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Paris police evacuate 2,000 migrants

French police moved out around 2,000 migrants from a makeshift camp in an area north of Paris on Friday, the 35th evacuation operation in two years in the capital. A similar roundup of the mostly Afghan and African migrants around the Porte de la Chapelle area in July saw 2,800 moved from...

Van mows down crowd in Barcelona, 13 killed

A van plowed into crowds in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Thursday and a regional official said 13 people were killed, in what police said they were treating as a terrorist attack. Police said they had arrested a man linked to the attack in the heart of the city, but did not identify him...

France provides toilets, taps for Calais migrants

French authorities Wednesday set up portable toilets and water taps on a road near the northern port of Calais after losing a challenge to a court order to provide sanitation for migrants. Ten portable toilets and a bank of five taps were installed outside a centre run by the charity Secours...

Turkey asks Germany to extradite coup suspect

Turkey has asked Germany to extradite a theology lecturer suspected of playing a major role in last year's failed coup, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. Turkey sent a diplomatic note requesting the extradition of Adil Oksuz, who the government says was the "imam" of air...

German nationalists pull anti-Islam pig poster

A top leader of Germany's anti-immigrant AfD party says it won't distribute campaign posters with the slogan "Islam? Doesn't fit with our cuisine" written above a piglet in a grass field - because it inspires too much sympathy for the pig. Alexander Gauland, one of nationalist Alternative...

Barcelona residents protest increase in tourism

Around a hundred Barcelona residents gathered on the Spanish city's beach on Saturday to protest the unchecked growth of mass tourism to the popular vacation destination. The protest was organized by a local residents' group under the theme "Recover the beach for everyone!" They say the...

German lawmakers to visit Turkish air base

A delegation of German lawmakers, accompanied by a senior NATO official, will visit German soldiers serving at an air base in Turkey on Sept. 8, as part of a NATO trip, Turkey's foreign ministry said on Thursday. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu said details of the planned visit...