Harlem Desir

Nations must share intelligence to stop extremist groups slipping across borders and using the Internet to plan attacks, ministers insisted today as they sought concrete commitments to halt intel failures.

European Union foreign ministers are set today to revive Turkey's efforts to join the bloc by agreeing to open talks on the EU's financial rules, as part of a bigger deal to help Europe solve its migration crisis.

French President Francois Hollande said his country was doing "everything" it can to save a Frenchman accused of drug offences in Indonesia from the firing squad after he lost an appeal against his death sentence on Monday.

A French drug convict lost an appeal against his death sentence today, but his lawyers vowed to fight on and prevent another foreigner from facing the firing squad in Indonesia after a series of executions that generated an international uproar.

President Francois Hollande was widely criticised on Sunday for offering to allow a deported immigrant teenager back into France without her family, and a poll showed his approval ratings at a record low.

Nations must share intelligence to stop extremist groups slipping across borders and using the Internet to plan attacks, ministers insisted today as they sought concrete commitments to halt intel failures.

European Union foreign ministers are set today to revive Turkey's efforts to join the bloc by agreeing to open talks on the EU's financial rules, as part of a bigger deal to help Europe solve its migration crisis.

French President Francois Hollande said his country was doing "everything" it can to save a Frenchman accused of drug offences in Indonesia from the firing squad after he lost an appeal against his death sentence on Monday.

A French drug convict lost an appeal against his death sentence today, but his lawyers vowed to fight on and prevent another foreigner from facing the firing squad in Indonesia after a series of executions that generated an international uproar.

President Francois Hollande was widely criticised on Sunday for offering to allow a deported immigrant teenager back into France without her family, and a poll showed his approval ratings at a record low.