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Swiss woman on trial over ‘Daesh’ knife attack

A Swiss woman faces trial Monday accused of having tried to slit the throats of two women in a department store in the name of the Daesh jihadist group. The 29-year-old is accused of having committed a “terrorist act” in the attack in the plush Manor store in Lugano in southern...

Buses move 400 asylum-seekers from squalid Dutch camp

Authorities transferred some 400 asylum-seekers away from a makeshift camp outside an overcrowded migrant reception center in the northeastern Netherlands after a damning report called the site where hundreds of people were sleeping rough a health hazard. Leon Veldt, a spokesman for the...

Lebanese navy tries to recover bodies after April sinking

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — In late April, Hussein Dinnawi, his wife Samar and several dozen other Lebanese, Palestinians and Syrians set off by boat from northern Lebanon under the cover of night, entrusting their fate to smugglers on a treacherous sea voyage in search of better opportunities in...