THE Netherlands can ban over-the-counter sales of marijuana in Dutch “coffee shops” to non-residents to end drugs tourism from Ireland, Belgium, France, Germany and other countries, a senior adviser to the European Union high court said yesterday.

A Paris appeals court today overturned the convictions of six people convicted of paedophilia after a contrite public prosecutor said the case was riddled with errors and called for the defendants to be acquitted.

French security service agents apprehended 13 suspected militants, including one about to flee the country, in a dawn raid today that was launched to track down the perpetrators of a terrorist attack in Morocco last year.