I think it is concerning that new terror cells keep popping up in eastern Europe. Even if ISIS is defeated, these could continue to exist. However, at least law enforcement was aware that Inès posed a threat to safety. Yet, if they were aware they should have stopped the plan at an earlier stage. The gas cans could have exploded… Read more »
Residents have clashed with asylum-seekers in a town in eastern Germany that has become a flashpoint for anti-refugee sentiment. Some 80 men and women, many described as far-right, fought with 20 migrants and refugees in Bautzen. The asylum-seekers were chased to their hostel and put under police guard.
This Sunday’s parliamentary election is the eighth which I have witnessed or reported on in Russia since 1989. And, so far, it has been the least interesting. In Moscow there have been fewer election posters and banners on view than in previous years. Last week one Russian newspaper joked that the Duma election had been classified “Top Secret”, since voters… Read more »
Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn has called for Hungary to be suspended or even expelled from the European Union because of its “massive violation” of EU fundamental values. He cited the Budapest government’s treatment of refugees, independence of the judiciary and freedom of the press.
Hollande says terror cell ‘destroyed’ after new arrest in gas cylinder plot French police on Friday announced a new arrest in connection with an abandoned car found to contain gas cylinders in Paris over the weekend. The suspect is the boyfriend of a woman detained Thursday and is thought to have links to radical Islam. The suspect was arrested late… Read more »