France is under a “high level of threat” from terror attack but already has a large-scale security operation in place, President Francois Hollande said Tuesday, following the carnage at a Berlin Christmas market. “We have a high level of threat and we also have a particularly high level of mobilization ...
France’s lower house of Parliament Wednesday voted to extend the nation’s state of emergency until July 15, 2017. It is the fifth extension of the state of emergency, first put in place in November 2015 after attacks by the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group ...