French Embassy Attacked

A Mali-based al Qaeda affiliate claimed responsibility on Saturday for attacks in neighbouring Burkina Faso that left 16 people dead, including eight gunmen, at the army headquarters and French embassy, Mauritanian news agency Alakhbar reported.

Attackers in Burkina Faso's capital killed eight people and wounded dozens more in a coordinated assault on the army headquarters and French embassy that France's foreign minister said was likely carried out by "terrorist groups".

Unidentified attackers on a motorcycle threw an explosive device at the French embassy in central Athens early on Thursday, wounding a guard, police said, in an attack that came less than a week before US President Barack Obama visits the city.

Prince William and his wife Kate, as well as British Prime Minister David Cameron, signed a book of condolences at the French embassy and ambassador's residence on Tuesday after the Paris attacks.

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Paris on Monday for talks after the attacks on the French capital, vowing to defeat terrorism as he stood before a US embassy lit up in the colours of the French flag.

Up to 20,000 people, among them Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, gathered for a candlelight vigil at the gates of the French embassy in Copenhagen Sunday to mourn the victims of the Paris attacks, police said.

Berlin police today boosted security in the German capital, with barricades put up at French sites including the embassy, after the attacks in Paris that left at least 128 people dead.

Security was today stepped up in the national capital especially outside the French embassy, government buildings and international airport in New Delhi following an alert by intelligence agencies in the wake of terror strikes in Paris in which over 120 people have been killed.

A car bomb hit the France embassy in Libya on Tuesday, wounding two French guards and causing extensive damage, in the first attack on a foreign mission since militants stormed the US consulate in Benghazi in September.

Dozens of Iranians angered over an anti-Islam film made in the U.S. and caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a weekly in France have attacked the French Embassy in Tehran.

With reports of a terror attack plot being unearthed against its Embassy in Paris, India today said the mission has been "fully alert" to security issues and was in touch with relevant French authorities in this regard.

Officials from the French embassy in Delhi were in Chandigarh this morning to collect the body of a French citizen who died after being beaten unconscious on a train travelling through Haryana.

France is temporarily downsizing its embassy in Iran and will bring some employees and their families home, a French official said on Saturday. The move is the latest fallout from protesters' storming of the British embassy in Tehran and adds to the international pressure on the Iranian government.

A Mali-based al Qaeda affiliate claimed responsibility on Saturday for attacks in neighbouring Burkina Faso that left 16 people dead, including eight gunmen, at the army headquarters and French embassy, Mauritanian news agency Alakhbar reported.

Attackers in Burkina Faso's capital killed eight people and wounded dozens more in a coordinated assault on the army headquarters and French embassy that France's foreign minister said was likely carried out by "terrorist groups".

Unidentified attackers on a motorcycle threw an explosive device at the French embassy in central Athens early on Thursday, wounding a guard, police said, in an attack that came less than a week before US President Barack Obama visits the city.

Prince William and his wife Kate, as well as British Prime Minister David Cameron, signed a book of condolences at the French embassy and ambassador's residence on Tuesday after the Paris attacks.

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Paris on Monday for talks after the attacks on the French capital, vowing to defeat terrorism as he stood before a US embassy lit up in the colours of the French flag.

Up to 20,000 people, among them Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, gathered for a candlelight vigil at the gates of the French embassy in Copenhagen Sunday to mourn the victims of the Paris attacks, police said.

Berlin police today boosted security in the German capital, with barricades put up at French sites including the embassy, after the attacks in Paris that left at least 128 people dead.

Security was today stepped up in the national capital especially outside the French embassy, government buildings and international airport in New Delhi following an alert by intelligence agencies in the wake of terror strikes in Paris in which over 120 people have been killed.

A car bomb hit the France embassy in Libya on Tuesday, wounding two French guards and causing extensive damage, in the first attack on a foreign mission since militants stormed the US consulate in Benghazi in September.

Dozens of Iranians angered over an anti-Islam film made in the U.S. and caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a weekly in France have attacked the French Embassy in Tehran.

With reports of a terror attack plot being unearthed against its Embassy in Paris, India today said the mission has been "fully alert" to security issues and was in touch with relevant French authorities in this regard.

Officials from the French embassy in Delhi were in Chandigarh this morning to collect the body of a French citizen who died after being beaten unconscious on a train travelling through Haryana.

France is temporarily downsizing its embassy in Iran and will bring some employees and their families home, a French official said on Saturday. The move is the latest fallout from protesters' storming of the British embassy in Tehran and adds to the international pressure on the Iranian government.