Profile of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, the driver in the Nice attack.
Updated timeline of the Nice attack and the state of the investigation.
PARIS, France (AFP) — Victims of the Nice truck attack included three generations of a family out for a stroll, a Frenchman protecting his pregnant wife and a former Soviet soldier. The Bastille Day assault killed 84 people of all ages — including 10 children — who had been out enjoying a fireworks display on a warm summer evening. The dead came from at least 12 countries. More than 300 people were also injured when […]
by Céline AGNIEL with Pauline TALAGRAND in Paris NICE, France (AFP) — The Nice truck attacker staked out the seafront for two days before striking, it emerged Sunday as investigators pieced together details of the Islamic State-claimed massacre and questioned possible accomplices. A source close to the investigation told AFP that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, sent a text message just before the attack in which he “expresses satisfaction at having obtained a 7.65-millimetre pistol […]
London, United Kingdom—The minister charged with securing new trade deals for Britain outside the European Union said Sunday he was aiming for a Brexit date of Jan. 1, 2019, as London made overtures toward Australia and Canada. “That’s the date I’m working to, which could be brought forward if necessary,” International Trade Secretary Liam Fox told the Sunday Times newspaper. This would involve triggering Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, which would start a […]
EUROPEAN and Asian leaders who are gathering at the Asia-Europe meeting summit in Mongolia on Friday (July 15) condemned the attack in French Riviera city of Nice, as they expressed disbelief about the latest attack in France. “Everyone who is here at the ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) summit is united in the disbelief about the attack of mass murder in Nice,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the major summit between Asian […]
https://youtu.be/1x2ctYFy5GA President Francois Hollande says the truck which ploughed into a crowd in the French Riviera resort of Nice, killing more than 80 people, was a “terrorist” attack on revellers watching a Bastille Day fireworks display. (Courtesy AFP TV)
