Terrorism
Russia says it intercepted Islamic State attack plot
On 17 December, police killed two attackers targeting security forces in Russia's neighbouring republic of Chechnya.
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The new delay further sets back the timetable for the trial and it is unclear when the verdict - which was supposed to have been handed down last week - will be announced.
Such a response should focus on 'the development of common databases, the exchange of information or the strengthening of criminal policies,' French President Emmanuel Macron said after hosting a video conference with fellow EU leaders.
Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said the raids were aimed at "cutting off the roots of political Islam".
The French president sparked protests across the Muslim world after last month's murder of teacher Samuel Paty - who had shown his class a cartoon of Muhammad - by saying France would never renounce its laws permitting blasphemous caricatures.
Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said intelligence services had received a warning from neighbouring Slovakia that the assailant had tried to buy ammunition, but that 'a failure of communication' had followed.
Four people were killed when Kujtim Fejzulai, described as a 20-year-old IS sympathiser who had spent time in prison, opened fire with a Kalashnikov in a busy area of the Austrian capital the day before the country went into a new coronavirus lockdown.
The threat had been deemed 'substantial', where an attack is 'likely', since 4 November last year.
The attacks, in six locations including near a synagogue in the centre of town, were carried out by 'several suspects armed with rifles', police said.
The bloodshed inside Nice's Notre-Dame basilica early Thursday morning added new tension in a country already on the highest alert after a string of attacks blamed on suspected Islamists in recent weeks.
Smaller anti-France protests also took place in the Middle East after Macron's defence of the right to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad - a position that has sparked anger across the Muslim world.
Mohamed Ahmed Abdi and Hassan Hussein Mustafa, both 31, were found guilty on 7 October of conspiring with and supporting the four assailants from the Somalia-based jihadist group who died in what was then Kenya's worst terrorist attack in 15 years.
Michelle Bachelet voiced outrage at the attack Thursday in a church in Nice, where a knife attacker killed three people, cutting the throat of at least one woman.
The assailant, who was shot and wounded by police, was identified as 21-year-old Brahim Aouissaoui, who arrived in Italy last month, then travelled to France, judicial sources said.
A knife-wielding man killed three people at a church in Nice on Thursday, slitting the throat of at least one of them, in an attack that triggered global shock.
Condemnation came from the pope and European leaders as well as from Turkey, which is involved in a heated diplomatic spat with Paris over cartoons mocking the prophet.
A large meat cleaver found near the scene is believed to have been used by the attacker.
Rusesabagina, who has become a high-profile government critic and has been living in exile for years, appeared last month under arrest in Kigali in murky circumstances, with his family alleging he was kidnapped abroad.