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Kosovo: protesters demand minister's resignation

Sport

Hope Sole suspended from US women's soccer team for 'incident'

Olympic Gold medalist Hope Solo has been suspended from the US women’s natIonal football team for 30 days. The goalkeeper was involved in an

France

'Social divisions were there in the past' admits French PM on announcement of new anti-terror tactics

Multi-million euro anti-extremism package announced by France but is it enough to deal with longer term social divisions?

Turkey

Ten year jail sentence for Turkey policemen over student protester's death

Two Turkish policemen have been jailed for ten years for their part in beating a teenage student to death during anti-government protests in 2013

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Democratic Republic Of Congo

Third day of unrest in DR Congo as rights group says over 40 people have died

For the third day running, violence has erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo as police clashed with demonstrators denouncing electoral

Italy

Italian police break up mafia drug ring in Rome

Police in Rome have broken up a mafia drug ring arresting 26 people and seizing more than 600kg of cocaine and hashish. Those arrested were members

Europe News

Tough measures on terror not always effective, expert says

Tough anti-terror measures may have the opposite effect and backfire, a top Belgian criminologist said on Friday. Vincent Seron of the Unversity of

Belgium

Belgium on high alert after two die in police anti-terror raid

Two suspected jihadists have been killed in the Belgian city of Verviers in an anti-terror raid as similar operations continued overnight in Brussels

Belgium

Belgium: Two suspected Islamists dead in shootout with police

A shootout with Belgian police has left two suspected Islamists dead. Explosions were also reported as officers carried out an anti-terror raid in

France

Two arrested after car hits French policewoman at Elysee Palace

French police have arrested two people after a motorist injured a policewoman outside President Francois Hollande’s official residence in Paris

Turkey

Turkey arrests two police officers over murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink

Two police officers have been arrested in Istanbul and charged with negligence in connection with the 2007 murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink

France

"They died so we can live freely": France pays tribute to police killed in Paris attacks

French President François Hollande gives a moving speech in a ceremony dedicated to Franck Brinsolaro, Ahmed Merabet and Clarissa Jean-Philippe, the police officers who were brutally killed in the att

France

France remembers the officers who died in the Paris attacks

"They died so the people of France may be free." France pays tribute to the three police officers who were gunned down during the Paris attacks.

France

Reassuring a shaken population: 10,000 extra soldiers deployed across France

It is a massive deployment of troops to reassure a shaken population. The French government says an extra 10,000 soldiers are being mobilised to

Ukraine

Interpol puts ousted Yanukovich on international wanted list

Interpol has put ousted former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on its international wanted list, for charges of embezzlement and financial

France

France boosts its domestic security by deploying 10,000 troops on the streets

Smarting at criticism from some quarters that their security services dropped the ball over the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and failed to prevent them

France

Brother of slain Muslim police officer: "Do not confuse Muslims with extremists"

Hundreds have gathered in the hometown of one of the police officers killed in the terrorist attacks in Paris. Officer Ahmed Merabet, a devout

France

France terror suspect Hayat Boumeddiene 'in Syria'

A woman hunted by French police as a suspect in the attacks on a satirical paper and Jewish supermarket in Paris left France several day before the killings and is believed to be in Syria.

France

Female terrorism suspect hunted by French police reportedly in Syria

French state radio says female suspect left for Syria in early January

USA

New York mayor hits back at funeral snub by NYPD officers

New York’s City Mayor has described police officers who turned their backs to him during funerals of two slain colleagues as “disrespectful.”