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Migrant death toll mounts: At least 20 people drown as two boats capsize
At least 21 people have drowned after boats smuggling migrants capsized in two separate incidents.
Dutch arrest 10 men for using Bitcoin to launder €20m drugs money
Ten men suspected of using the digital currency Bitcoin to launder up to €20 million ($22 million) of criminal money made from online drug deals have...
Fire hits renovated Paris Ritz ‘Princess Diana hotel’ weeks before reopening
Flames ripped through the top floor of the luxury Ritz Paris hotel on Tuesday – the hotel where Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed spent their last hours...
Carmaker Renault to recall 15,000 vehicles in latest emissions issues twist
French car maker Renault is to recall 15,000 vehicles to check their engines. French transport minister Segolene Royal said the vehicles were being recalled...
Avalanche kills 5 soldiers during French Alps training
An avalanche in the French Alps swept away a military unit on a training exercise, killing five soldiers and injuring several others Monday, officials...
German town bans male asylum seekers from public pool after women harassed
A German town has banned male asylum seekers from a public swimming pool after women complained they were being sexually harassed.
Male asylum-seekers are banned from swimming pool over sex harassment fears
Male asylum-seekers have been banned from a public swimming pool after women complained they were being sexually harassed.
At least 2 dead, 5 missing as avalanche sweeps away children in French Alps
Two teenage children have died and several others have been badly injured after a group of school pupils skiing in the French Alps was hit by an avalanche. Four...
Belgian police pinpoint three safe houses used by Paris attack plotters
Belgian police have found two apartments and a house used by suspects before they carried out the terror attacks in Paris, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The...
We will throw out more migrants in wake of sex attacks, warns minister
More foreign criminals would be expelled once new restrictions are rolled out in the wake of sexual attacks on women blamed on migrants in Cologne, German...
Strolling with a friend, new film shows Paris most wanted day after attacks
A French TV station has released security footage it says is of the Paris attacks prime suspect Salah Abdeslam the day after the deadly attacks. The...
‘Revenge attacks’ as migrants targeted by mobs on prowl in Cologne
A group of migrants has been attacked by a mob in Cologne, Germany, amid continuing tensions over the assaults on New Year’s Eve. Police said...
A year of tears: Thousands remember victims of Paris’s 12 months of terror
French president Francois Hollande joined relatives of victims at a ceremony on Sunday to honor those killed in extremist violence in Paris last year.
Cologne New Year’s Eve sex attack rampage ‘was planned on social media’
The shocking spate of sexual assaults during new year festivities in Cologne was organised, Germany’s justice minister Heiko Maas said on Sunday. "For...
Thousands march in Basque heartland for return of ETA prisoners
Tens of thousands protested in Bilbao, northern Spain calling for the return of more than 400 prisoners linked to the Basque separatist group ETA who are...
Thousands march in Bilbao for return of ETA prisoners
Tens of thousands protested in Bilbao, northern Spain calling for the return of more than 400 prisoners linked to the Basque separatist group ETA who are...
Merkel backs tougher laws on refugees as Cologne protest turns violent
German riot police broke up far-right protesters in Cologne on Saturday as they marched against Germany’s open-door migration policy after dozens...
Suicide belts and traces of explosives found in Paris attacker’s Brussels hideout
Explosives, suicide belts and the fingerprint of Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam were found in a Brussels apartment, prosecutors say.
Boy’s late-night bicycle dash in his pyjamas saves father after heart attack
A boy of five saved his father’s life when he had a heart attack, by rushing out of his house in his pyjamas and trying to get help on his bike.
Police in Paris shoot dead knife-wielding man wearing ‘fake explosives vest’
A knifeman thought to have been wearing a suicide vest has been shot dead outside a police station in northern Paris.
Man wearing ‘fake explosives vest’ shot dead by Paris cops as city remembers Charlie Hebdo
A man has been shot dead outside a police station in northern Paris because cops feared he was wearing a suicide vest.
Germany identifies three suspects in New Year attacks on women
German police have identified three suspects in connection with attacks on women at New Year celebrations in the city of Cologne but have not yet made...
Protests after gangs of men sexually assault scores of women in German city
Protesters have taken to the streets in Germany after about 90 women were sexually assaulted, robbed or threatened during New Year celebrations.
1,000 men sexually assault or mug 80 women in German city during one night
German police are holding crisis talks with officials in Cologne after at least 80 women reported being sexually assaulted or mugged by gangs of men on...
1,000 men mug and sexually assault 80 women in German city on one night
German police are holding crisis talks with officials in Cologne after at least 80 women reported being sexually assaulted and mugged by gangs of men on...
Charlie Hebdo reveals special edition one year on from massacre
French magazine Charlie Hebdo will mark the anniversary of an Islamist attack on its Paris offices with an edition featuring an armed man representing...
Pope calls for ‘end to false neutrality and indifference’ which fuels suffering
Pope Francis has called for an end to the “arrogance of the powerful” which relegates the weak to the outskirts of society and to the “false...
‘Heavy wave’ kills one and injures two on North Sea gas drilling rig
A worker has died after a heavy wave slammed into a North Sea drilling rig. The man was among three injured when the water slammed into the Chinese-owned...
Two held in Belgium over ‘terror plot to cause New Year carnage’
Two people suspected of plotting militant attacks in Brussels on New Year’s Eve have been arrested, prosecutors in Belgium have revealed.
Two held in Belgium over ‘ISIS plot to cause New Year carnage’
Two people suspected of plotting militant attacks in Brussels on New Year’s Eve have been arrested, prosecutors in Belgium have revealed.
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