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VIDEO: The Olympian who never gave up September 23, 2015
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VIDEO: Football legend Pele at 75 September 23, 2015
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VIDEO: Pope Francis lands to cheers in US September 22, 2015
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VIDEO: Lesbos struggles as 4,000 arrive daily September 22, 2015
The Greek island of Lesbos is still struggling to keep up with the steady flow of migrants and refugees.
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VIDEO: How much does making a drug cost? September 22, 2015
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VIDEO: Refugee crisis: Food and phone charging September 22, 2015
The BBC's Mark Lowen reports from a sports stadium on the Turkey-Greece border where agencies are providing shelter and food to refugees trying to reach Europe.
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VIDEO: On the ground at refugee hotspots September 22, 2015
EU ministers have approved a controversial plan to relocate 120,000 refugees and migrants across the EU using compulsory quotas.
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VIDEO: A guide to strange initiation ceremonies September 22, 2015
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8 FRENCH MEN CHARGED WITH FINANCING TERROR
Eight men went on trial, on Monday 01/03/2011, in Paris for their alleged roles in an armed gang accused of using explosives and the threat of violence to finance Islamic terror operations.
Prosecutors say the gang set up a restaurant and a cybercafe in Clichy-Sous-Bois suburb of Paris to try and hide their criminal activities — an “elaborate strategy to promote and finance the cause” of terror, the indictment alleges.
The trial, set to continue until 01/28/2011, takes place five years after the suspects’ arrest in an anti-terror sweep. It is common in France for investigators to work on cases for years before they go to trial.
All of the men — a French-Algerian, four Tunisians, an Algerian and two French citizens — are charged with “criminal association in relation with a terrorist enterprise,” and some are also accused of terror financing and illegal possession of weapons.
The gang is accused of using explosives to blast a hole in the wall of a warehouse of a money transport company in Beauvais, north of Paris, in 2005 — but the hole wasn’t big enough for them to get inside, and they left empty-handed. After the suspects were rounded up, police discovered weapons and explosives in a storage space in the Paris suburb.
Ouassini Cherifi and three others remain behind bars, while the rest have been freed pending trial. They risk up to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors say that while behind bars in 2000 Ouassini Cherifi met Algerian-born Safe Bourada, who was serving eight years in prison for his role as recruiter in a logistics group that helped Islamic extremists stage deadly bombings in the Paris subway and elsewhere in 1995 (see – 1995-bombings).
Investigators suspect Safe Bourada, while in prison, recruited followers who became members of a France-based terror cell known as “Ansar al-Fath,” or Partisans of Victory.
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11/2010 -FRANCE REJECTED ISLAMIC MILITANTS DEMANDS
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11/2010 -5 DETAINED IN FRANCE OVER TERROR
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10/2010 -SAUDIA WARNED FRANCE OVER TERROR