Manuel Valls

Bulgaria will heighten its security measures after the series of attacks in Paris on Friday night, which claimed the lives of at least 127 people and left at least 180 others injured.

This became clear after an extraordinary high-level meeting on security and migration at the interior ministry, which had been summoned by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov on Saturday.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov expressed readiness to aid France in the aftermath of the series of attacks, which left at least 120 people dead and more than 200 injured in Paris on Friday night.

World-renowned Turkish pianist Faz?l Say was awarded the "2015 International Secularism Prize" (Prix de la Laïcité) by the France Committee of Secularism on Oct. 26.

The event was hosted at the Paris Municipality Building with the attendance of French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, along with other guests.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said June 2 that 110 jihadists who left French territory to fight with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had died in Iraq and Syria.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls revealed April 23 that five terror attacks had been "foiled" in France in recent months.

A 24 year-old Franco-Algerian, accused of planning a terrorist attack against “one or two churches” was arrested in Paris on Sunday, according to the French Interior Minister, who underlined that terrorism is still a threat.

The conservative party of former President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to dominate the final round of France?s local elections, give the far-right National Front another electoral breakthrough and deal a new blow to the governing Socialists.
                   

Three French sport stars were among the ten victims of a mid-air helicopter collision in Argentina on Monday.

The victims were participating in the shooting of a reality TV show when two helicopters collided in the air, France 24 reports.

All ten people on board of the two helicopters - eight French passengers and their two Argentinian pilots, died in the accident.

The European Parliament announced March 9 that it had alerted anti-fraud investigators to possible financial irregularities committed by France's far-right National Front (FN) party over salaries paid to EU parliamentary assistants.
      

As many as 10,000 Europeans could be waging jihad in Iraq and Syria by the end of this year, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned March 8, a three-fold increase on current numbers.