PARIS—French authorities on Saturday opened a formal investigation on terrorism charges against a woman detained in connection with a car loaded with cooking-gas canisters found last weekend near Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral. The suspect, identified as Ornella G., will be investigated on preliminary charges of terrorist association and attempted murder as part of a terrorist group, the prosecutor’s office said. She is the first...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 10, 2016 14:37 UTC