(AFP) Germany’s new government on Wednesday said that it would reject most asylum seekers at its borders as conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz seeks to limit irregular immigration and curb the rise of the far-right. The move is a key part of Merz’s […]
(AFP) Several thousand Turkish Cypriots marched on Friday to protest a new regulation allowing pupils to wear Islamic headscarves in secondary schools, a move critics say threatens the community’s secular traditions. The rule, introduced in March in the breakaway Turkish Republic of […]
(AFP) A Syrian Islamist rebel ex-spokesman went on trial in France on Tuesday under the principle of universal jurisdiction, accused of complicity in war crimes during Syria’s civil war. As his trial opened, Majdi Nema, 36, told the court in Paris there […]
(AFP) Iraqi authorities have arrested a suspected member of the Islamic State group for inciting a January truck-ramming attack that killed 14 people in the US city of New Orleans, Iraq’s judiciary said Sunday. The city in the southern state of Louisiana […]
(AFP) France will repatriate French jihadists detained in Iraq, Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Friday, adding that detainees held in other countries could follow. Darmanin told a question and answer session with the Voix du Nord newspaper that the three from […]
(AFP) A teenager who attacked a rabbi in a central French city was sentenced to 16 months in prison by the juvenile court on Wednesday, after a long day of hearings in which he denied responsibility. The attack took place last month […]
(AFP) A French court ruled that a Muslim school could continue to receive state subsidies after local authorities in 2023 cut funding over alleged “serious breaches” of teaching rules, the court and its management said. Private schools can receive state subsidies in […]
(AFP) Italian anti-terrorism police said on Friday they had arrested a Tunisian citizen suspected of working as an “organiser” for the Islamic State group, which they said was planning to attack Italy. The resident of Cosenza, in the southern region of Calabria, […]
(AFP) The European Union on Wednesday published a list of seven countries it considers “safe,” in a bid to speed up migrant returns by making it harder for citizens of those nations to claim asylum in the bloc. The list — which […]
(AFP) A few months ago in Brussels, Arthur Langerman was telling high school pupils about losing family members in the Holocaust and escaping a Nazi raid himself, when he was cut short by two Muslim teens wanting to talk about Gaza. “It’s […]
(AFP) A Vienna court on Wednesday convicted an Austrian woman brought back from a Syrian detention camp for having been part of the Islamic State group, but ordered her jail sentence to be suspended in the first such case in the country. […]
(AFP) Germany said Monday it was investigating potential foreign influence in a series of recent attacks after a media report alleged that actors in Russia may have played a role in some of them. The spate of attacks blamed on asylum seekers […]
(AFP) A French court on Monday jailed for life an Algerian supporter of the Islamic State jihadist group after finding him guilty of attempted murder over a bomb attack that wounded 13 people in 2019. Mohamed Medjdoub, 29, remained seated and did […]
(AFP) Police arrested two men in Paris on Sunday for criminal conspiracy in relation with a terrorist undertaking and possession of explosives, said France’s national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office (PNAT). French media reported that the main suspect, a 19-year-old living in northern France, […]
(AFP) On the outskirts of Paris, 44-year-old French Muslim weightlifter Sylvie Eberena concentrates hard and pushes 80 kilos of bar and weights clean over her veiled head. The single mother made her four children proud when she became the French national champion […]
(AFP) A French court on Friday condemned a man who burned his 31-year-old wife alive to life imprisonment, in a case that shocked the country and sparked criticism of police for failing to protect her. Mounir Boutaa, 48, will have to serve […]
(AFP) Austria announced Wednesday that it would pause family reunifications for those with asylum status starting in May, becoming the first in the European Union to do so. Several EU countries are mulling stopping or tightening the right for people who cannot […]
(AFP) A French court on Friday sentenced a French jihadist to life in prison for holding four journalists captive more than a decade ago in war-torn Syria. Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, was convicted of having held the French reporters hostage for the Islamic […]
(AFP) Prosecutors demanded a life sentence on Wednesday for a French jihadist on trial charged with holding journalists hostage in Syria for the Islamic State group. Prosecutor Benjamin Chambre called Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, “one of the most perverse and cruel jihadists of […]
(AFP) Germany’s conservative election winner Friedrich Merz said on Saturday he had agreed on tough restrictions on irregular immigration in talks with his likely future governing partners. Europe’s biggest economy would reject undocumented migrants at its borders, including asylum seekers, said Merz […]
(AFP) Syrian refugee Khaled Alnomman said he made a big effort to integrate since he fled to Austria 10 years ago, learning to speak German fluently, getting a job as a bricklayer and applying for citizenship. The youngest of his four children […]
(AFP) A public Roman university, La Sapienza, said Friday it had cancelled a pro-Palestinian student group’s event to present a book written by the slain leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar. The presentation by the Palestinian Student Movement was due to […]
(AFP) Two Afghan men linked to the Islamic State group were jailed in Germany on Thursday for planning an attack on the Swedish parliament in retaliation for Koran burnings by protestors. The two suspects, identified as Ibrahim M. G. and Ramin N., […]
(AFP) A French court on Wednesday sentenced a Tunisian man to life in prison without parole for killing three people with a knife in a church in the southern city of Nice in 2020. Brahim Aouissaoui, 25, this week admitted he was […]
(AFP) In Albania’s capital, Baba Mondi envisions a Vatican-like state for his Bektashi faith on a tiny scrap of land that would serve as a model for love and tolerance. Last year, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced plans to establish a […]
(AFP) A French court on Monday found an Algerian online influencer guilty of inciting terrorism on TikTok, sentencing him to 18 months in jail. The 25-year-old man, identified by officials as Youcef A. and known on social media as Zazou Youssef, had […]
(AFP) A man who went on a stabbing rampage in France, killing one and wounding several others in what President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist act,” was on a terrorism watchlist and subject to deportation orders, according to authorities. The knife-wielding […]
(AFP) The daughter of [a] murdered British aid worker this week at the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish after her father went missing in war-torn Syria in 2013. In a Paris court on […]
(AFP) German police said Friday they had arrested a male suspect over a stabbing that badly wounded a 30-year-old Spanish man at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial near the US embassy. The unidentified attacker used a “stabbing weapon” in the assault around 6:00 pm […]
(AFP) A French court on Thursday postponed a much-awaited decision on freeing pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed 40 years ago for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats. The Paris appeals court, which had been scheduled to deliver its verdict […]
(AFP) France’s right-dominated Senate has backed a bill to ban religious symbols including the Muslim headscarf in all sport competitions, professional and amateur, sparking accusations of discrimination from the left and rights advocates. The bill still needs a majority of votes from […]
(AFP) Five men went on trial in France on Monday charged with holding four French journalists hostage for the Islamic State jihadist group in war-torn Syria more than a decade ago. IS emerged in 2013 in the chaos that followed the outbreak […]
(AFP) A Syrian asylum seeker was arrested after a teenager was stabbed to death and five other people were wounded in southern Austria Saturday, police said, sending shock waves through the Alpine nation. The attack comes just two days after a suspected […]
(AFP) A Swedish court on Friday sentenced a man to three years in jail for joining the Islamic State (IS) group, the country’s first conviction since new legislation was introduced banning participation in a terrorist group. The 22-year-old man was convicted of […]
(AFP) Police arrested an Afghan asylum seeker at the scene of what German leaders labelled a car ramming “attack” Thursday that wounded 30 people, some seriously, in the southern city of Munich. The carnage came on the eve of an international security […]
(AFP) An Afghan man with suspected jihadist motives goes on trial in Germany on Thursday over a knife attack that killed a policeman and wounded five others at an anti-Islam rally last year. The hearings will start less than two weeks before […]
(AFP) A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country’s first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority. Accused of keeping Yazidi women and children […]
(AFP) Far-right Dutch leader Geert Wilders threatened on Monday to force early elections if a landmark immigration bill did not pass quickly despite the country’s top advisory body calling for an overhaul. For months the shaky coalition governing the Netherlands has been […]
(AFP) A Tunisian man went on trial Monday accused of stabbing to death three people in a church in the southern French city of Nice in 2020, but his insistence that he had no recollection of the events provoked anger among relatives […]
(AFP) Denmark’s strict immigration policies resulted in the granting of just 860 asylum requests last year, the lowest number with the exception of 2020, when Covid-19 lockdowns halted new arrivals. Denmark’s immigration approach has been influenced by the far-right parties for over […]
(AFP) A Stockholm court on Monday convicted a man of inciting ethnic hatred during four Koran burnings in 2023 that sparked outrage in Muslim countries, a verdict that reignited debate about the limits of freedom of expression. The verdict came just days […]
(AFP) Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who was shot dead late Wednesday in Sweden, stoked international controversy with his Koran burnings. In June 2023, the 38-year-old with a chequered past sparked outrage when he stomped on the Islamic holy book and wrapped it […]
(AFP) Germany’s ex-chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in Thursday on a controversy flaring ahead of February elections, slamming her party successor for relying on far-right support on the flashpoint issue of immigration. Conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz sparked outrage Wednesday when he pushed […]
(AFP) An Iraqi refugee in Sweden who repeatedly burned the Koran in 2023, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, investigators said Thursday, with Sweden’s prime minister suggesting a “foreign power” might have been involved. Prosecutor Rasmus Oman confirmed to […]
(AFP) Prime Minister Francois Bayrou felt compelled on Tuesday to defend remarks about immigrants “flooding” France after drawing sharp rebukes, including from his allies, but winning applause from the anti-immigration right. The leftist opposition accused Bayrou of spreading far-right ideas and centrist […]
(AFP) With Germany reeling from another deadly knife attack by a migrant suspect, experts warned that the inability of asylum seekers to access mental health services has added to their existing vulnerabilities. Wednesday’s stabbing in Aschaffenburg, which claimed the lives of a […]
(AFP) Denmark charged two people on Friday under its law banning desecration of the Koran, a first for legislation adopted after a series of holy book burnings that sparked outrage among Muslims, authorities said. The pair, whose identities were not disclosed, are […]
(AFP) A court in Norway on Friday jailed two sisters for being members of the Islamic State (IS) group, after they secretly travelled to Syria as teens in 2013. Now aged 27 and 31, the pair were convicted of being members of […]
(AFP) A Paris court on Thursday sentenced a Pakistani man to 30 years in jail for attempting to murder two people outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo in 2020 with a meat cleaver. When he carried out the attack, 29-year-old Zaheer […]
(AFP) A deadly knife attack on a play school group in Germany, where an Afghan man was arrested at the scene, reignited a bitter immigration debate on Thursday, a month before elections. Germany was stunned by the latest in a series of […]
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