A French prosecutor on Thursday branded a homegrown group of Islamist extremists as the biggest terror threat the country has faced since the Algerian-based GIA carried out a string of deadly bombings in the 1990s.
Henrique Capriles, a youthful and energetic politician who has never lost an election, is the Venezuelan opposition's best hope in years of beating President Hugo Chavez.
French President Francois Hollande vowed to beef up security as police Sunday pressed on with sweeping anti-terror raids that saw one man killed and 11 arrested over an attack on a Jewish store.
''We are examining very carefully at this time in the EU the preconditions which could lead to a listing of Hezbollah as a terror group,'' the spokesman wrote.
The leader of a European Jewish organization has called on European Parliament President Martin Schulz to convene an “ urgent” session the assembly “in order to discuss how to cut down, as they bud, the hallucinatory anti-Semitic initiatives of French extreme-right leader Marine Le Pen.''
The head of a Tunisian Salafist group wanted by the authorities over an attack on the US embassy delivered a sermon Monday in a Tunis mosque that was surrounded by police.
The lawyer for US contractor Alan Gross, jailed in Cuba, rejected claims Thursday by Havana that he is in good health and renewed allegations by the man's relatives that his condition is worsening.
