Moscow / AFP Russia’s security service said on Tuesday it had detained five suspects with ties to the IS extremist group who were plotting to carry out attacks in the country. The FSB security service said in a statement it had “thwarted the activities of a group created to perpetrate crimes of a terrorist and extremist nature” in Moscow and …

  Rome/ AFP A farming crisis in war-torn Syria has reduced food production to a record low and raised fears people in the conflict-hit country will be forced to flee famine, the UN’s food agency said on Tuesday. “Widespread insecurity and unfavourable weather conditions” in parts of the country continue to “hamper access to land, farming supplies and markets”, the Rome-based …

  Madrid / AFP Spanish police were searching on Tuesday for several Algerians who fled a migrant detention centre following a riot, the sixth such incident since August as calls mount to close the facilities. In the latest incident, which took place on Monday evening, nine Algerians escaped from a holding centre in Murcia, a region in the south east, …