(AFP) Poland on Monday announced plans for a barbed-wire fence along its border with Belarus following an influx of migrants which countries in the region called a “hybrid attack” on the EU. Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said the fence would be 2.5 […]
(AFP) France has placed under surveillance an Afghan evacuated from Kabul who is suspected of links to the Taliban, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday. About 1,300 Afghans have in recent days been evacuated by France via a military base in […]
(AFP) Over 100 migrants were rescued in the Channel on Saturday as they tried to reach Britain on makeshift boats, the French maritime prefecture said. A first boat carrying 38 migrants was reported in difficulty off Boulogne, the authorities said. The migrants […]
(AFP) The last time the Taliban were in power, social networks were a thing of the future — but this time around, the militants’ takeover of Afghanistan poses tricky questions for the likes of Facebook and Twitter. As their arrival in Kabul […]
(AFP) Barcelona staged a low-key ceremony on Tuesday in memory of the 16 people who died during attacks in the Spanish city and a nearby resort four years ago. Wearing face masks and maintaining social distance because of the pandemic, dozens of […]
(AFP) As violence in Libya has waned this year, the number of would-be migrants to Europe intercepted so far has doubled compared to the same period of 2020, experts say. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says 20,257 people have been intercepted […]
(AFP) Ukraine has sent more than 38 tonnes of barbed wire to Lithuania as “humanitarian aid” as the EU country struggles to stem an influx of illegal migrants from neighbouring Belarus, authorities said on Thursday. In July, Lithuania’s military started to put […]
(AFP) An Austrian court has sentenced two men to jail over their involvement with the Islamic State group in Syria, a spokeswoman said Wednesday, following a high-profile trial in the country that had one of Europe’s largest per capita rates of IS […]
(AFP) Britain and France on Monday signed a new security deal aimed at protecting the public in the event of a terror attack in the Channel against a large vessel such as a passenger ferry, the British government said. The UK-France Maritime […]
(AFP) Towns along France’s northern coast on Thursday limited takeaway sales of fuel to 10 litres per customer to curb illegal migration across the Channel, a local newspaper reported Thursday. “Buying or selling more than 10 litres of fuel — petrol or […]
(AFP) More than 230 migrants crossed the Moroccan border into Spain’s Melilla enclave before dawn on Thursday, in one of the largest influxes into this tiny North African territory in recent years. The incident occurred two months after an unprecedented 10,000 people […]
(AFP) With a pair of binoculars, a German police officer working for the EU border agency Frontex scans an empty field crossed by the Belarus-Lithuania border on the lookout for migrants. The Baltic EU member state has seen more than 2,000 arrivals […]
(AFP) Danish artist Kurt Westergaard, famed for drawing a caricature [of] the Prophet Mohammed which sparked outrage around the Muslim world, has died at the age [of] 86, his family told Danish media on Sunday. Westergaard passed away in his sleep after […]
(AFP) Tchinda said the longed-for destination of his risky Aegean crossing — the island of Kos — was already tantalisingly in view when Greek vessels halted the boat he was sailing in along with 30 other migrants. “First a navy ship blocked […]
(AFP) For most French people Bastille Day is synonymous with military pomp and parties, but in the southern city of Nice the country’s national holiday also conjures up visions of horror. On Wednesday, the Mediterranean city will pause to mark five years […]
(AFP) Afghanistan has urged European countries to halt forced deportations of Afghan migrants for the next three months, as security forces battle a wave of violence triggered by a dizzying Taliban offensive. The United Nations said on Sunday the rising conflict is […]
(AFP) A French teenager whose criticism of Islam saw her targeted with a barrage of online abuse met with the imam of the main Paris mosque [Thursday], a visit she said she hoped would “calm things down for everyone.” It came a […]
(AFP) Belgium on Thursday transferred suspect Mohamed Abrini to France to stand trial in September among 14 people accused of involvement in the 2015 Paris attacks, sources close to the case said. Abrini — known as the “man in the hat” from […]
(AFP) Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday pressed US allies to bring back citizens arrested overseas for joining the Islamic State group, warning they could not be held indefinitely in Syria. Blinken made the appeal in Rome at a meeting of […]
(AFP) Investigators were racing Saturday to pinpoint the motive of a man who went on a knife rampage in the German city of Wuerzburg, killing three people and leaving five seriously injured. The suspect, a 24-year-old Somali who arrived in Wuerzburg in […]
(AFP) Germany’s Bundestag lower house of parliament passed a law on Friday outlawing symbols of groups designated as terrorist organisations by the EU, including the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. The new law, which must still be approved by the Bundesrat upper house, […]
(AFP) A Somali man killed three people and left five others seriously injured in an “incredibly brutal” knife rampage in the southern German city of Wuerzburg. The 24-year-old suspect staged the attack in the city centre at around 5 pm (1500 GMT), […]
(AFP) Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Greek authorities of the “torture, ill-treatment and illegal pushbacks” of refugees and migrants to Turkey, arguing that the practice had become “de facto” border policy. In a new report, the rights group described 21 incidents it […]
(AFP) The trial of an Egyptian who attacked soldiers at the Louvre museum with machetes, shouting “Allah u Akbar” (God is greatest), opened Monday with a description of his “atypical” and enigmatic profile. Abdalla El Hamahmi, aged 33, is charged with “attempted […]
(AFP) Germany has launched a state-backed training centre for imams to help reduce the number of Islamic leaders coming in from abroad, but the initiative has been shunned by leading Turkish groups. Around 40 aspiring religious leaders attended their first classes at […]
(AFP) A French man of North African origin has accused Netflix of racial discrimination for labelling him a radical Islamist in an action movie for which he was filmed without his knowledge, his lawyer said Monday. “Sentinelle,” set in the southern city […]
(AFP) A Greek court on Saturday sentenced four Afghan asylum seekers convicted of starting fires that burnt down Europe’s largest migrant camp last year to 10 years in prison each. The court in Chios found the defendants guilty of arson while their […]
(AFP) Four young Afghan asylum-seekers went on trial in Greece on Friday accused of starting the devastating fires that burnt down Europe’s largest migrant camp last year. The Moria camp on the Aegean island of Lesbos was home to more than 10,000 […]
(AFP) Italian police said Friday they arrested seven people accused of supplying fake identity papers to terrorists, including the suspect behind last year’s deadly attack in Vienna. The suspects, described as “eastern European citizens,” produced “thousands of forged documents, also for the […]
(AFP) As the sun dips into the wetlands of northeastern Evros, Greece’s river border with Turkey, two Greek guards climb into a boat to begin their daily lookout for irregular migrants. Siren blaring, and with flamingos flying overhead, the guards sail past […]
(AFP) Four men went on trial in Paris on Monday over the Islamist murder of a police officer on the Champs-Elysees avenue on the eve of France’s 2017 presidential election. Xavier Jugele was sitting at the wheel of a parked police bus […]
(AFP) The Austrian Catholic church on Friday became the latest religious group to criticise a government-backed online map of hundreds of Muslim organisations which sparked violence against the Muslim minority. The highly controversial map shows details of more than 600 Muslim associations […]
(AFP) French security forces dismantled a new migrant camp on the outskirts of the northern port of Calais on Friday which was home to hundreds of people hoping to travel across the Channel to Britain. The head of the region and mayor […]
(AFP) Thirteen people went on trial in France on Thursday for online harassment, including death threats, against a teenage girl who was placed under police protection after posting anti-Islam rants on social media. The treatment of Mila, who was forced to change […]
(AFP) Hungarian counterterror police said Wednesday they had arrested an “Islamist” terror suspect who plotted to attack mass events, including the Euro 2020 football tournament venue in Budapest, local media reported. The 21-year-old male was “a completely average young Hungarian” who identified […]
(AFP) Police in Italy are searching for the body of an 18-year-old girl suspected to have been killed by her Pakistani family after refusing an arranged Muslim marriage. The girl’s parents, an uncle and two cousins are under investigation for murder, lieutenant […]
(AFP) Residents of a small French town laid cards and flowers Saturday at the spot where a “very kind” and “gentle” policewoman was seriously wounded in a knife attack the day before, the latest in a spate of attacks on officers. The […]
(AFP) A “known radical” suspected of carrying out a knife attack in France died from injuries sustained in a shootout with police Friday, hours [after] badly wounding a female officer in another act of violence against police. The man, who was on […]
(AFP) A Spanish court on Thursday handed jail terms of up to 53 years to three men who helped the jihadists behind the 2017 Barcelona attacks that killed 16 people. The Islamic State (IS) group claimed the bloodshed of August 17-18, 2017, […]
(AFP) The Austrian government came under fire Thursday for a new “Islam map” showing the location of mosques and associations around the country, with religious groups saying it would stigmatise Austria’s Muslim population. Earlier, Integration Minister Susanne Raab unveiled an internet website […]
(AFP) Cyprus said Friday it is in a “state of emergency” because of an inflow of Syrian migrants that has flooded its reception centres, appealing for help from the European Union. Cyprus has this week faced a “daily wave of migrant arrivals” […]
(AFP) When she first heard that thousands of people were flooding across the border from Morocco into Spain’s Ceuta enclave, Gloria Nisrin admits she panicked. “To be honest I was a bit scared because some people were saying they wanted to remove […]
(AFP) Spain accused Morocco of “blackmail” on Thursday for allowing a record 8,000 migrants to reach the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta, sparking a crisis that saw clashes on the Moroccan side of the border overnight. Spanish authorities were caught by […]
(AFP) An Italian judge on Wednesday dropped the case against a German captain arrested for forcibly docking her ship with migrants on board, the NGO that operates the vessel said. Carola Rackete was arrested in June 2019 after guiding the Sea-Watch 3 […]
(AFP) Exhausted and ashen-faced, Moroccan teenager Amal waited all night to join thousands who dream of reaching Europe through a tiny Spanish enclave on North Africa’s Mediterranean coast. “We know it’s an adventure but death doesn’t scare me. It’s dying poor, here, […]
(AFP) Denmark announced Tuesday that it plans to repatriate 19 Danish children of Syrian jihadists, and three of their mothers, because of the poor conditions in the camps they are being held in. The decision was made after a report by a […]
(AFP) From the UN to Amnesty, fears abound that a new Swiss anti-terror law, which grants sweeping new powers to police to prevent future attacks, threatens Switzerland’s heritage as a human rights leader. Shocked by the deadly terror attacks in neighbouring France […]
(AFP) At least 2,700 migrants, some 1,000 of them minors, reached Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Monday, Spanish officials said, a record in a single day. A spokesman for the Spanish government delegation in Ceuta said the numbers arriving Monday […]
(AFP) Italian far-right leader Matteo Salvini avoided trial on Friday on charges he illegally detained migrants at sea, ending one of his legal troubles even as another related case looms. Judge Nunzio Sarpietro in the Sicilian city of Catania threw out the […]
(AFP) Italy is pushing EU partners to revive migrant burden-sharing deals as it seeks to stave off a summertime surge in landings from North Africa, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Wednesday. Migration has returned to the top of the political agenda in […]
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