Europe police swoop on terror suspects

Brussels

BELGIAN police killed two terrorists and foiled a "major" attack on Thursday as security forces across Europe swooped on suspected Islamist cells amid heightened alert after last week's massacre in France. The shootout in the eastern Belgian town of Verviers and other raids around Brussels came a week after suspected Islamist gunmen killed 17 people in three days around Paris, including nine journalists at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

French police arrested 10 people in the Paris region who they said may be connected to last week's terror attacks, while two people in Berlin were held on suspicion of planning a major terror attack in Syria.