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Belgium cancel Spain friendly

Tuesday’s friendly match between Belgium and Spain has been called off amid security fears following the deadly attacks in Paris on Friday. The game

Europe News

Belgian security officials hit back at French criticism

Belgium has hit back at French criticism of the country’s security services. An intelligence official in France told AFP on Tuesday that “the

Europe News

Belgium remains on high alert after Paris attacks

Belgium remains on high alert as the manhunt for one Paris terror suspect continued. Police searched a car this morning in the middle of Brussels’s

France

Security operations to continue across France

Security operations are to continue across France as the country comes to terms with last Friday’s attacks in Paris. Police swooped on 168 locations

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France

Paris students return to school after trauma of terror attacks

Students in Paris have returned to their studies after a weekend of trauma following Friday’s terror attacks. One school, Lycee Voltaire is in the

France

Hollande vows to place security ahead of austerity

French President Francois Hollande says he is determined to destroy ISIL, the extremist group that has admitted killing scores of people in attacks

World

Spies must change tactics to face new 'hybrid war'

President Francois Hollande says France is at war. In swift response to the deadly events in Paris the country has already launched massive

Europe News

Europe has shown "too much tolerance" towards Islamist movements

Terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo, the Jewish Museum in Brussels, Madrid commuter trains, and now the latest in Paris all have links to one Brussels

World News

Europe's Schengen zone at risk after Paris attacks

In the wake of the attacks on Paris, Britain’s prime minister David Cameron has sent a message of solidarity to the people of France. Cameron called

Turkey

High security alert for G20 summit in Turkey

The weekend’s events in Paris have overshadowed the G20 summit due to start on Sunday in the Turkish coastal resort of Antalya . Most world leaders

France

Parisians united in grief hold vigils at scene of attacks

Paris is a city in mourning, gripped by fear and shock following the brutal killing of innocent lives in Friday night’s series of attacks across the

Russia

Moscow bans EgyptAir flights in wake of Russian jet crash in Sinai

Russia has banned incoming flights by Egypt’s state-owned airline according to a Moscow airport spokesman. It’s understood the ban will come into

Greece

Greek 24-hour general strike as protesters demonstrate against austerity measures

Workers in Greece have responded to austerity measures and taken to the streets of Athens. Three separate rallies led to the centre of the city being

Business Line

Business Line: a blow to Egypt's tourism, and Hedy Lamarr's legacy

The Sinai plane crash shattered Egypt’s tourism dream. The country has been doing its best to lure back visitors after the Arab Spring revolution of

Jordan

Gunman kills five including US staff at police training centre in Jordan

A gunman has killed five people at a police training facility in Jordan before being shot dead by security forces. The country’s embassy in

World News

US commits to boosting Israeli security, condemns Palestinian violence

The US reaffirms support for boosting Israeli security at the two nations' first meeting since the contested Iran nuclear deal.

Belgium

Facebook given 48 hours to quit tracking Internet users in Belgium

Facebook has been given 48 hours by a Belgian court to stop tracking Internet users who don’t have profiles with the social media company, or face

Egypt

Egypt: tourist repatriations stepped up from Sharm el-Sheikh

Thousands more tourists, particularly from Russia and Britain, have been flown out of the Egyptian resort, as reports say investigators increasingly believe a bomb caused the recent plane crash.

Israel

Hebron incidents raise West Bank tension

At least another two people have been killed and three wounded in the latest violence in Israel. A 72-year-old woman died after being shot at a

Russia

Russia grounds all tourist flights to Egypt

Moscow has grounded all tourist flights to Egypt after after a Metrojet plane bound for Saint Patersburg crashed shortly after taking off from Sharm