Elaine Ganley

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FILE - In this hand out file photo distributed on Sunday, May 25, 2014 by the Belgian Federal Police, a surveillance camera shows a man shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium, on Saturday, May 24, 2014. The Paris prosecutor's office said a man has been arrested Friday May 30, 2014 in the investigation of the shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels that left at least three people dead. (AP Photo/Belgian Federal Police, File)

Jewish Museum attack suspect wants French trial

Elaine Ganley · June 4, 2014 3:57 pm

The Belgian and Israeli flag hang on a rail in front of candle and flower tributes a for the victims of a shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, on Monday, June 2, 2014. Police have arrested a suspect after three people were killed and one seriously injured in a spree of gunfire at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Saturday, May 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Arrest shows Europe’s challenge to track jihadi

Elaine Ganley · June 3, 2014 11:50 am

Far right party National Front leader Marine Le Pen poses for photographers before addressing reporters at the party's headquarters in Nanterre, west of Paris, Sunday May 25, 2014, following the victory of her party in the European Elections. (AP Photo / Remy de la Mauviniere)

French far right surges to lead in Europe vote

Elaine Ganley · May 25, 2014 10:41 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2006 file photo, a dark van followed by a limousine arrives at the Orsini Odescalchi castle in the lakeside town of Bracciano, some 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Rome where U.S. actor Tom Cruise will wed actress Katie Holmes. As Romeo said: "My bounty is as boundless as the sea ... the more I give to thee, the more I have." His modern-day counterparts _ the kind with deep pockets _ are going all out to offer extravagant, star-studded weddings to their own Juliets. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File)

Lavish weddings the norm for celebrity Romeos

Elaine Ganley · May 22, 2014 5:52 pm

Woman wearing traditional muslim scarf and holding French flags gather outside the town hall in Mantes la Ville, north west of Paris, Friday, May 16, 2014, in protest of the ban of a new mosque. A new mosque for Muslims approved last year and paid with a heavy deposit is suddenly in limbo in a town outside Paris, and new shops in a southern town that reflect Muslims' traditions will be banned. Newly-installed far-right mayors in Mantes-la-Ville, west of the French capital, and in Beaucaire, in southwest France, are rolling out their programs and the large Muslim populations in their towns risk getting crushed. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France’s far right on the rise ahead of EU vote

Elaine Ganley · May 18, 2014 8:30 am

FILE - This Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows rebels from al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra waving their brigade flag as they step on the top of a Syrian air force helicopter, at Taftanaz air base that was captured by the rebels, in Idlib province, northern Syria. It is announced Wednesday April 23, 2014, that French authorities are taking steps to crack down on the flow of young would-be jihadis embarking to fight in Syria's civil war, with measures including travel restrictions and withdrawal of passports, and increased monitoring of alleged jihadi web sites. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN, FILE)

National Security

France unveils plan to stop youths joining jihad

Elaine Ganley · April 23, 2014 5:48 pm

French President Francois Hollande, third from left, speaks with released French hostages, from left, Didier Francois, Edouard Elias, Nicolas Henin and Pierre Torres, at the Villacoublay military airbase, outside Paris, Sunday, April 20, 2014. The four French journalists kidnapped and held for 10 months in Syria returned home on Sunday to joyful families awaiting them. The four were freed by their captives a day earlier at the Turkish border. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

4 French journalists home after long Syrian ordeal

Elaine Ganley · April 20, 2014 2:42 pm

Far-right sets sights on European Parliament

Elaine Ganley · April 2, 2014 8:55 pm

French far right: No funds for religious groups

Elaine Ganley · March 3, 2014 7:52 pm

Radical Femen leader plans US feminist outpost

Elaine Ganley · February 20, 2014 3:17 pm

In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 . Activists said the latest Syrian government shelling has killed and wounded several people in a rebel-held area of the northern city of Aleppo. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Syria becoming magnet for young French Muslims

Elaine Ganley · February 1, 2014 1:02 pm

In this citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians search under rubble to rescue people from houses that were destroyed by a Syrian government warplane, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. United Nations experts are investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria as the United States and its allies prepare for the possibility of a punitive strike against President Bashar Assad's regime, blamed by the Syrian opposition for the attack. The international aid group Doctors Without Borders says at least 355 people were killed in the Aug. 21 attack in a suburb of Damascus, the Syrian capital. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)

Syrians steel themselves for US strike

Elaine Ganley, David Espo, Associated Press · August 30, 2013 4:00 am