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In this Oct. 22, 2004, file photo, a Pakistani woman prays after the first Friday prayers of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Lahore, Pakistan. An Australian Muslim woman who sought permission to keep her face and head covered while she gives evidence at an upcoming trial was told by a judge Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, she would have to remove her veil. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

SUGHED Paris opera tosses Muslim woman for wearing veil in defiance of ban

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Oleg Tinkov’s 1 million euro challenge no ‘joke’

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2004 file photo, Google co-founders Larry Page, left, and Sergey Brin pose for photos at their company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google’s IPO 10 years ago launched the company on a trajectory that continues to reshape its business and much of the world in its orbit. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

MORICI: Google’s row with France—and what it means for taxes

By Peter Morici

In this undated photo provided by publisher Gallimard, French novelist Patrick Modiano poses for a photograph. Patrick Modiano of France has won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature. (AP Photo/Gallimard)

Patrick Modiano wins literature Nobel for works about Nazi occupation

By Karl Ritter and Malin Rising - Associated Press

EU Commissioner for competition Joaquin Almunia addresses the media at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, on Wednesday Oct. 8, 2014. The European Union's competition watchdog has accepted Britain's bid to heavily subsidize the construction and operation of a new 16-billion pound (dollars 26 billion) nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

UK cleared to heavily subsidize $39B nuclear plant

By Juergen Baetz - Associated Press

U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power: Islamic State threat should be uniter

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

In this still image from video published on the Internet on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, by a group calling itself Jund al-Khilafah, or Soldiers of the Caliphate, a captive Frenchman appeals to French President Francois Hollande to help free him. The Frenchman, whom the ministry described as a 55-year-old mountain guide, said he was taken hostage by the group on Sunday and reiterated its demands that the French military end its airstrikes in Iraq. The group said it was answering a call by Islamic State group spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani to attack Americans and Europeans. (AP Photo)

Algerian extremists behead French hostage

By Paul Schemm and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Police guard the entrance of the Palais de Justice as sole suspect of the Brussels Jewish museum shooting Mehdi Nemmouche appears before a judicial hearing, in Brussels, Sept. 12, 2014. Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old French national who is believed to have links with radical Islamists and have fought in Syria, was arrested in France in connection with the shooting, and extradited to Belgium in July. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

France outraged as police free 3 suspected jihadis by mistake

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

ADDS RESTRICTION - This Sept. 19, 2014 photo shows an empty room during the press day at the Picasso museum in Paris. Paris’ Picasso museum is finally allowing the public a glimpse into its shuttered rooms after 5 years of closure over a restoration fraught with setbacks, dismissals and back-stabbings worthy of a Dan Brown thriller. Thought it should be good news for art-lovers since the museum boasts the world’s largest Picasso collection one problem remains. It’s empty. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

‘Nearly empty’ Picasso museum open in Paris

By THOMAS ADAMSON - Associated Press

France strikes Islamic State’s depot in Iraq

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the media during a joint press conference with the President of the Philippines, Benigno S. Aquino III., as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

AP EXCLUSIVE: CIA halts spying in Europe

By KEN DILANIAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 4, 2014 file photo, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, right, and Belgium's Interior Minister Joelle Milquet speak with the press after laying a wreath at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Recruiters for Islamic extremist groups are increasingly targeting French women and girls, with nearly 100 either in Syria or on their way and 175 being monitored at home, security officials say. France’s Interior Ministry on Tuesday Sept.16, 2014 posted a video showing anguished family members of young people who left to fight alongside extremists, including a young man whose 15-year-old sister set out for what she thought was a humanitarian aid mission. She has not returned. (AP Photo/Thierry Monasse, File)

Rise in extremists recruiting French women, girls

By LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

Margaux Hengel, right, and Stephanie Leon of France react after their flight is canceled at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, in Roissy, near Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. Air France canceled at least half its flights around the world on Monday as pilots began a weeklong strike, highlighting the trouble Europe's flagship airlines face in keeping up with low-cost competitors. Both 24-year-old medical workers, already made a sacrifice before dawn on Wednesday. They hurriedly bought tickets on a 4-hour train to catch their flight to the Caribbean after their first-leg flight from Brest, in western France, to Paris was canceled. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Laments, long lines amid Air France pilots’ strike

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

French President Francois Hollande, left, watches U.S Secretary of State John Kerry, right, shaking hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, back to the camera, before a family photo at the international conference intended to come up with an international strategy against Islamic State extremists, in Paris, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. As diplomats from around the world sought a global strategy to fight Islamic State extremists, Iran ruled out working with any international coalition, saying it had rejected American requests for cooperation against the militants. Partially hidden at center is French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski; Pool)

Iraq calls for end to extremist ‘sanctuaries’

By Lori Hinnant and Lara Jakes - Associated Press

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hand with Turkey's foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu upon his arrival at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Kerry is in the region to speak with leaders about strategies to address the threat from the Islamic State, a militant extremist group. John Kerry said that the US would provide an additional $500 million in humanitarian aid to victims of the war in Syria, bringing total American assistance to $2.9 billion since the start of the conflict in 2011. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Kerry says no to Iran’s help against Islamic group

By Lara Jakes - Associated Press

United States's Rudy Gay goes up for a basket against Lithuania's Jonas Valanciunas , left, and Renaldas Seibutis during their Basketball World Cup semifinal match at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. The 2014 Basketball World Cup competition will take place in various cities in Spain from Aug. 30 through Sept. 14. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

U.S. cruises past Lithuania, into Basketball World Cup final

By Brian Mahoney - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media after his talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Minsk, Belarus. Putin is flying to Mongolia on Wednesday Sept. 3, for a working visit amid soaring tensions with Washington and NATO over a Kremlin-backed offensive in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

France suspends warship delivery to Russia over Ukraine concerns

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