BERLIN – Facebook began a Europe-wide campaign on Monday to thwart extremist posts on social media, after German politicians in particular raised concerns about a rise in xenophobic comments linked to an influx of refugees. The “Initiative for Civil Courage Online” was announced in Berlin and the company is pledging over a million dollars to…
PARIS — Listing terrorist attacks in Israel along with other attacks by the Islamic State, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said they showed “we are in a world war.” Valls made the statement on Monday at a Paris hotel where he spoke before approximately 350 listeners, mostly from the Jewish community, during an event organized…
PARIS — Seventy percent of French citizens said it would be giving in to terrorists if Jews were forced to remove their yarmulkes for security reasons, according to a survey. The survey commissioned by the Paris Match weekly news magazine and published Friday was conducted Jan. 14-15 following one community leader’s call to Jews in…
JERUSALEM — The Arab-Israeli man who police ssy shot and killed three in Tel Aviv was buried in his northern Israel hometown. Nashat Melhem was buried late Tuesday night in Arara in the presence of about 80 mourners. His father, Mohammed, who is under house arrest for abetting his son, did not attend the funeral….
GAZA – An Israeli aircraft attacked a group of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday who the military said planned to detonate a bomb at the border with Israel, and a Palestinian militant faction said one of its men was killed. Local residents in the Hamas Islamist-run enclave said the incident occurred on a…
PARIS – France honored the victims of Islamist militant attacks last year in a thinly attended silent ceremony on Sunday, almost a year to the day when more than a million people marched in Paris to protest killings at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. President Francois Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo layed a wreath…
JERUSALEM — Israeli leaders praised the county’s security services for their work in tracking down the gunman who allegedly killed three Israelis more than a week ago in Tel Aviv. “On behalf of all citizens of Israel, I would like to thank the Israel Police, ISA, and the police special anti-terrorism unit – they did…
CAIRO — There has been another attack on tourists in Egypt, just one day after gunmen shot at Israeli tourists in Cairo.’ The new attack happened at the entrance to a hotel in the Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, where Egyptian security forces killed at least one gunman who opened fire, state television reported….
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