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Date created : 09/01/2019 - 13:22 Belgian authorities have arrested another suspect in coection with the Paris terror attacks of November 2015, charging him with participating in the activities of ...

President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he was open to adding a specific mention of Corsica in the French Constitution but rejected several other demands for autonomy made by the island's nationalist leaders. Corsica's relationship with mainland France has long troubled French presidents. For 40 years, separatists waged a militant campaign, blowing up police stations and mansions owned by mainlanders and carrying out assassinations, before laying down their arms in 2014. The head of the regional govement, Gilles Simeoni, said that Macron had "missed an opportunity" to forge a new relationship with the island. During his first visit to Corsica since his election last year, Ma...

A Belgian court must acquit Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam over a shootout with police because of a legal language mix-up between Dutch and French, his defence lawyer said Thursday. Abdeslam, 28, refused to come to court in Brussels on Thursday, after accusing judges on the first day of the trial on Monday of being anti-Muslim and proclaiming he would only put his "trust in Allah". In Abdeslam's absence, lawyer Sven Mary sought the case's dismissal over a technicality in how the judges were named to investigate the gunbattle in Brussels in March 2016, in which three police offers were wounded. "It's a very Belgian story," said Mary, explaining that the top counter-terror ju...

Police in the northe Belgian city of Antwerp detained a French national on Thursday after he tried to drive a car into a major pedestrian shopping street at high speed.“At about 11am this moing a vehicle entered De Meir at high speed due to which pedestrians had to jump away,” a police spokesman...

Monday, March 20 is Jouée Inteationale de la Francophonie (Inteational French Language Day) and a French high school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a 100 percent graduation success rate is a showcase for promoting the language abroad.The Lycée Pasteur is a Francophone island in the heart of primar...

Belgian police missed 13 opportunities to unmask the participants of the deadly Paris November attacks before the events, according to an inteal report leaked to a newspaper on Saturday. The police report in the De Tijd daily shows that as early as February 2015, the force were in possession of phone records linking known terrorist suspects with Salah Abdeslam, allegedly the sole surviving member of the jihadist team that attacked Paris in November 2015. The information however was not handled, due to lack of investigators, De Tijd cites the report as saying. Of the 13 missed chances for Belgian police to catch some of the Paris attackers, six were due to staffing shortages, the secret repor...