(Radio France) The Paris special criminal court, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged participation in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in the French capital, this week heard evidence from an Austrian policeman in person, and from Belgian policemen via […]
(AFP) France on Sunday urged Britain to help more with cracking down on people-smuggling gangs following a row between the two countries last week over an unprecedented boat accident in the Channel that cost 27 lives. “We have to work with our […]
(BBC) Home Secretary Priti Patel has warned that failure by European politicians to co-operate on the continent’s migrant crisis will lead to “even worse scenes” in the English Channel this winter. France is hosting German, Belgian and Dutch ministers and European Commission […]
(AP) The price to cross the English Channel varies according to the network of smugglers, between 3,000 and 7,000 euros ($3,380 and $8,000) though there are rumors of discounts. Often, the fee also includes a very short-term tent rental in the windy […]
(AP) Austrian authorities said Saturday they have arrested 15 people suspected of smuggling Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian migrants into the country, and seized 14 vehicles that were used to transport them. Police in Lower Austria province said they opened an investigation last […]
(Deutsche Welle) A Düsseldorf court has sentenced a German national to 10 years behind bars for murder on Friday. The man, named as Nils D. under German privacy laws, tortured a man to death at a prison run by the so-called “Islamic […]
(Radio France) The official aim of Friday’s session of the Paris attacks trial was to hear evidence from Belgian police investigators on the backgrounds of two of the dead terrorists and one other suspect. The hearing was, however, marked by the refusal […]
(AFP) Britain on Friday designated all of Hamas an “Islamist terrorist group,” warning that its members and those who support the group could face stiff jail terms. The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the group that rules the Gaza Strip, has […]
(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron hit out at British Prime [Minister] Boris Johnson on Friday over a tweeted letter, accusing him of being “not serious” after 27 migrants died crossing the Channel. Johnson sparked fury in France after writing a private letter […]
(AFP) Belarus’s strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko told migrants on the border with Poland Friday that he would not try to stop them from reaching the European Union, urging Germany to take them in. In footage released by state media, Lukashenko was shown […]
(Radio France) Four of the 14 men normally present in the courtroom at the Paris attacks trial in the central Paris Palais de Justice on Thursday refused to take their places in the box for the accused. Their legal teams explained that […]
(BBC) The brother of the Manchester Arena bomber will be arrested and brought to give evidence to the attack inquiry if he returns to the UK, a judge has said. Ismail Abedi had been ordered to attend the Manchester Arena inquiry in […]
(Radio France) Wednesday’s evidence at the Paris attacks trial focused for the second successive day on Adel Haddadi and Muhammed Usman, both accused of planning a terrorist action in France. They were stopped by Austrian police as they tried to cross Europe. […]
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(AFP) The bodies were barely out of the water after the most deadly day ever for migrants crossing the English Channel before accusations began to fly over who was to blame for the tragedy. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is desperate […]
(BBC) A convicted terrorist has admitted he was in the same Libyan militia group as the Manchester Arena bomber’s father. Abdalraouf Abdallah, a friend of Salman Abedi, was brought from HMP Wakefield to give evidence at the Manchester Arena inquiry into the […]
(BBC) At least 27 people headed for the UK have drowned in the English Channel near Calais after their boat sank. The International Organization for Migration said it was the biggest single loss of life in the Channel since it began collecting […]
(Radio France) Tuesday’s session of the special criminal court, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the November 2015 Paris terrorist killings, examined the cases of Adel Haddadi and Muhammed Usman. Both were arrested in Austria one month […]
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(BBC) The mosque which the Manchester Arena bomber attended failed to adequately “challenge extremist ideology” in the years before the attack, the families of his victims have said. A former Didsbury Mosque imam has told the Manchester Arena inquiry support for terror […]
(Courthouse News) A lower EU court was wrong to strike Hamas from the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations, the union’s highest court found on Tuesday. Founded in 1987, following the First Intifada, Hamas is the de facto governing authority of the […]
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(AP) The number of people trying to enter Europe without authorization has risen significantly this year to surpass migrant border crossing figures from 2019, before restrictions imposed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic severely limited travel, the European Union’s border and coast guard […]
(AP) The leaders of three Central European countries on Tuesday expressed their solidarity with Poland in an ongoing migration crisis on its eastern border with Belarus, and urged the European Union to increase its support for the protection of the bloc’s external […]
(Arab News) The Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates are using well-meaning liberals across Europe to cover for and further their own anti-democratic agenda, experts have warned. At an event attended by Arab News and hosted by UAE think tank Trends Research and […]
(AFP) French police have detained 15 suspected members of an international migrant smuggling syndicate that helped people illegally cross the Channel to Britain. The announcement comes as tensions grow between London and Paris over the record numbers of migrants crossing the Channel, […]
(BBC) The Manchester Arena bomber’s elder brother had a “significant” amount of extremist material when he was teaching at a mosque, an inquiry has heard. Ismail Abedi helped with Quran reading in Arabic in classes at Didsbury Mosque between February 2014 and […]
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(AP) The authoritarian leader of Belarus on Monday sharply criticized the European Union for its refusal to hold talks on the influx of migrants on the country’s border with Poland. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko urged Germany to accommodate about 2,000 migrants who […]
(BBC) The number of migrants to have reached the UK by boat this year is now more than three times the 2020 total. The Home Office said 886 people arrived on Saturday, bringing the 2021 total to more than 25,700. The figure […]
(BBC) There was no indication the Manchester Arena bomber held extremist views and was planning a terrorist attack, his friend has told an inquiry. Alzoubare Mohammed said Salman Abedi “distanced himself” from friends and “would probably go to the mosque more often” […]
(Politico) Two French ministers on Monday called out the European Commission over a meeting between Commissioner for Equality Helena Dalli and FEMYSO, a network of Muslim youth associations they dubbed an “Islamist association that is attacking France.” The association met with Dalli […]
(AP) When the Taliban took Kabul in August, Zakia was six months pregnant and in her first year of university while her husband, Hamid, was working as an auditor. They decided to flee, and along with five relatives, began a two-month odyssey […]
(AFP) A Bulgarian court on Monday authorised the transfer of a man convicted of terrorism to Belgium, where he was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison in 2015. Yassine Lachiri was arrested in Bulgaria on November 10 after entering the […]
(BBC) Priti Patel’s “incompetence” in dealing with small boats crossing the Channel is “dangerous,” Labour has said. More than 24,700 people have made the crossing from France to the UK by boat so far this year to seek asylum or to immigrate […]
(Radio France) During the past week at the Paris special criminal court, where 20 men are being tried over the November 2015 terrorist killings that cost 131 people their lives, witnesses offered a chilling glimpse of the methodology of murder elaborated by […]
(Sky News) Shamima Begum, the Bethnal Green schoolgirl who fled to Syria and joined IS, has told Sky News she was groomed by friends and older men she met online before joining the terror group. Speaking from a prison camp in Syria, […]
(AP) Two Pakistanis and two Afghan minors have been arrested and charged for detaining fellow migrants in a makeshift camp at North Macedonia’s border with Serbia and torturing them, authorities said Sunday. North Macedonia’s public prosecutor’s office said the suspects had set […]
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(Radio France) On Friday, the special criminal court in Paris continued to hear evidence of anonymous police investigators, this time on the terrorist careers of the three Bataclan killers: Sami Amimour, Ismaël Mostefaï and Fouad Mohamed Aggad. Amimour appears to have become […]
(BBC) Sir Keir Starmer has accused the government of failing to deliver on pledges to reduce migrant Channel crossings. The Labour leader said the UK had not secured “strong” agreements with France to prevent journeys from taking place. Crossings have hit record […]
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(BBC) Belarus’s authoritarian leader has told the BBC it is “absolutely possible” his forces helped migrants cross into Poland but denies they were invited. Thousands of migrants, mainly from the Middle East, have been trying to get into the EU via Belarus […]
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