France: 5 Attacks Foiled Since January

French police have thwarted five attacks since a January assault on the offices of Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish grocery by Islamic extremist gunmen left 20 people dead, including the attackers, Prime Minster Manuel Valls said Thursday. "Never has the threat been so high," Valls told France Inter radio, noting the fact that hundreds of French nationals were now in Syria where they risked being radicalized. Valls was speaking a day after authorities said they had arrested a...

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