Greece will extradite to Belgium an Algerian man with suspected links to a jihadist cell dismantled by Belgian security forces last week, a justice source said Tuesday.
The 33-year-old suspect, who has said he is willing to be sent to Belgium because he wants to prove his innocence, will be extradited later Tuesday or Wednesday, the source said.

France arrested five Russians Tuesday accused of plotting a new attack as four men suspected of helping the gunmen behind the Paris shootings were brought before anti-terrorist judge.
European nations, on high alert after the attacks that shook France to its core, have launched a wave of raids targeting suspected jihadist cells.

More than 1,000 people in the Muslim Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan protested on Tuesday against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in the wake of the attack on Charlie Hebdo in France.
People gathered under the slogan "I love the prophet" for the rally in the impoverished ex-Soviet state's capital Bishkek, lawmaker Tursunbai Bakir Uulu told AFP.

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday condemned police abuse of migrants living in makeshift camps in France's northern port city of Calais, from where they hope to cross to Britain.
The organization also slammed the slow response of the French government to the poor living conditions of the migrants, whose numbers have swelled to over 2,000 in recent months.

A drone briefly flew over the French presidential palace in central Paris late on Thursday, a source at the presidency said.
Confirming a report on iTELE channel, the source with the Elysee Palace said the device spent only "a few seconds" over the palace and was "immediately spotted" by police guarding the building.

Australia on Tuesday raised the terrorism threat level against the police force to high for the first time, saying there were small but growing numbers of citizens involved with jihadist groups and intent on attacks.
Australian Federal Police said the decision had been taken based on intelligence-gathering and discussions with partners and was in line with the broader threat for the country, also raised to high in September.

Four men accused of having links to the jihadists behind the Paris attacks were due to appear before a judge in France on Tuesday, while police in neighboring Germany staged fresh raids on suspected extremists.
The four men, aged between 22 and 28, were arrested on Friday on suspicion of helping supply weapons and vehicles to the gunmen who killed 17 people in three days of violence around Paris.

A 67-year-old French woman was kidnapped on Monday in the capital of the Central African Republic where she was carrying out humanitarian work, the French presidency said.
"France condemns this act... and calls for those responsible to free our compatriot as soon as possible," the presidency said in a statement, adding the French embassy in Bangui was in constant contact with the archbishopric which was holding talks with the kidnappers.

The number of anti-Muslim incidents in France has soared since the Islamist attacks in Paris two weeks ago, an organization that tracks Islamophobia said Monday.
The National Observatory Against Islamophobia said 116 anti-Muslim incidents had been reported to authorities since the January 7-9 shooting spree by three French jihadists that killed 17.

More than 2,000 Iranians protested Monday outside the French embassy in Tehran, chanting "Death to France" and urging the ambassador be expelled because of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.
The demonstration was in response to French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's use of the cartoon in an edition published a week after 12 people were killed by Islamist gunmen at its Paris offices.
