Paris Terrorist Attackers

The sole surviving member of an Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015 has not appealed his whole-life sentence for the killings, the Paris chief prosecutor said Tuesday.

Carlos the Jackal, the leftist terrorist who carried out attacks across the globe in the 1970s and 1980s, opened a bid in a French court on Wednesday to reduce the life sentence he had been given for a deadly grenade attack on a Paris shop in 1974.

Cuba denounced the targeting of its Paris embassy on Monday as a "terrorist attack" encouraged by the United States after the building was bombarded with Molotov cocktails.

The man who injured two people in meat cleaver attack in Paris last week has been charged with "attempted murder with relation to a terrorist enterprise," French anti-terrorist prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday.

A primary suspect in the trial over the 2015 massacres at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and elsewhere in Paris denied on Friday any responsibility for the attacks carried out by terrorists, one of whom was a close associate.

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.

An ISIS terrorist suspected of beheading more than 100 people in Raqa and with possible links to the Paris and Brussels attacks has been captured in Syria, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said Saturday.

Dogged by France's stubbornly high unemployment throughout his presidency, Francois Hollande also faced an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks, violent protests over labour reforms and public airing of his tangled private life.

Two suspected terrorists arrested in Spain have admitted being in Brussels airport at the time of the deadly March 2016 attack but deny involvement, a court spokesman said Thursday.

French police are questioning 10 people on suspicion of supplying weapons to a terrorist who attacked a Jewish deli in Paris in January 2015, killing four Jewish hostages, police sources said on Wednesday.

Pro-globalisation centrist Emmanuel Macron and anti-immigration Marine Le Pen are Tuesday to attend a ceremony honouring the policeman killed by a terrorist in an attack on the Champs Elysees, as they push ahead with France's presidential race.

In 2015, as terrorists fired into a crowd of terrified concert-goers in Paris, Xavier Jugele was outside the Bataclan, helping the wounded.

Tourists were back on the Champs Elysees early Friday with a mixture of shock and defiance, a day after a terrorist shot dead a policeman on the world-famous avenue on the eve of France's election.

Iran sent its condolences Friday over the latest terrorists attack in Paris, but said France was feeling the blowback from its "concessions" towards "brutal terrorists" in Syria, state media reported.

US President Donald Trump on Friday said a deadly attack in Paris claimed by the ISIS group "will have a big effect" on France's upcoming presidential vote.

The sole surviving member of an Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015 has not appealed his whole-life sentence for the killings, the Paris chief prosecutor said Tuesday.

Carlos the Jackal, the leftist terrorist who carried out attacks across the globe in the 1970s and 1980s, opened a bid in a French court on Wednesday to reduce the life sentence he had been given for a deadly grenade attack on a Paris shop in 1974.

Cuba denounced the targeting of its Paris embassy on Monday as a "terrorist attack" encouraged by the United States after the building was bombarded with Molotov cocktails.

The man who injured two people in meat cleaver attack in Paris last week has been charged with "attempted murder with relation to a terrorist enterprise," French anti-terrorist prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday.

A primary suspect in the trial over the 2015 massacres at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and elsewhere in Paris denied on Friday any responsibility for the attacks carried out by terrorists, one of whom was a close associate.

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.

An ISIS terrorist suspected of beheading more than 100 people in Raqa and with possible links to the Paris and Brussels attacks has been captured in Syria, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said Saturday.

Dogged by France's stubbornly high unemployment throughout his presidency, Francois Hollande also faced an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks, violent protests over labour reforms and public airing of his tangled private life.

Two suspected terrorists arrested in Spain have admitted being in Brussels airport at the time of the deadly March 2016 attack but deny involvement, a court spokesman said Thursday.

French police are questioning 10 people on suspicion of supplying weapons to a terrorist who attacked a Jewish deli in Paris in January 2015, killing four Jewish hostages, police sources said on Wednesday.

Pro-globalisation centrist Emmanuel Macron and anti-immigration Marine Le Pen are Tuesday to attend a ceremony honouring the policeman killed by a terrorist in an attack on the Champs Elysees, as they push ahead with France's presidential race.

In 2015, as terrorists fired into a crowd of terrified concert-goers in Paris, Xavier Jugele was outside the Bataclan, helping the wounded.

Tourists were back on the Champs Elysees early Friday with a mixture of shock and defiance, a day after a terrorist shot dead a policeman on the world-famous avenue on the eve of France's election.

Iran sent its condolences Friday over the latest terrorists attack in Paris, but said France was feeling the blowback from its "concessions" towards "brutal terrorists" in Syria, state media reported.

US President Donald Trump on Friday said a deadly attack in Paris claimed by the ISIS group "will have a big effect" on France's upcoming presidential vote.