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Explained: Why Paris 2024 Will Be The Most High-Risk Olympics In History
The Paris Olympic Games will be one of the most high-risk in history owing to a combination of internal strife within France and heightened global geopolitical tensions.
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France's Macron Condemns Russia Gun Attack
French President Emmanuel Macron said he "strongly condemns the terrorist attack claimed by the Islamic State" that left at least 40 people dead and more than 100 injured in a Moscow concert hall on Friday, according to the Elysee Palace.
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Man Who Stabbed French Schoolteacher To Death Linked To ISIS: Prosecutor
The man who killed a schoolteacher in northern France last week was charged with terror offences on Tuesday, a prosecutor said, after revealing that he had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State extremist group in an audio recording before his attack.
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Suspect In Killing Of French Teacher Pledged Allegiance To ISIS: Lawyer
A 20-year-old man who fatally stabbed a teacher and wounded three others in an Oct. 13 attack at a French school had pledged allegiance to the Islamic state, French anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said on Tuesday.
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France On High Alert After Teacher Stabbed To Death In School
A 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a teacher and gravely wounded two other people in an attack at a school in the northern France city of Arras on Friday that President Emmanuel Macron condemned as "barbaric Islamic terrorism."
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France Claims Capture Of Key Islamic State Figure In Mali: Report
French troops deployed in Mali have captured a senior figure in the branch of the Islamic State extremist group in the Sahel region of Africa, the military said Wednesday.
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Afghanistan Overshadows Iraq Summit As France's Macron Warns Against IS
The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan overshadowed a summit in Iraq Saturday attended by key regional leaders, with French President Emmanuel Macron warning of the threat Islamic State group jihadists pose.
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ISIS Says Saudi Bomb Attack Targeted France Over Cartoons
The ISIS group said Thursday it carried out a bombing against a gathering of diplomats in Saudi Arabia, saying it was to protest French cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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After Comments On Islam, Posters Of France's Macron Pasted On Mumbai Road
Posters of France President Emmanuel Macron - whose defence of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed have angered several Muslim-majority nations - were pasted on the surface of Mumbai's Muhammad Ali Road on Thursday
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Paul Pogba Slams France Retirement Rumours As "Fake News"
Manchester United's Paul Pogba said on Monday reports claiming he had retired from international duty in protest against French President Emmanuel Macron's comments about radical Islam were "fake news".
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France Closes Paris Mosque In Clampdown Over Teacher's Beheading
French authorities said Tuesday they would close a Paris mosque in a clampdown on radical Islam that has yielded over a dozen arrests following the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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Paris Knife Attacker, Who Killed 4, Had "Radical Vision Of Islam"
Paris Knife Attack: A staffer at Paris police headquarters who stabbed four colleagues to death in a frenzied attack adhered to "a radical vision of Islam", an anti-terror prosecutor said Saturday.
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French Police Thwarted Attack On Sex Club A Month Ago, Sources Say
French police thwarted an attack on a swingers' club in the Loiret region north of Paris last month, arresting a "radicalised convert" to Islam, a source close to the inquiry said Thursday.
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Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan Paid Woman To Stay Silent About Affair
The prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, detained in France over rape allegations, paid a woman to stay silent about their relationship in 2015, the Belgian judiciary said.
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Prominent Islamic Scholar, Facing Rape Charges, Hospitalised In France
Prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who was remanded in custody in France on rape charges earlier in the month, has been hospitalised due to multiple sclerosis, his support group said Saturday.
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Explained: Why Paris 2024 Will Be The Most High-Risk Olympics In History
The Paris Olympic Games will be one of the most high-risk in history owing to a combination of internal strife within France and heightened global geopolitical tensions.
-
France's Macron Condemns Russia Gun Attack
French President Emmanuel Macron said he "strongly condemns the terrorist attack claimed by the Islamic State" that left at least 40 people dead and more than 100 injured in a Moscow concert hall on Friday, according to the Elysee Palace.
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Man Who Stabbed French Schoolteacher To Death Linked To ISIS: Prosecutor
The man who killed a schoolteacher in northern France last week was charged with terror offences on Tuesday, a prosecutor said, after revealing that he had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State extremist group in an audio recording before his attack.
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Suspect In Killing Of French Teacher Pledged Allegiance To ISIS: Lawyer
A 20-year-old man who fatally stabbed a teacher and wounded three others in an Oct. 13 attack at a French school had pledged allegiance to the Islamic state, French anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said on Tuesday.
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France On High Alert After Teacher Stabbed To Death In School
A 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a teacher and gravely wounded two other people in an attack at a school in the northern France city of Arras on Friday that President Emmanuel Macron condemned as "barbaric Islamic terrorism."
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France Claims Capture Of Key Islamic State Figure In Mali: Report
French troops deployed in Mali have captured a senior figure in the branch of the Islamic State extremist group in the Sahel region of Africa, the military said Wednesday.
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Afghanistan Overshadows Iraq Summit As France's Macron Warns Against IS
The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan overshadowed a summit in Iraq Saturday attended by key regional leaders, with French President Emmanuel Macron warning of the threat Islamic State group jihadists pose.
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ISIS Says Saudi Bomb Attack Targeted France Over Cartoons
The ISIS group said Thursday it carried out a bombing against a gathering of diplomats in Saudi Arabia, saying it was to protest French cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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After Comments On Islam, Posters Of France's Macron Pasted On Mumbai Road
Posters of France President Emmanuel Macron - whose defence of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed have angered several Muslim-majority nations - were pasted on the surface of Mumbai's Muhammad Ali Road on Thursday
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Paul Pogba Slams France Retirement Rumours As "Fake News"
Manchester United's Paul Pogba said on Monday reports claiming he had retired from international duty in protest against French President Emmanuel Macron's comments about radical Islam were "fake news".
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France Closes Paris Mosque In Clampdown Over Teacher's Beheading
French authorities said Tuesday they would close a Paris mosque in a clampdown on radical Islam that has yielded over a dozen arrests following the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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Paris Knife Attacker, Who Killed 4, Had "Radical Vision Of Islam"
Paris Knife Attack: A staffer at Paris police headquarters who stabbed four colleagues to death in a frenzied attack adhered to "a radical vision of Islam", an anti-terror prosecutor said Saturday.
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French Police Thwarted Attack On Sex Club A Month Ago, Sources Say
French police thwarted an attack on a swingers' club in the Loiret region north of Paris last month, arresting a "radicalised convert" to Islam, a source close to the inquiry said Thursday.
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Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan Paid Woman To Stay Silent About Affair
The prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, detained in France over rape allegations, paid a woman to stay silent about their relationship in 2015, the Belgian judiciary said.
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Prominent Islamic Scholar, Facing Rape Charges, Hospitalised In France
Prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who was remanded in custody in France on rape charges earlier in the month, has been hospitalised due to multiple sclerosis, his support group said Saturday.
