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1 dead, 11 arrested in anti-terror sweep in France

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 6th

By LORI HINNANTAssociated Press PARIS (AP) - Police carried out raids across France on Saturday after DNA on a grenade that exploded last month at a kosher grocery store led them to a suspected jihadist cell of young Frenchmen recently converted to Islam. The man whose DNA was identified, named

Abu Hamza extradited to US after UK ruling

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 6th

By JILL LAWLESSAssociated Press LONDON (AP) - Radical preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other terror suspects were extradited from the U.K. after Britain's High Court ruled they had no more grounds for appeal in their yearslong battles to avoid facing charges in the United States.

Abu Hamza extradited to US after UK ruling

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 5th

By JILL LAWLESSAssociated Press LONDON (AP) - Radical preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other terror suspects who fought for years to avoid facing charges in the United States lost their grounds for appeal and were flown to the U.S. from Britain late Friday, officials said. The U.S. Embassy

Bomb explodes near north Nigeria Islamic school

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 30th

By JON GAMBRELLAssociated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Gunmen detonated a bomb Sunday near an Islamic boarding school in northern Nigeria and later exchanged gunfire with security forces, causing unknown casualties in the region's latest round of violence, officials said. Sunday's attack

Pakistan: In twist, Muslims accused of blasphemy

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 30th

By ADIL JAWADAssociated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's blasphemy laws may be used to punish Muslims suspected of ransacking a Hindu temple, an intriguing twist for a country where harsh laws governing religious insults are primarily used against supposed offenses to Islam, not

US banks hit by more than a week of cyberattacks

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 28th

By RAPHAEL SATTERAssociated Press U.S. banks have been buffeted by more than a week of powerful cyberattacks, but the mystery surrounding their perpetrators lingers. One expert said Friday that he was suspicious of claims of responsibility purportedly made by Islamists angry at an anti-Muslim

Kenya attacks last stronghold of Somali militants

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 28th

By ABDI GULED and TOM ODULAAssociated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Kenyan troops invaded al-Shabab's last stronghold in Somalia on Friday, coming ashore in a predawn beach landing at Kismayo that appeared likely to deprive the Islamist insurgents of their last big money-making enterprise

Egypt's Morsi assumes major role in Mideast

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 26th

By STEVEN R. HURSTAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi assigned himself the heavyweight's role in the Middle East on Wednesday, declaring in his first speech to the United Nations that the civil war raging in Syria is the "tragedy of the age" and

US urges tighter border security in Mali, region

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 26th

By BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.S. says western and northern African nations need to tighten security on their borders to combat the increased movement of extremists, weapons and drugs. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Sahel region is a "powder

Morsi demands Palestinian rights

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 26th

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi is making his debut on the global stage at the United Nations, celebrating himself as the nation's first democratically elected leader who was swept into office after what he called a "great, peaceful revolution." Morsi, an Islamist