(AFP) Greece was on a state of alert Sunday as it faced an influx of thousands of migrants seeking to cross the border from Turkey, with locals fearing a new immigration crisis. “This is an invasion,” said Giorgos Karampatzakis, mayor of Marassia […]
(AFP) A group of local people on the Greek island of Lesbos on Sunday stopped around 50 migrants, including children, from landing their boat after several hours at sea, AFP photographers witnessed. Shouting “Go back to Turkey,” furious locals at the port […]
(AFP) Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday threatened to let thousands of refugees cross into Europe and warned Damascus would “pay a price” after dozens of Turkish troops were killed inside Syria. Around 13,000 migrants have gathered along the Turkish-Greek border, […]
(AFP) Some attempt to cut through a barbed wire fence while others hunt for wood and rocks to throw at police. The thousands of migrants at the Kastanies border town between Turkey and Greece are desperate to reach Europe and furious with […]
(AFP) Greece blocked hundreds of migrants trying to enter the country on Friday after Turkey said it would open the gates for refugees from Syria to enter the European Union. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that “illegal” entries would not be […]
(AFP) More than 1,000 people rallied on the Greek island of Lesbos on Thursday to protest against new migrant camps, a day after violent clashes left more than 60 injured, mostly police officers. Lesbos businesses and unions called for a general strike […]
(AFP) Hundreds of protesters on the Greek island of Lesbos on Wednesday threw stones at police who responded with tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets, an AFP photographer said, on a second day of demonstrations against the construction of new migrant […]
(AFP) A French court on Tuesday handed a 12-year jail term to a computer technician who travelled to Syria to wage jihad and trained under the suspected ringleader of the 2015 Paris attacks. Reda Hame, 34, who was convicted of participating in […]
(AFP) For many of those who live on the Greek Aegean island of Samos it is absolutely clear — they want no more refugees, no new camps and to be left alone as they were before the migrant crisis broke in 2015. […]
(AFP) Far-right lawmakers took aim at French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday after a woman wearing a full-face veil approached him ahead of a speech announcing new measures to fight Islamic “separatism” in the country. Such veils, known as niqabs, have become […]
(AFP) Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has been charged with raping two women besides two others he was already facing accusations over, his lawyer told AFP Thursday. The 57-year-old Ramadan, a Swiss national, was already charged in France with raping a disabled woman […]
(AFP) After rising to and falling from government with his “Italians first” rallying cry and anti-migrant diatribes, far-right leader Matteo Salvini remains hugely popular and has set his sights on a return to power despite an impending trial. The 46-year-old from Milan, […]
(AFP) Norway’s government on Wednesday gave the go-ahead to extradite a fundamentalist Islamic preacher to Italy, where he has been sentenced to prison for leading a jihadist network. The 63-year-old Iraqi Kurdish man — known as Mullah Krekar, but named Najumuddin Faraj […]
(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron has defended a French teenager who received death threats after an expletive-laden Instagram rant against Islam, saying the right to blaspheme was enshrined in the constitution and she needs to be protected, in comments published Wednesday. The […]
(AFP) French police on Tuesday cleared the last migrant tent camp in northeast Paris, moving 427 people to shelters as part of a plan to take migrants off the streets. The migrants, who included four women, were living in 266 tents and […]
(AFP) An outspoken French teenager has reignited a polarising debate over free speech in the country after an expletive-laden Instagram rant against Islam that has forced her to stay home from school on safety fears. The case of 16-year-old Mila — who […]
(AFP) Police on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday fired tear gas at hundreds of migrants protesting against tougher new asylum rules, officials said. Brandishing makeshift signs with the word “freedom,” some 2,000 men and women walked out of the overpopulated […]
(AFP) A court in Germany ruled Monday against an attempt by authorities in Hamburg to forbid a 16-year-old schoolgirl from wearing a niqab during lessons. The ruling, which cannot be appealed, has fuelled debate in Germany over whether schools should allow the […]
(AFP) A senior member of Syrian Islamist armed group Jaysh al-Islam implicated in the disappearance of a prominent activist in 2013 has been arrested in France and charged with war crimes and torture, a judicial source told AFP on Friday. The suspect, […]
(AFP) Police moved hundreds of migrants from a makeshift camp in northern Paris early on Tuesday, the latest attempt to discourage asylum seekers from living in the streets of the French capital. Police said 1,436 people — including 93 children and 1,187 […]
(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron drew a sharp rebuke from the country’s top magistrates on Monday for criticising a court ruling on the 2017 murder of a Jewish woman in Paris. Sarah Halimi, an Orthodox Jewish woman in her sixties, died after […]
(AFP) Thousands of residents on Greek islands hosting large migrant camps kicked off a day of protests on Wednesday, demanding the immediate removal of asylum seekers. The islanders of Lesbos, Samos and Chios staged a general strike, shutting down shops and public […]
(AFP) In an overcrowded desert camp for families linked to the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria, a French woman begged for another chance so she and her children could go home. In the same settlement, two other French women were more […]
(AFP) Security forces on Monday arrested seven men believed to be planning a terror attack in France and preparing to travel to conflict zones in Iraq and Syria, sources close to the case told AFP. [They] were detained by France’s DGSI domestic […]
(AFP) Norway’s populist Progress Party said Monday it was leaving the right-wing coalition government over the repatriation of a suspected Islamic State member and her two children last week. “We don’t compromise with people who have voluntarily joined terror organisations. That was […]
(AFP) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned Europe it could face new threats from terrorist organisations if Libya’s UN-recognised government in Tripoli were to fall. In the article, published on the Politico news website on the eve of a Libya […]
(AFP) Norway said Tuesday it was repatriating from Syria a woman linked to the Islamic State group and her two children, one of them reportedly seriously ill, citing humanitarian reasons. Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide, confirming the operation to bring them home, […]
(AFP) German police on Monday said they had found no indication yet that a knife-wielding Turkish man shot dead after trying to attack officers had a terrorist motive, adding that he had psychological problems. The 37-year-old struck a parked patrol car with […]
(AFP) German police have shot dead a knife-wielding Turkish man who sought to attack officers in the city of Gelsenkirchen. The man, who lived in Gelsenkirchen, struck a patrol car with an object on Sunday and sought to assail officers standing by […]
(AFP) French police shot and injured a knife-wielding man in the northeastern city of Metz on Sunday, two days after a suspected Islamist radical stabbed a man to death near Paris, investigators said. Metz public prosecutor Christian Mercuri told AFP the man […]
(AFP) French anti-terrorist investigators said Saturday they have taken over the probe into an attack by a knife-wielding man who killed one person walking with his wife in a park south of Paris before being shot dead by police. Police said the […]
(AFP) A knife-wielding man ran amok Friday in a park south of Paris, killing a man walking with his wife and wounding two other people before being shot dead by police, officials said. The Paris police department said the man, identified as […]
(AFP) Over 2,300 migrants had to be rescued attempting to cross the English Channel in 2019, four times the number for 2018, local authorities in northern France said on Tuesday. In total 261 cases of crossings or attempted crossings were recorded by […]
(AFP) Half as many migrants landed on Italian shores in 2019 compared with the year before, the latest interior ministry figures show. Italy has struggled to cope with a flood of immigrants in recent years and has called on other European Union […]
(AFP) Austrian authorities have foiled a plot to carry out a series of terror attacks, including bombing one of Vienna’s Christmas markets, local media reported Monday. The plot involved three men, including a 24-year-old ringleader who had been influenced by the ideology of […]
(AFP) A Paris court on Thursday sentenced a jihadist to 30 years in prison over his February 2015 knife attack on three soldiers guarding a Jewish centre in the Mediterranean city of Nice. Moussa Coulibaly, now 35, staged his assault just weeks […]
(AFP) A Bulgarian imam was jailed for eight and a half years on Tuesday for spreading the ideas of the Islamic State group and propagating hatred and war on religious grounds. The regional court in the southern city of Pazardzhik also handed […]
(AFP) A Saudi military student reportedly condemned America as a “nation of evil” in an online manifesto prior to opening fire Friday at a US naval base, killing three people before being shot dead by police. The shooting, which took place in […]
(AFP) French prosecutors called Friday for 20 suspects to go on trial over the massacre of 130 people by suicide bombers and gunmen in Paris four years ago. In a 562-page indictment, the office of the national anti-terror prosecutor (PNAT) charged 14 […]
(AFP) Syria’s Kurds have handed over an American toddler and three German children and their mother to their respective governments, a Kurdish official and a Kurdish source said on Saturday. After years of leading the battle against the Islamic State group in […]
(AFP) A Paris court on Friday sentenced a jailed Islamist radical to 28 years imprisonment for the attempted murder of two prison wardens in September 2016, the first jihadist attack in a French prison. Bilal Taghi was serving a five-year sentence for […]
(AFP) The celebrated Christmas market in France’s eastern city of Strasbourg opened for another festive season on Friday, with shopkeepers and visitors vowing not to be cowed by an attack last year by a radical Islamist gunman that killed five people. The […]
(AFP) A French court on Wednesday jailed Anne Diana Clain, whose two brothers were notorious propagandists for Islamic State, for nine years for terrorist association. Paris’s criminal courts handed down the sentence to Clain, 44, for having attempted between 2015 and 2016 […]
(AFP) The United States and its European allies clashed Thursday over what to do with thousands of jihadists jailed in Syria, with Washington calling a French proposal to try fighters in Iraq “irresponsible.” Senior officials from more than 30 countries pledged greater […]
(AFP) Over 10,000 people turned out north of Paris on Sunday for a march against Islamophobia that drew criticism from both the government and the far right. It was called following last month’s attack on a mosque in the southern French city […]
(AFP) French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe vowed Wednesday to “take back control” of the country’s migration flows by imposing quotas on certain categories of skilled migrants and cutting back benefits available to asylum seekers. President Emmanuel Macron has for months been talking […]
(AFP) Italy’s new Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said in an interview published Friday that there was no migrant “invasion,” countering statements by her hardline anti-immigration predecessor Matteo Salvini. Lamorgese told the Repubblica newspaper that this year 9,600 migrants and asylum-seekers had arrived […]
(AFP) The situation for migrants in camps on Greek islands is “explosive” and “on the edge of catastrophe,” the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights said Thursday. Greece has once again become the main point of entry for people seeking asylum […]
(AFP) Italy has renewed a controversial agreement signed in 2017 with [the] Libyan coastguard to block illegal migrants trying to leave from the North African country’s coast, the government has said. Libya, wracked by conflict since the 2011 uprising that killed dictator […]
(AFP) Belgian authorities have been ordered to repatriate a woman who joined the Islamic State group and her two children from the camp in Syria where she is being held, a lawyer for her family said Thursday. The Belgian government has 75 […]
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