German authorities have conducted raids across the country, seizing explosives and arresting four people accused of founding a right-wing extremist group to attack mosques and housing for asylum seekers.

Your editorial (‘Attack will not change our beliefs - the right to free speech’, February 16) about recent gun attacks in Copenhagen perceptively refers to the rise in anti-semitism.

The last illusions about what was called, until recently, the Arab Spring may have vanished.

German police have raided properties linked to an ultra-conservative Islamic organisation after the interior minister banned the group.

WOMEN in Cairo’s Coptic hospital wailed for their dead and Christians accused Egypt’s generals of failing to protect them from strict Islamists after 25 people, most of them Coptic demonstrators, were killed in clashes with troops.