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Issued on: 23/04/2021 - 16:38 French prosecutors have begun a terrorism investigation into the fatal stabbing of a French police official at her station in Rambouillet, outside Paris. Police shot and killed the attacker at the scene. Anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard told reporters that his office took over the ...

Protesters rallied in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Saturday against France's position on publishing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.  Activists from the far-right Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party and Karachi residents took to the streets, calling for the Pakistani government to cut diplomatic and trade ties with France. Previously, the ...

Political cartoons are a treasured French tradition, going back to the revolution of 1789. Ever since, intrepid caricaturists have risked life and liberty to oppose authoritarian regimes and defend freedoms through their drawings. President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that tradition when he said, “We will not give up cartoons, drawings, ...

Issued on: 02/11/2020 - 11:37 French schools reopened Monday for the first time since the beheading of a teacher who opened a class debate on free speech by showing students caricatures of the prophet of Islam, in mourning and under tight security for a national homage. Samuel Paty was ...

French schools held a nationwide minute of silence Monday in tribute to a teacher who was beheaded for opening a class debate on free speech by showing students caricatures of the prophet of Islam.Samuel Paty was killed on Oct. 16 outside his school in suburban Paris by an 18-year-old ...

France has faced its own share of terrorist attacks, including from among its own radicalised Muslims. The latest cycle, which has left the country in shock, began with the beheading of Samuel Paty, a school teacher on October 16, killed by an 18-year-old Chechen refugee who was enraged because ...

After three people died in a knife attack in Nice this week that French President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist attack”, there was a sense of déjà vu – we have seen this before.Amid the sadness of innocent lives taken in a most horrible fashion, there is a ...

Is radical Islam up against western secularism? A somewhat longish context may be necessary. It would seem so from the fast-paced developments following the cold-blooded beheading of a Paris school teacher on October 16 by a Chechen refugee, Abdullakh Anzorov. The killer, who within minutes of the beheading of ...

Issued on: 27/10/2020 - 17:23 France is increasing security at religious sites as the interior minister said Tuesday that the country faces a “very high” risk of terrorist threats, amid growing geopolitical tensions following the beheading of a teacher who showed his class caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. French ...

Economists have downplayed the threat to French exports as calls to boycott French goods spread across the Muslim world in a backlash over the hardened stance France has taken against radical Islamists in the wake of the brutal murder of a teacher. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan became the ...