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  • A French police officer stands guard in front of the Festival Palace in Cannes on 10 May 2016, on the eve of the beginning of the 69th Cannes film festival. Picture: Loic Venance/AFP.

    Cannes Festival to open today amid tight security

    The world's biggest film festival has recruited 500 extra personnel in the wake of terror attacks.

    2208 days ago
  • An Islamic State group (IS) flag and banner in Iraq. Picture: AFP.

    Reports: Islamic State planned simultaneous attacks in UK, Germany

    It’s believed the attacks weren’t carried out as they found it difficult to acquire the explosives.

    2216 days ago
  • FILE: Salah Abdeslam was placed under formal investigation on terrorism and murder charges in France on Wednesday after his extradition from Belgium. Picture: French Police Nationale.

    #ParisAttack: Suspect Abdeslam under formal investigation

    Salah Abdeslam is being investigated on terrorism & murder charges after his extradition from Belgium.

    2221 days ago
  • Abdeslam Salah is wanted by French police following the Paris attacks on Friday 13 November 2015. Picture: French Police Nationale.

    Suspect in #ParisAttacks extradited to France from Belgium

    Salah Abdeslam, 26, was Europe’s most wanted fugitive until his capture in Brussels on 18 March.

    2221 days ago
  • FILE: Abdeslam Salah. Picture: French Police Nationale.

    'Paris attack suspect didn't have papers on German nuclear research centre'

    The RND media group cited sources saying a committee was told in March about the documents on Juelich.

    2234 days ago
  • FILE. A security perimeter has been set, on 22 March, 2016 near Maalbeek metro station in Brussels, after a blast at this station near the EU institutions caused deaths and injuries. Picture: AFP.

    Isis cell in #BrusselsAttacks originally planned new attack on France

    Members of the group had already been involved in November’s atrocity which left 130 people dead in Paris.

    2238 days ago
  • Osama K is believed to be the man on the right wearing the hat. This screengrab shows three suspects believed to be involved in the attacks in Brussels. Picture: AFP

    Last main Brussels & Paris suspects held, threat remains

    Osama K. was filmed buying bags used to carry Brussels bombs.

    2239 days ago
  • FILE: Picture: Supplied.

    Belgian media: Paris, Belgium attacks suspect arrested

    It’s reported that Mohamed Abrini was among several people detained in connection with Brussels bombings.

    2240 days ago
  • FILE. People gather outside Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on 15 November 2015 during mass in homage victims two days after a series of deadly attacks. Picture: AFP.

    Belgium to release man held over #ParisAttacks

    Belgian national Abdellah C will be released on Friday under strict conditions.

    2240 days ago
  • Salah Abdeslam has admitted to investigators that he wanted to blow himself up along with others on the night of the November Paris attacks. Picture: French Police Nationale.

    Lawyer: Captured Paris attack suspect 'worth weight in gold' to police

    Salah Abdeslam was captured in a Brussels shootout on Friday.

    2258 days ago
  • Abdeslam Salah. Abdeslam Salah.

    'I was a suicide bomber' - Paris suspect charged in Belgium

    The admission by Salah Abdeslam came a day after he was shot in the leg and captured during a police raid.

    2259 days ago
  • Salah Abdeslam, suspected Paris attacks organiser, captured in Brussels.

    Paris attacks organiser Salah Abdeslam captured

    Paris attacks organiser Salah Abdeslam captured

    2260 days ago
  • Belgian police officers stand guard in a street during a police action in the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean district in Brussels, on 18 March 2016. Picture: AFP.

    Europe's most wanted held in Brussels for #ParisAttacks

    Salah Abdeslam is the first suspected active participant taken alive & is being held in hospital.

    2261 days ago
  • Police officers set a security perimeter near the site where shots were fired at Belgian police, on March 15, 2016 in Brussels. The shots were fired as Belgian police carried out an operation linked to the Paris attacks, as Belgian police continue their hunt for Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in the November attacks which killed 130 people, who comes from Brussels. Picture: AFP.

    Prosecutor: Fugitive from Paris attacks arrested in Brussels shootout

    Media reported Salah Abdeslam, the 26-year-old French suspect was wounded in the operation.

    2261 days ago
  • FILE: Abdeslam Salah is wanted by French police following the Paris attacks on Friday 13 November 2015. Picture: French Police Nationale

    Paris suspect's prints found in Brussels raid

    Authorities said the prints of Salah Abdeslam were found at the apartment but would give no further detail.

    2261 days ago
  • FILE: Police found an Islamic State flag in the apartment used by Mohamed Belkaid and two others. Picture: AFP.

    Algerian named as dead Brussels gunman, manhunt goes on

    The prosecutors said a radical Islamic text was found next to Belkaid's body and a cache of ammunition.

    2263 days ago
  • Police officers set a security perimeter near the site where shots were fired at Belgian police, on March 15, 2016 in Brussels. The shots were fired as Belgian police carried out an operation linked to the Paris attacks, as Belgian police continue their hunt for Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in the November attacks which killed 130 people, who comes from Brussels. Picture: AFP.

    Police kill gunman in Brussels siege linked to Paris attacks

    Belgian daily DH said one suspect was shot dead after being spotted in a nearby garden.

    2264 days ago
  • FILE: Soldiers and police patrol on Brussels' Grand Place as the Belgian capital remains on the highest possible alert level on November 23, 2015.Picture: AFP.

    Brussels police hunt fleeing gunman in Paris probe

    Three officers were injured during a raid in search of the suspects in the Islamic State attacks on Paris.

    2264 days ago
  • FILE: Jesse Hughes from American rock band Eagles of Death Metal. Picture: Aletta Harris/EWN.

    Eagles of Death Metal frontman apologises for comments on Paris attack

    Hughes said in an interview that six security guards failed to appear for work at the Bataclan on 13 November.

    2266 days ago
  • Spectators wait on the pitch of the Stade de France stadium in Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris' suburb on November 13, 2015 after a series of gun attacks occurred across Paris as well as explosions outside the national stadium where France was hosting Germany. Picture:AFP

    ‘UEFA Championship matches could be played behind closed doors’

    UEFA is drawing up anti-terror contingency plans for the event in France.

    2277 days ago
  • Spectators wait on the pitch of the Stade de France stadium in Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris' suburb on November 13, 2015 after a series of gun attacks occurred across Paris as well as explosions outside the national stadium where France was hosting Germany. Picture:AFP

    Stade de France reopens for first time since Paris attacks

    Coordinated attacks claimed by Isis on bars, restaurants and a concert hall killed 130 in the French capital.

    2302 days ago
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