Spain nabs Frenchman wanted for allegedly supplying arms to Paris terrorist
Spanish police have arrested a Frenchman suspected of supplying the arms used by an Islamist militant to kill four people at a kosher supermarket and a policewoman in Paris in January 2015, Spain's interior ministry said on Wednesday. Antoine Denive, a 27-year-old from Sainte Catherine ...
France's Charlie Hebdo journal, the target of lethal attacks by Islamist militants last January, defended party-goers over gun-toters in a new edition following last Friday's terrorist attacks in the French capital. The satirical weekly, which hit world headlines when gunmen killed 12 people during an ...
Paris ER ranks had just run routine terror emergency drill, were ready at time of attack
The world watched in horror as the death toll from the Paris terror attacks steadily climbed. By the time the three-hour rampage ended on Saturday and authorities put the number of those killed at 129, onlookers could only brace for worse news to come. ...
Dark humor won't shield us for much longer
'I hope," read an email from a colleague boarding an Osaka-bound shinkansen in Tokyo last week, "nobody sets himself on fire." Black humor. There's nothing funny about a man immolating himself on a crowded train, killing himself and another and injuring 26 — but ...
One decapitated in suspected terrorist attack on U.S. factory in France
A decapitated body covered in Arabic writing was found at a U.S. gas company in southeast France on Friday, police sources and French media said, after an assailant rammed a car into the premises, triggering an explosion. The attacker survived the blast and was arrested. ...
The French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, targeted in a deadly attack earlier this year by Islamist gunmen, was being honored on Tuesday at a New York gala under heavy security, organizers said. The award from the PEN American Center comes two days after two gunmen ...
A Turkish prosecutor is seeking prison terms for two journalists who republished the cover of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo featuring an image of the Prophet Mohammed, their newspaper said on Wednesday. Ceyda Karan and Hikmet Cetinkaya, columnists at Cumhuriyet daily, both face jail ...
French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo publishes cartoon on Fukushima nuclear disaster
French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo took aim at Tepco's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station in its March 18 issue. A cartoon on the theme of "spring" depicts two people in protective gear talking about this year's first swallow, while looking at footprints of ...
A magazine run by the Islamic State militant organization has published an interview with the French widow of a Paris hostage taker, its first official claim that Hayat Boumeddiene is in their territory, which spans parts of Syria and Iraq. France launched a search for ...
'CyberCaliphate' hacks Newsweek Twitter account, threatens Obama
Hackers calling themselves "CyberCaliphate" threatened U.S. President Barack Obama and his family when they took control of Newsweek magazine's Twitter account on Tuesday with the words "Je suIS IS," a reference to Islamic State and the deadly attack at French newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The group, ...
Tokyo-based publisher Daisan Shokan released a book Tuesday containing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad previously published in the French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo. About 500 bookstores nationwide have expressed interest in selling the book, titled "Islam Heito Ka, Fushi Ka" ("Anti-Islam Hate, or Satire?"), ...
Japan's political satire offers comic wordplay — but rarely any offense
The tragic murders at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo touched off worldwide debate about what forms of satire in the public sphere are appropriate, and under what conditions. Charlie Hebdo's lampooning of any targeted topic granted no quarter, so when it ran cartoon caricatures ...
