French magistrates have filed preliminary charges against a nuclear scientist accused of links to al-Qaeda. The 32-year-old man of Algerian descent was one of two brothers detained in the south-east town of Vienne on Thursday. Read more
French police have arrested a nuclear physicist on suspicion that he had links to terrorist organisations in Algeria, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said Friday. The man was one of more than 7,000 scientists working at the organisation and has been assigned to analysis projects under contract with an outside institute, said the organization, known as CERN. Read more