Anthony Faiola

The mug shot provided Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016 by the police in Duesseldorf, western Germany, shows a man that applied for asylum in Germany with name Walid Salihi. The man was fatally shot by French police on Thursday as he ran up to a Paris police station wielding a butcher's knife and wearing a fake explosives vest. He had first entered Germany in 2013 after living for five years illegally in France, and had gone by at least seven names, identifying himself as a Tunisian, Moroccan and Georgian. He lived in several German cities and moved to Recklinghausen at the beginning of last August.

Suspect who tried to attack Paris police station lived with asylum seekers in Germany

May 18, 2019 at 2:17 a.m.

The Islamist extremist who staged a failed attack on a Paris police station last week had been living in a home for asylum seekers in western Germany, police said, deepening...

A Belgian army vehicle is parked on the almost deserted square in front of the main train station in the center of Brussels on Nov. 22, 2015.

Brussels put on high alert as officials warn of ‘imminent’ threat of attack

June 21, 2019 at 3:21 p.m.

The government abruptly shut down the city's subway system, canceled sporting events and warned residents to avoid crowded places as Belgium placed the capital on maximum alert early on Saturday,...

Items are left in memory of the dead in Paris outside the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 17, 2015.

French officials think as many as 20 plotters may be behind Paris attacks

June 21, 2019 at 10:30 a.m.

European authorities staged an international manhunt on Sunday for a 26-year-old "dangerous individual," one of three brothers involved in the deadly attacks on Paris, even as an image took shape...

Wearing a yellow raincoat, Pope Francis waves to the faithful as he arrives in Tacloban, Philippines, on Jan. 17, 2015.

How climate-change doubters lost a papal fight

June 22, 2019 at 6:25 a.m.

Pope Francis was about to take a major step backing the science behind human-driven global warming, and Philippe de Larminat was determined to change his mind. A French doubter who...

A policeman walks from a house on March 26, 2015, in Montabaur, Germany, where the co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings plane reportedly lived.

Among clues about Germanwings co-pilot, reports of ‘pressure’ and vision problems

June 21, 2019 at 3:09 a.m.

One year before he made the cut for Lufthansa's elite flying school, Andreas Lubitz worked at a Burger King behind a car wash, flipping Whoppers and frying fries and talking...

Jean Cabaret, seen Nov. 27 2014 at his farm in Krapenn Bonen, France, raises his chickens using organic methods.

Europe shudders at U.S. ‘Frankenfoods’

August 21, 2019 at 10:20 p.m.

On a velvety green patch of the French countryside, organic farmer Jean Cabaret gave a little shudder. A looming trade deal with the United States, he fears, may make his...

North’s neighbors turn sour

August 21, 2021 at 11:16 a.m.

North Korea may have gained bragging rights on Monday as the world's newest nuclear power, but the pivotal question now is whether the secretive communist government can survive the political...

N. Korea plans to test nuke

August 21, 2021 at 11:16 a.m.

North Korea declared Tuesday that it would conduct a nuclear test to bolster its defenses against the United States, raising tensions with its neighbors and threatening to dramatically change the...

S. Korean panel debunks cloned embryo claims

August 21, 2021 at 1:04 p.m.

An academic panel investigating embattled scientist Hwang Woo Suk concluded Tuesday that the claims he and his research team made in 2004 about creating the world's first stem cells from...

U.S. woos N. Korea for talks

August 22, 2021 at 5:55 p.m.

Spurred by fears of a possible North Korean nuclear test, the United States and its Asian allies have stepped up a diplomatic offensive to bring Pyongyang back to disarmament talks,...

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