South Korea and US will start summer military drills next week to counter North Korean threats

PARIS: The sheer ambition of the Paris Olympics made it difficult to monitor and police, but French security forces kept thousands of athletes and millions of fans safe in what Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin called a “gold medal” achievement.The two-week sporting event, which ended on Sunday, was preceded by a security operation unprecedented in recent … Read more

How a young generation in Bangladesh forced out the leader who ruled for much of their lives

PARIS: The sheer ambition of the Paris Olympics made it difficult to monitor and police, but French security forces kept thousands of athletes and millions of fans safe in what Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin called a “gold medal” achievement.The two-week sporting event, which ended on Sunday, was preceded by a security operation unprecedented in recent … Read more

Daesh attack in east DR Congo kills five

LONDON: Britain's approach to tackling extremism is being criticised as being “two-faced”, with far-right terrorism not being taken as seriously as Islamist terrorism, according to a leading think tank. The Royal United Services Institute has raised concerns that right-wing violence is often dismissed as “just violence” by politicians, prosecutors and security agencies, The Observer reported … Read more