Elaine Ganley

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Soldiers patrol at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. Frenchman Herve Gourdel, 55, was abducted in Algeria on Monday by a splinter group from al-Qaida's North African branch. The Jund al-Khilafah, or Soldiers of the Caliphate, said it would kill him unless France halts it airstrikes in Iraq within 24 hours. French forces on Friday joined the U.S. in carrying out airstrikes against extremists who have overrun large areas of Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

New jihad appeal makes policing even harder

Elaine Ganley · September 23, 2014 8:01 pm

French case against Iran opposition group dropped

French case against Iran opposition group dropped

Elaine Ganley · September 17, 2014 3:30 pm

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls delivers his speech at the National Assembly in Paris, France, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. France's prime minister faces a confidence vote in a parliament increasingly frustrated with unpopular President Francois Hollande's handling of the economy, including dissidents within his Socialist Party. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

French prime minister wins confidence vote

Elaine Ganley · September 16, 2014 7:29 pm

In this photo taken Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014, migrants sit by a tent at a makeshift camp in Calais, northern France. Migrants huddle in shanty-towns in Calais, gazing out at a tantalizingly narrow stretch of water toward Britain - the land they see as their Eldorado. They are pouring into the French port city at an ever-faster pace, overwhelming police with aggressive new tactics in their bid to cross the English Channel. (AP Photo/Elaine Ganley)

Migrants’ new tactics sound alarm bells in France

Elaine Ganley · September 8, 2014 12:41 pm

A man hold a banner which reads "Migrants equal insecurity, unhealthiness and economic disaster" in Calais, northern France, Sunday, Sept 7, 2014. Hundreds of extreme-right activists demonstrated Sunday to "save" Calais from homeless migrants inundating the French port city in hopes of crossing the English Channel to Britain. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

Tensions mount in French port over migrant influx

Elaine Ganley · September 7, 2014 7:37 pm

Calais mayor might close port to stop migrants

Calais mayor might close port to stop migrants

Elaine Ganley · September 2, 2014 8:24 pm

This Tuesday Aug. 19, 2014 photo shows French poet, journalist, and a member of the French Resistance Madeleine Riffaud answering a reporter during an interview with the Associated Press in Paris. She holds a book she wrote, with on the cover, a photo of her at the time of WWII. She had a code name, Rainer, and a gun she called Oscar. Just weeks before turning 20, she aimed her weapon at a Nazi officer and shot him dead on a Paris bridge. (AP Photo / Michel Euler)

Paris to celebrate end to Nazi rule 70 years later

Elaine Ganley · August 23, 2014 9:37 am

2 French girls investigated as would-be jihadi

2 French girls investigated as would-be jihadi

Elaine Ganley · August 22, 2014 7:57 pm

Migrants clash in France as camp tensions soar

Elaine Ganley · August 5, 2014 8:37 pm

Energy and Environment

Court rules France responsible in toxic algae case

Elaine Ganley · July 22, 2014 1:14 pm

FILE - This Sunday, March 4, 2012, file photo shows honorary President of far-right party National Front Jean-Marie Le Pen, left, and his daughter French far-right leader and National Front Party candidate for the 2012 French presidential elections, Marine Le Pen, during a campaign meeting in Marseille, southern France. A Greek tragedy is playing out in the House of Le Pen, the seat of France's rising far right, with the wounded patriarch lashing out at his daughter, his political heir, in a feud over an anti-Semitic smear that goes to the heart of her efforts broaden the party's support.(AP Photo/Claude Paris)

French far right torn by father-daughter feud

Elaine Ganley · June 11, 2014 7:54 pm

Jewish museum shooting suspect resists extradition

Jewish museum shooting suspect resists extradition

Elaine Ganley · June 5, 2014 11:37 am