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Belgian police arrest ninth suspect in Paris terror attacks investigation

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Officials said the suspect, identified as 'Abdoullah C.', regularly phoned cousin of Paris attacks ringleader in the days following the massacres.

French anti-terrorist police arrest woman with fake pregnant belly

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The Muslim convert and her partner arrested in Montpellier are suspected of planning to use prosthetic device for a suicide attack.

French PM presses on with plan to enshrine emergency powers in constitution

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The move would bar legal challenges to search and detention powers and the stripping of French citizenship from dual nationals convicted of terrorism.

Frenchman who admitted beheading boss found dead in prison cell

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Yassin Salhi, 35, regarded by authorities as a militant Islamist, in June attacked his boss and the Air Products plant near Lyon where he worked.

French police arrest two men over 'foiled terror plot' in Orléans

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Interior minister said the French pair were in contact with another Frenchman thought to be in Syria and behind the plot targeting police and army.

France and Russia to bolster information swap on Islamic State

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French defence minister says both countries agreed to 'strengthen exchange of military information' concerning Syria air strikes.

French brothel keeper Madame Claude dies aged 92

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During her peak in the 1960s she presided over a network of some 500 high-class prostitutes whose clients allegedly included John F. Kennedy.

France steps up security for churches

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Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve has announced tightened security over the Christmas period for many of France's 50,000 churches.

Five arrested in Belgium over November terrorist attacks in Paris

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Official said Salah Abdeslam, wanted for his part in the massacres, was not among the five arrested in and around Brussels on Sunday and Monday.

Retired police officer held over Air France Mauritius-Paris bomb hoax

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The 58-year-old from Réunion was detained by police on arrival in Paris over planting of fake bomb that forced jet into emergency landing in Kenya.