France preparing for potential terror threats at 'bold' opening ceremony
'It's the largest, most elaborate kind of security planning outside of war.'
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France raises terrorist attack alert to its highest level after Moscow massacre
The move comes three months before Paris hosts the Olympic Games.
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Eight in France convicted of roles in Bastille Day truck attack
A French court has convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack by an Islamic State sympathiser that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day.
Terror attack
Rare sentence for lone surviving Paris terrorist
It is the most severe sentence possible in France, and very rare.
France
Scars from 2015 Paris stadium bombing still pain victims
It is often viewed as the forgotten attack of November 13, 2015, when 130 people died during an assault from Islamic State extremists.
Paris Attacks
Trial of 20 men accused in 2015 Paris attacks begins
Nine gunmen and suicide bombers struck within minutes of each other at France's national soccer stadium, the Bataclan concert hall and Paris restaurants and cafes on November 13, 2015.
Paris Attacks
France marks five years since deadly attacks on Bataclan
In silence and mourning, France marked five years since 130 people were killed by Islamic State extremists who targeted the Bataclan concert hall, Paris cafes and the national stadium in a series of coordinated attacks
France
Terrorist who beheaded French teacher texted with student's father
The terrorist who beheaded a teacher in France on Friday had been texting with the father of one of his pupils.
France
French gunman linked to yellow vests frees hostages
A 17-year-old gunman took four hostages in a French convenience store for more than four hours before releasing them.
France
Woman sues Twitter, Facebook, Google over 2015 Paris attacks
A Chicago-area woman who was at a cafe in Paris during the 2015 attacks is suing Twitter, Facebook and Google alleging the sites helped aid the growth of the Islamic State group by giving it social media access.
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Three years after attack Charlie Hebdo still dogged by death threats
Three years after the terrorist attack on the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the publication is struggling with a massive security bill and plummeting sales.
World
Champs Elysees attacker was on radical Islam watchlist
Paris prosecutor's counter-terrorism unit has opened an investigation into the driver who rammed a car a car into a police van on the Champs-Elysees.
FranceFrench media pull attackers' photos over 'glorification' fears
Several major media outlets in France said they would no longer use photographs of killers responsible for terror attacks to avoid giving them "posthumous glorification".
France
France priest killer was 'Syria obsessed time-bomb'
One of the assailants who slit the throat of an elderly French priest had dreamed of going to Syria and threatened to attack churches but seldom visited his local mosque, neighbours said.
France
Dad and son on dream European holiday among 84 killed in Nice truck terror attack
Sean Copeland and his young son Brodie were on the holiday of a lifetime, starting in Spain before making their way south to the picturesque French town of Nice.
Paris Attacks
British tourist says Nice carnage ruined her shopping trip
A British tourist has apologised after she said the terrorist attack that killed 84 people in Nice had spoiled her shopping trip.
Paris Attacks
US expose sinister puppet master who moves ISIL terrorists across Europe
A $5million bounty has been placed on the head of a sinister ISIL 'gatekeeper' who helped six Paris suicide bombers travel from Syria to France to carry out their deadly mission.
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Man who 'owned Paris apartment' says he let terrorists into his home as a favour
The young man who 'owned' the Paris apartment where French commandos fired 5000 rounds and killed two terrorists in a dramatic pre-dawn raid claims he had no idea who was holed up in his home.
Paris Attacks
French attacks suspect was held by Dutch police over drugs
A key suspect in last week's terror attacks in Paris was briefly held and fined in February for possession of cannabis.
Paris Attacks
'They have guns but we have flowers'
A moving exchange between a frightened young boy and his father at a vigil to victims of the Paris terror attacks gives a unique insight into how innocent children make sense of the tragedy and offers a glimmer of hope.
Paris Attacks
ISIL warns that nations bombing Syria will suffer Paris-style atacks
ISIL militants have warned nations taking part in the Syrian bombing campaign that their cities will suffer the same fate as Paris, in a new video released overnight.
Paris AttacksBataclan survivor haunted by the eyes of massacre gunman
An Italian businessman who survived the massacre at the Bataclan concert hall said the one moment stuck in his mind was not the scores of dead but the eyes of one of the terrorists responsible for the carnage.
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Anti-Islam protesters disrupt peaceful French terror memorial
A large group of French mourners have clashed with anti-Islam protesters in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
France terrorThree brothers involved in Paris terror attacks: report
Three brothers were involved in the Paris attacks that claimed 129 lives of whom one may still be at large, according to sources close to the investigation.
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Paris would've been different if French had guns: Trump
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said the terror strikes in Paris that killed at least 129 "would have been different" if civilians had been armed.
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Belgian police arrest Paris terror suspect in Brussels
Heavily armed police in Belgium have arrested a suspect in the Paris terror attacks near a metro station in Brussels.
Paris AttacksPope credited with saving tourist from concert slaughter 30 years after he escaped stadium tragedy
An Italian tourist had a second lucky escape when he emerged from the Bataclan theatre masscare with only a slight injury, 30 years after surviving a deadly disaster at a Begian football stadium.
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Car used in massacres found in Paris suburb: police
A black Seat car used by gunmen who slaughtered people in restaurants during the Paris attacks on Friday has been found in the eastern suburb of Montreuil, police said.
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Photo emerges of passport allegedly belonging to Paris attacker
A photo of a Syrian passport allegedly belonging to the one of the Paris attackers has been published by a Serbian media outlet.
Paris AttacksRaids conducted in Belgium suburb where three Paris attackers allegedly came from
Three of the eight attackers who allegedly took part in the Paris terror attacks that left 128 people dead are reportedly all from the same neighbourhood in the Belgian capital Brussels.
Paris AttacksParis theatre gunman was French extremist known to police: report
One of the terrorists allegedly responsible for the Paris attacks that left 128 people dead was a French extremist known to police, according to reports.
Paris AttacksVolunteers who helped after Germanwings tragedy caught up in Paris terror attacks
More than 1000 volunteers who helped after a Germanwings co-pilot deliberately crashed his aircraft in the French Alps killing all 150 people on board were caught in the lockdown at the Stade de France after two suicide bomb attacks on Friday night.
Paris AttacksParis terror attacks: What we know so far
At least 127 people have been killed and 82 left critically injured in a series of seven attacks carried out by eight suicide bombers in Paris on Friday evening.
Paris AttacksFrenchman identified as possible concert hall attacker: police sources
A French national is believed to be among four men who stormed a Paris concert hall killing at least 82 people.
Paris Attacks
Concertgoers dangle from windows to escape Paris theatre massacre
As terrorists methodically executed music fans in a Paris theatre, terrified concertgoers leapt from second storey windows in a desperate bid to escape the carnage that left dozens dead.
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France promises merciless retribution as world lights up in solidarity
French President Francois Hollande has promised merciless retribution for those connected with six co-ordinated terror attacks that claimed at least 120 lives in Paris overnight.
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French PM warns of more terror attacks
The prime minister of France has warned his country must be on alert for more terror attacks, after a man pinned a severed head to the gates of a factory.
Unrest
France foils 'imminent' church attack by jihadist sympathiser
A French IT student and known jihadist sympathiser has been arrested for allegedly planning attacks on churches, some three months after Paris was hit by an extremist killing spree.
Europe
Four arrested over links to Paris Jewish supermarket attacker
France has arrested four people believed to have been friends with Amedy Coulibaly, who killed five people during the January 7-9 Paris attacks.
Unrest
Hundreds of tombs defaced in Jewish cemetery in France
France's interior minister said Sunday several hundred tombs have been defaced at a Jewish cemetery in east of the country, in what he called "a despicable act".
Europe
Surviving Charlie Hebdo cartoonist found forgiveness in new cover
One of the only surviving cartoonists of the satirical magazine targeted in France's deadliest terror attack has spoken of his guilt at having drawn the cover he says was responsible for the attack on his office.
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Friend of Charlie Hebdo attackers extradited from Bulgaria
A friend of the Charlie Hebdo attackers has been extradited to France from Bulgaria but denies knowing anything about the Paris terror raid.
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French police interrogate eight-year-old boy over terrorism comments in class
An eight-year-old boy in France was questioned by police after he allegedly made comments in school in praise of terrorists, police said.
World
Four Paris attack suspects appear in court over terror offences
Four men have appeared in court suspected of providing Amedy Coulibaly with weapons and vehicles in the Paris attacks.
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'Intrusive, expansive' French surveillance laws failed to stop terror attacks: Snowden
French intelligence did not prevent the Paris attacks despite benefiting from "most intrusive" surveillance laws because suspects are "buried under data", US whistleblower Edward Snowden said on Wednesday.
World
Paris to sue Fox News for reports on Muslim 'no-go zones'
The city of Paris says it plans to sue US network Fox News for reports that there were "no-go zones" in the French capital that police and non-Muslims avoid.
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Paris gunman buried amid violent anti-Charlie Hebdo protests
Charlie Hebdo gunman Cherif Kouachi has been buried in an unmarked grave near Paris, as protests erupt around the world over the French magazine’s depiction of the Prophet Mohammed.
PARIS MASSACRE
Mali-born Paris siege hero to receive French nationality
A Malian described as a "hero" after he helped hostages at a Jewish supermarket to hide during last week's Paris attacks will be awarded French nationality Tuesday, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
Europe
French President says Muslims main victims of fanaticism
French President Francois Hollande has said Muslims are the "main victims" of fanaticism, as five of the 17 killed in last week's Islamist attacks in Paris were laid to rest.
Politics
Female police officer rammed by car in Paris: reports
A female police officer in Paris has reportedly been injured in an attack outside the presidential residence.
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