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Poland’s Muslim community has held a joint prayer service as part of official commemorations of the country’s upcoming Independence Day.

Albania is planning to create the world’s smallest country as a home for a mystical Muslim sect to promote a ‘tolerant version of Islam’.

French authorities have thwarted an Islamist terror attack planned by an 18-year-old Chechen who intended to target a football match in Saint Etienne at the forthcoming Olympics.

German police shot and wounded a man armed with a knife after he attacked participants of a far-right rally in the southwestern town of Mannheim on Friday.

After a public holiday on May 8, children in Slovakia returned to school on Thursday, but heightened security measures will mark this return. Police officers have stationed themselves at schools nationwide following numerous bomb threats targeting schools earlier this week.

The three-day festival marks the joyous culmination of the month of Ramadan.

Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic lunar calendar, occupies a central place in the Islamic faith.