by VivienneWalt | Mar 22, 2016 | Articles, Europe
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS Just last Thursday, French riot police converged on a soccer stadium in Nimes in the south of France, dressed in gas masks and carrying helmets. Luckily, the crisis was not real that time. It was an exercise to test how prepared the French...
by VivienneWalt | Mar 19, 2016 | Articles, Europe
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS Until just a few days ago, the manhunt for the most wanted fugitive in Europe seemed at an infuriating dead-end. Indeed, it was not even clear to intelligence officials and police whether Salah Abdeslam—the sole surviving alleged perpetrator...
by VivienneWalt | Mar 18, 2016 | Articles, Europe
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS Police in Brussels cornered and wounded the last Paris attacker known to have survived the Nov.13 assault on Friday, ending Europe’s biggest manhunt in years, but also raising troubling questions about whether a plot for another terror attack...
by VivienneWalt | Feb 3, 2016 | Articles, Europe
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS The national state of emergency in France declared hours after ten gunmen killed 130 people in Paris has led to thousands of warrantless house searches and hundreds of curfew orders, wreaking havoc on the lives of countless seemingly innocent...
by VivienneWalt | Jan 29, 2016 | Articles, Europe, Middle East
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani whizzed around Rome and Paris this week with dozens of Iranian CEOs in tow, signing deals worth billions of dollars to export oil, overhaul his country’s airline fleet, manufacture cars, and more. On Thursday,...
by VivienneWalt | Jan 28, 2016 | Articles, Europe, Featured Article
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS A cell phone chimed in Brussels’ heavily Muslim district of Molenbeek after midnight on Nov. 14, as much of the world watched the carnage in Paris, where dozens lay dead in Europe’s worst terrorist attack in years. “Come get me,” read the...
