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Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court opened a preliminary examination on Friday into possible war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories,

the first formal step that could lead to charges against Israelis.

to raise the level of antipathy between Israel and the Palestinians

one of the satirical French newspaper's founding members is blaming the publication’s slain editor for provoking the attacks,

one of five staff members killed in last week’s shootings, for his stubbornness after publishing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad, which was followed by the 2011 firebombing of the newspaper’s offices.

What made him feel the need to drag the team into overdoing it?”

The International Criminal Court has begun considering whether to investigate alleged war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Israel and the US have strongly criticised the Palestinians' move.

Israel has accused the Palestinians themselves of committing war crimes, including by firing missiles into civilian areas during the 50-day conflict between Israel and militants in Gaza last year.

(CNN)Two terror suspects killed in a shootout in eastern Belgium this week were among more than a dozen people rounded up in across-the-country raids designed to stop a group's allegedly imminent attack -- a plot to kill Belgian police in streets and stations -- the nation's federal prosecutor said Friday.

The alleged plotters -- including two people killed Thursday night in a battle with police in Verviers -- were confronted in 12 raids across Belgium from Thursday into Friday, federal prosecutor Eric van der Sypt said.

"xenophobia, racism, and extremism have no place in this country."

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Jochaim Gauck were among political and religious leaders who attended

Germany has become more diverse through immigration - religiously, culturally and mentally,

the Belgian police said on Friday that 13 people had been detained in Belgium and two in France after a shootout in which two men believed to be militants were kill

the authorities had conducted searches at a dozen locations where the police had found four weapons normally used by the military, including AK-47 assault rifles,

detainees belonged to the “entourage” of Amedy Coulibaly, one of the three gunmen involved in attacks in and near Paris last week.

(CNN)A boy with a pistol appears to execute two men who are accused of being Russian spies in a new propaganda video released by the terror ISIS group.

In the video, the boy, who has been identified as Abdullah in prior ISIS videos, sports long hair and wears a black sweater and military fatigue pants.

ISIS has featured children as fighters before, calling them the "cubs of the caliphate," a play on words referring to how jihadis are called "lions." ISIS has encouraged foreign fighters to bring their families and has taken over schools to indoctrinate children.

"For the past few months, he was very quiet and he wanted isolation because he was watching or doing something on social media. And that's why he was brainwashed

Now Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, is accused of trying to support ISIS. This week he pleaded not guilty to a federal charge of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

In a letter he left behind for his parents, he wrote that he was leaving the United States and on his way to join ISIS, according to a criminal complaint. He invited them to join him in the "Islamic State," but he warned them not to tell anyone about his travel plans.