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Topic: Manuel Valls

June 7, 2013
9:18 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, second left, speaks with French President Francois Hollande during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels. (photo credit: AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU tries to keep a close eye on fighters in Syria

Nations pledge to cooperate to prevent the 600 European citizens fighting against Assad from turning to terrorism at home

By Raf Casert

April 1, 2013
7:13 pm

A vendor sets up his stall on the first day of the 30th Annual Meeting of France's Muslims, at Le Bourget, Europe's largest and most popular Muslim convention, Friday, on the fringes of the Parisian suburb of Le Bourget. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

Muslims concerned about broader France headscarf ban

French Muslims say their home country has made progress in accepting them, but worry ban could be extended to private sector

By Jamey Keaten

February 25, 2013
12:04 pm

Egyptian protesters chant anti-Morsi slogans and carry posters with pictures of victims of recent violence and their names in Port Said, Egypt, February 22, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Nasser Nasser)

Morsi plays it cool while Egypt crumbles

MK Barakeh has harsh words for Netanyahu; Tunisian Islamist stresses that the bars are open for business

By Michael Bassin

February 15, 2013
7:14 am

Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, right, President Moncef Marzouki, center, and head of constitutional assembly Mustapha Ben Jaafar, left, salute the national flag during a ceremony marking the second anniversary of the Revolution, Monday, January 14, 2013, in Tunis (photo credit: AP)

Tunisia’s premier to form new government or resign

Bucking his own party, Hamadi Jebali will hold talks with other political leaders on building cabinet of technocrats

February 6, 2013
8:05 am

French Imams lay a wreath at the Holocaust memorial site in Yad Vashem, Tuesday (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Imams visit Holocaust site to show tolerant Islam

Muslim leaders from all over France gather at Drancy memorial, site of former detention camp

January 30, 2013
2:32 pm

Toulouse killer Mohamed Merah. (photo credit: Patrick Crasnier/CIT'images/Flash90)

France arrests two accomplices in Toulouse killings

French say killer had international help in carrying out 2012 shooting spree, which left seven dead, including three children and a rabbi outside school

By Gabe Fisher

January 15, 2013
6:00 pm

A French army soldier patrols Gare du Nord station in Paris, Monday Jan. 14, 2013. (photo credit: Remy de la Mauviniere/AP)

As Mali op intensifies, France ups anti-terror security

New program to protect airports, tunnels from terrorists angry over French intervention in North Africa

October 16, 2012
9:35 am

An anti-Assad protest in London in 2011. (photo credit: CC BY-SA hood.jonathan, Flickr)

France, UK detain citizens en route to join Syrian rebels

European governments fear radicalized local Muslims, trained in foreign conflicts, could return to stage attacks at home

By Lori Hinnant

October 11, 2012
10:49 am

Riot police officers guard a parking lot in Torcy, east of Paris Wednesday, Oct.10, 2012 where police found bomb-making material after police broke up a suspected terrorist cell last week (photo credit: AP/Thibault Camus)

France frees 5 of 12 accused of attack on kosher market

Official says some members of the ‘extremely dangerous terrorist cell,’ all of whom were born in France, had plans to fight in the Syrian civil war

October 9, 2012
6:34 am

A man leaves the synagogue in Argenteuil, west of Paris, where services were canceled Saturday after attackers shot eight blank bullets at the building. (Remy de la Mauviniere/AP)

French Jews unsurprised but fearful over rising anti-Semitic violence

Despite government response, threats have only increased since deadly March shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse

By Lori Hinnant

September 23, 2012
11:24 pm

French Minister of Interior Manuel Valls (photo credit: CC BY 3.0, by ComputerHotline, Wikimedia Commons)

Jews ‘can wear their kippa with pride,’ says France’s interior minister

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has proposed skullcap ban as a ‘little sacrifice’ by the Jews ‘in the name of equality’ with restrictions on Muslim dress

By Yifa Yaakov and JTA

June 6, 2012
2:51 am

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls (photo credit: AP/Bob Edme)

France vows better security for Jews after attacks

Since Toulouse school shooting in March, 43 violent incidents and 105 threats or acts of intimidation targeting Jews have been reported