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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.

French police are holding a heavily armed man they suspected of planning an imminent armed attack on one or two churches in France, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on April 23.

 Leaders to meet on sidelines of Brussels summit on Thursday as talks drag, cash ebbs

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday in Brussels in a bid to secure a statement of political support from Berlin amid tough negotiations with creditors and dwindling finances.

Edith Piaf may have passed away in 1963 but this year, the year she would have turned 100, the memory of ?the Little Sparrow? is just as strong as ever and enshrined as one of France?s most enduring icons.

By Jeff Black, Nikos Chrysoloras & Stefan Riecher

The European Central Bank is studying measures to rein in Emergency Liquidity Assistance to Greek banks, as resistance to further aiding the country?s stricken lenders grows in the Governing Council, people with knowledge of the discussions said.

A meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis concluded on Monday night. Government sources state that Tsipras was briefed on the progress of negotiations with Greece's international creditors from the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Commission ahead of Tuesday's meeting with the Brussels Group.

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With pressure growing on state coffers as cash reserves run low without any immediate prospect for the release of rescue loans, the government on Monday signed a legal degree obliging state bodies, with the exception of pension funds, to transfer their reserves to the Bank of Greece for the state?s use.

Europe "collectively guilty" for drowning of migrants

PARIS -- Europe is collectively guilty of letting hundreds of migrants die in the Mediterranean, says a former French minister and founder of Doctors Without Borders.

NOVI SAD - The jury of the 6th European Facebook Poetry Festival has unanimously declared "Stick charts" by Paris-based writer and translator Boris Lazic as the most beautiful poem featured in the competition.

Lazic competed with 496 poets from 22 countries.