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The fear that lies over Europe

30/07/2016 GMT

The Fear that Lies over Europe

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Recent Islamist attacks have changed the way Europe and its people feel about themselves

Recent Islamist attacks have changed the way Europe and its people feel about themselves.

Recent attacks in Europe, most though not all Islamist-inspired, have changed the atmosphere in Europe. It has become more cautious, more fearful. Plus, why pupils in Kenya are burning down their schools; the political conventions in the United States point to a fork in the road ahead; and has coal consumption in China really peaked?

(Photo: Men stand near flowers left in tribute to the French priest killed in a suburb of Rouen by men claiming allegiance to so-called Islamic State. Credit: Reuters)

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