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PARIS, France — French lawmakers will vote Tuesday on a tough new counter-terrorism law designed to end the country’s two-year state of emergency, though critics say it will expand police powers at a cost to civil liberties.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The Danish military deployed troops in Copenhagen on Friday to guard the city’s synagogue and the Israeli embassy, hours ahead of the Yom Kippur Jewish holiday.

Heightened security will be in effect throughout the country during Yom Kippur Friday and Saturday, with an emphasis on Jerusalem and the Old City, as tens of thousands of Jews from across the globe converge at the Western Wall.

In his Thursday morning appearance on Breitbart News Daily, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton discussed the Gulf State diplomatic impasse with Qatar and China’s apparent willingness to get tougher with North Korea.

A Brussels police officer has been arrested after authorities caught him handing over information to a terror cell who were under criminal investigation.

TEL AVIV — Hamas has suffered another embarrassment after three of its members purportedly successfully infiltrated the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday and joined Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State.

TEL AVIV — Palestinian terrorist organizations have been praising Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for his speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, calling it a recognition by the Palestinian president of the failure of the approach of political negotiations.

Pope Francis met with the secretary general of the Muslim World League (MWL) in the Vatican Wednesday, a group that has been tied to Saudi financing of jihadist terrorism and the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning that the U.S. would “stop radical Islamic terrorism,” employing a phrase that his advisers have tried to discourage him from using in the past.

A Hamas militant died in an incident in a tunnel in Gaza, the Islamist movement which controls the territory said on Tuesday, the third such death in five days.

NEW YORK — In the wake of the London subways terrorist attack last week, the U.S. should immediately install metal detectors at subways, train stations and other public transportation hubs, Breitbart Senior Reporter and Jerusalem Bureau Chief Aaron Klein suggested on Sunday night.

Israeli security forces in a nighttime raid early Thursday seized $13,500 cash donated by the Palestinian terror organization Hamas to rebuild the demolished home of a teenage Palestinian terrorist who murdered an Israeli woman.

President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement on Sunday welcomed a pledge by its Hamas rivals to accept key conditions for ending a decade-old Palestinian political and territorial split, but said it wants to see vows implemented before making the next move.

Asylum seekers in Saxony are increasingly confessing membership terrorist groups, possibly in hopes this will prevent them from being deported to home countries where they could face execution.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said that Israel stands with the people of Britain in the “common fight” against terror after a homemade bomb exploded on a London subway train, wounding 22.

Israel’s Navy held a massive drill this week that included a simulated surprise attack by Hezbollah naval commandos on the Jewish state. The drill was part of an 11-day military exercise — the IDF’s largest in decades — to bolster preparedness.

A man who travelled from Canada to Syria to join the Islamic State terror group and work for its “morality police” has returned to North America, saying “We all do things we regret”.

Actor Kumail Nanjiani said in a podcast interview this week that the racial unrest in America is “scarier” now than it was after the deadly Islamic terror attacks of September 11th, 2001.

TEL AVIV — Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State, has threatened Hamas and Egyptian intelligence forces in an announcement issued Monday as Hamas officials met in Cairo with Egyptian leaders.

In a message released on the eve of the anniversary of the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks in the United States, Pope Francis has reaffirmed his conviction that all religions want peace and cannot do otherwise.

TEL AVIV — Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ so-called military wing, has joined the group’s delegation led by politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh in a visit to Egypt, a senior Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Vice President Mike Pence spoke with particular emotion in his voice at times as he recounted the events of September 11, 2001 from the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on Monday. Pence honored the families of the fallen passenger “heroes” who took action to overtake the terrorist hijackers of their plane that day.

Today we commemorate a tragic anniversary. On this day 16 years ago, radical jihadists, who had found safe harbor under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, viciously attacked our nation in the calm hours of the morning.

A new lawsuit filed against Saudi Arabia alleges that the country’s embassy in Washington funded a “dry run” operation in preparation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a report from The New York Post has detailed.

NEW YORK — On the sixteenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks, President Donald Trump did not once mention the terms “radical Islam” or “Islamic terrorism” during a commemoration ceremony at the Pentagon.

Leaders in Qatar and Saudi Arabia spoke by telephone early Saturday in their first high-level contact since an Arab diplomatic crisis engulfed Doha three months ago, but now even terms of what they discussed have created a new dispute.

The Algemeiner reports: JNS.org – Israeli President Reuven Rivlin warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday that Iran and Hezbollah were attempting to create a permanent foothold in Syria that would “force Israel to react.”

TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces successfully foiled three attempts by jihadists to cross into Sinai from the Gaza Strip last week, a security source from the organization told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Australia will send specialist military advisers to the Philippines to help local forces in their fight against Islamic State terrorists. Defence Minister Marise Payne made the announcement Friday after meeting with Philippines Defence Minister Delfin Lorenzana in Manila.

The Austrian government has halted the construction of an “anti-terror” wall around the chancellor’s building after a backlash from the public when it was discovered the project had cost 1.5 million euros.

Russia claimed on Friday to have killed several top commanders of the Islamic State group in an airstrike in Syria, including the so-called Emir of Deir Ezzor and the “Minister of War”.

The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross says Hamas would not allow him access to two Israeli civilians believed to be held by the Islamic militant group in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the Red Cross to assist in retrieving Israeli civilians and bodies of fallen soldiers held in Gaza by the Islamic militant group Hamas.

TEL AVIV – Speaking in Germany at an inauguration event for a long-awaited memorial to the 1972 Munich massacre, President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday slammed the Palestinian Authority for continuing to glorify the Black September Palestinian terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli athletes during the Olympics that year.

The presidents of Israel and Germany joined together to inaugurate a memorial to the 11 Israeli athletes and a German police officer murdered during an attack by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Lebanon did not remain silent following the start of a massive IDF drill simulating a war, with a Hezbollah official threatening that “the Israelis won’t succeed in surprising us.”