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Man arrested with handguns at Disneyland Paris
French police arrested a man carrying two handguns at the Disneyland Paris amusement park outside Paris on Thursday, an Interior Ministry official said. A police source said the 28-year-old man of European origin had been carrying the two guns, including an automatic handgun, concealed in a bag that also contained a copy of the...
Military chiefs gather in Paris to bolster Islamic State fight
Defense chiefs from the United States, France, Britain and four other nations meet in Paris on Wednesday to examine ways to accelerate gains against Islamic State, including by potentially ramping up the number of police and army trainers. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter described the gathering as a chance for face-to-face...
Man dead ‘after coat became stuck in train doors’ on Paris Metro
Paramedics were called but the young man was reportedly pronounced dead at the scene A man has died on the Paris Metro after his coat became caught in the doors of a carriage and he was dragged along the platform, it has been reported. He was reportedly was unable to get free and was subsequently dragged the length of the...
Post-Soviet Holiday Camp in Artek: You do not expect to see THAT! (35 photos)
Claudine Doury is a French photographer living in Paris. She chose two main themes for her reports: exploring the changes in Eastern Europe, as well as the metamorphosis of juvenile period of life. In Paris in 2004, the book called: Artek, un été en Crimée (Artek, a summer in Crimea,...
Philip Kirkorov decided to marry (PHOTO)
The king of Russian pop music Phillip Kirkorov decided to marry. Chosen singer has become a model and TV presenter Victoria Lopyreva. In one of the restaurants he proposed marriage and gave a ring with a huge diamond. But please fans of Philip and Victoria early: the wedding did not take place. The fact that Philip...
Daily Mail: Paris attack mastermind ‘had photos of British targets on his phone’
Investigators have discovered that Abdelhamid Abaaoud had pictures of places in Birmingham stored on his smartphone, according to well-placed sources, raising the chilling possibility that his cell was planning atrocities in Britain, according to the Daily Mail. One source said the images may have been taken by Abaaoud himself,...
COP21: Landmark climate deal reached
A deal committing all countries to cut emissions, which will come into being in 2020 in an to attempt to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2C has been agreed at the climate change summit in Paris after two weeks of negotiations, BBC News reports. "Looking out to the room I see that the reaction is...
Turkey arrests three IS militants in connection with Paris attackstml
Three suspected militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (IHIL), including one who allegedly explored targeted sites prior to last week's attacks in Paris, have been arrested in the southern Turkish province of Antalya, according to Turkish daily newspaper Today's Zaman. According to the private...
WSJ: Paris attacks fan encryption debate
White House and congressional staffers have asked Silicon Valley executives for new talks in Washington, D.C., to resolve a standoff over encrypted communication tools in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, people familiar with the matter said, according to The Wall Street Journal. The approaches are among the most...
Reuters: Tapped phone led Paris attack leader to his death
Police watched the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks being led by a woman into an apartment the evening before both died there during a raid by special forces, a police source said on Friday, according to Reuters. After a tip-off from Morocco that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of Islamic State's most high-profile European...
ISIS vows to blow up White House in new video
The Islamic State terror group released a new, six-minute video Thursday vowing to blow up the White House, the latest ISIS video that emerged less than a week after the deadly attacks in Paris, according to Fox News. In the new video published on an ISIS-linked jihadi forum, one of two fighters threatened U.S. and French...
Paris terrorists caught in raid planned to attack airport, mall next
The jihadists holed up in a Paris suburb apartment had been planning to attack Charles de Gaulle Airport and a shopping mall before a special forces team stopped them in the nick of time in a predawn raid Wednesday, French media reported. French authorities said the terrorists in Saint-Denis comprised a fourth team of jihadists...