A Paris court has convicted all 14 suspects charged with involvement in the 2015 Islamic terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket. The defendants, accomplices of the terrorists who carried out those attacks, received between 30 to 4-year sentences.

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Last month’s beheading of a Paris school teacher and the subsequent terror attack in the city of Nice appear to be connected, evidence uncovered by the French investigators shows. The Tunisian Muslim immigrant, Brahim al-Aouissaoui, who beheaded a 70-year old woman and two other worshipers in Nice’s Notre Dame church may...

An unidentified gunman shot a Greek Orthodox priest on Saturday afternoon at a church in the French city of Lyon. The priest sustained serious injuries and is “fighting for his life,” news reports said.

Police have launched a manhunt around the city. “Security and emergency personnel are at the scene,” France’s Interior...

A knife-wielding jihadi beheaded a woman and murdered two others at a church this morning in southern France.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called for a boycott of French goods over the country’s response to a school teacher’s beheading in Paris.

“Never give credit to French-labelled goods, don’t buy them,” he said in a televised speech. “I am calling to all my citizens from here to never help...

Police in France have arrested a Muslim leader who reportedly issued a fatwa, or the Islamic death warrant, on the school teacher beheaded in Paris on Friday, the French-language newspaper Le Soir confirmed on Monday.

The suspect, Abdelhakim Sefrioui, leads an organization called “Cheikh Yassine Collective,” which was set up in the...

A French teacher was beheaded by an Islamist in a Paris suburb on Friday for discussing Muhammad caricatures with his class. The knife-wielding attacker, identified as an 18-year-old immigrant, shouted “Allahu Akbar” at the scene of...

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has reprinted the Mohammed cartoons as the trials for the 2015 Islamic terror attack begins at a Paris court this week. “We will never lie down. We will never give up,” magazine’s editor Laurent “Riss” Sourisseau wrote in its latest edition.

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France has deployed riot police in the country’s second biggest city Marseille to enforce face mask rules aimed at quelling the spread of Wuhan coronavirus. “Government spokesperson Gabriel Attal announced on Monday that 130 police officers are being sent to Marseille, a coastal city in south-eastern France,” French TV channel ...

Arson is suspected in a fire that has ravaged the famous 15th-century cathedral in the French city of Nantes, blowing out stained-glass windows and destroying a grand organ.

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Europe witnessed a wave of anti-lockdown protests on Saturday. Germany saw a huge surge in demonstrations. Thousands came out in Berlin, Munich, and Stuttgart against the measures imposed in the wake of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Police used tear gas to disperse protesters in Warsaw, Poland and arrests were made in...

The European Union is launching a diplomatic campaign to stop Israel from applying sovereignty over parts of the Judea and Samaria region, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell declared on Friday. “We must work to discourage any possible initiative toward annexation,” he said.

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European governments are moving towards the easing of Wuhan coronavirus lockdowns, media reports suggest. Many European countries, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy, have begun working on their respective “exit plans” to restore normalcy as the spread of coronavirus in their countries slows down.

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As nations around the world struggle to deal with outbreaks of the Wuhan coronavirus, China is now experiencing the first phase of what could be considered social distancing on an international scale.

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Today’s update will start with the highlight from today’s Coronavirus Task Force briefing.

While not nearly as entertaining as the media smack-down in yesterday’s session, it was almost as satisfying in the wake of the deception by the World Health Organization during the early stages of the COVID-19 panic.

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The European Union (EU) fears that China could exploit the economic downturn caused by the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak to take over European companies.

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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has called on his countrymen to buy domestic products as the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak cripples the European single market. Describing his approach as “economic patriotism,” he urged French supermarkets to ‘stock French products.’

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