World / Crime & Legal Oct 29, 2020
Three dead in knife attack in French church; terrorism suspected
The incident marks the third attack in two months in the country, and took place close to where a lorry was plowed into a Bastille Day crowd in 2016.
World Dec 2, 2019
French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on Sunday defended itself following outrage over cartoons about a deadly military helicopter crash in Mali, the day before a memorial service for the 13 dead soldiers. The magazine, which was itself the target of a devastating attack by Islamic ...
World / Crime & Legal Apr 14, 2016
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 ...
World Nov 18, 2015
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 ...
World / Science & Health Nov 18, 2015
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. ...
National / Media | BIG IN JAPAN Jul 11, 2015
Dark humor won't shield us for much longer
by Michael Hoffman
'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 ...
World Jun 26, 2015
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. ...
World May 6, 2015
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 ...
World / Crime & Legal Apr 9, 2015
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 ...
National Mar 19, 2015
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 ...
World Feb 12, 2015
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 ...
World Feb 11, 2015
'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, ...