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Can France prevent another attack?

The French authorities are now faced with an enormous security challenge: how do they prevent another Nice style atrocity?

Turkey

Turkey coup: around 200 dead and nearly 3000 arrested

Hundreds of people are now thought to have been killed, many of them civilians, and over one thousand wounded following an attempted military coup in Turkey.

Turkey

Turkey 'coup attempt' underway - prime minister

At least 60 people have died following last night’s attempted military coup d’etat and some 336 were arrested for their role in the plot to overthrow the…

France

France to extend state of Emergency - what does that mean?

French President Francois Hollande has said the country’s state of emergency will continue for another three months in the wake of the lorry attack in Nice which left more than 80 people dead and doze

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France

France will not be destabilised says PM

After a meeting of the Defence Council, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said France would not allow itself to be destabilised by the truck attack in Nice.

France

Witnesses to Nice attack shed light on events

Eyewitness accounts have begun to emerge after Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Nice.

USA

Dallas police heighten security across city after new threat, two days after officers killed

Poland

NATO commits to fund Afghan forces to 2020

NATO countries meeting at a key summit in Warsaw have agreed to maintain a stable military presence in Afghanistan.

South Sudan

Gunbattles erupt in South Sudan's capital

Gunbattles erupted in South Sudan on its fifth independence anniversary and as peace talks were underway in the capital Juba.

Russia

New Russian anti-terrorist law sparks sharp criticism

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law an anti-terrorist bill that has been fiercely criticised both at home and abroad for offering huge powers to the security services and…

France

French intelligence services should be overhauled in light of Paris attacks says report into atrocities

The French intelligence services should be overhauled.

Austria

25km-long traffic queue between Hungary and Austria

The hold-up is due to ad-hoc checks by the Austrian authorities, who have strengthened measures to curb the flow of migrants into the country.

Iraq

Grief and anger on the streets of Baghdad

At least 200 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in the worst bombing so far this year in Iraq.

France

Armed police to patrol French beaches

Some French beaches will be monitored by armed patrols, according to reports quoting a police source, as the country tightens security for the summer holiday…

France

A huge French protest is banned - for just four hours

Left-wing supporters had condemned what they said was the first ban of a union-backed protest since the early 1960s.

France

March climbdown adds humiliation to French Socialists' union worries

Paris will be the People's on Thursday as unions lead a march against new labour laws, but now the embattled Socialist government has alienated its union supporters by trying to ban the march, and ang

France

French authorities reverse ban on protest march

French unions have been allowed to hold a protest march in Paris on Thursday, the head of the CGT union Philippe Martinez said on Wednesday after an emergency meeting with the…

Belgium

Brussels Central Station evacuated amid heightened security fears

Brussels central train station was temporarily evacuated on Sunday (June 19) due to a suspicious suitcase amid heightened security fears in the Belgian capital after a huge anti-terror operation led t

Belgium

Belgian railway station back to normal after false alert

At a time of security fears, many alerts turn out to be completely false.

Belgium

Cyberspace is officially a war zone - NATO

Cyber attacks against a member nation could trigger an Article 5 collective response by all 28 states involved.