France: 2 Americans subdue gunman on high-speed train
By GREG KELLER A gunman opened fire on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday, wounding two people before two American passengers subdued him, officials said. French…
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EU leaders commit ships, aid for action on Med migrants
European Union leaders on Thursday started committing new resources to save lives in the Mediterranean at an emergency summit convened after hundreds of migrants drowned in the space of a…
Bulgaria extradites man suspected of link to French attacks
A Frenchman wanted in connection with deadly terrorist attacks in Paris has been extradited from Bulgaria to France, where he is facing charges of links to terrorism. Fritz-Joly Joachin was…
5 Chechens arrested in France, including 1 with explosives
By LORI HINNANT and SYLVIE CORBET Five ethnic Chechens from Russia have been arrested in southern France, including one with a cache of explosives, a local mayor said Tuesday as…
5 Chechens arrested in France, including 1 with explosives
By SYLVIE CORBET and LORI HINNANT Five Russians have been arrested in southern France, including one with a cache of explosives, a local mayor said Tuesday as four other men…
To counter terror, Europe’s police reconsider their arms
By LORI HINNANT One was a young policewoman, unarmed on the outskirts of Paris and felled by an assault rifle. Her partner, also without weapons, could do nothing to stop…
Court upholds Paris police ban of anti-Islamist rally
By GREG KELLER and RAF CASERTA French court has upheld the Paris police chief’s order to ban a planned demonstration against radical Islamists in the wake of France’s worst terrorism…
Europe Terror: A tale of 2 separate but similar plots
By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG France and Belgium have been rocked by back-to-back events linked to terrorism, but the sole connection for now seems to be their common objective: to strike a…