Europe remains on edge more than week after Paris attacks

Europe remained on edge Sunday, more than week after terrorist attacks rattled France, as Italy announced it expelled nine suspected jihadis in recent weeks and Britain called for new action to fight anti-Semitism.

A weekly anti-Islam rally scheduled for Monday in Germany was canceled amid threats from the Islamic State. The group called Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, PEGIDA, said on its Facebook page that it canceled the demonstration in Dresden after the Islamic State militant group issued death threats against PEGIDA organizers. A separate anti-Islamist demonstration planned for Sunday in Paris was also canceled after French authorities said it might disrupt public order.

Amid the heightened tensions, French police continued to interrogate nine terror suspects after releasing three others as part of an anti-terrorism sweep across France, Germany and Britain in recent days. The extended interrogations will take place over the next two days, a step allowed under France's tough anti-terrorism law, Paris prosecutor spokesman Denis Fauriat said Sunday.

Belgium, meanwhile, asked its Greek counterparts to extradite a man detained in Greece a day earlier in connection with a probe of a suspected plot to kill police in Belgium. The suspect held in Greece is not believed to be connected to the Paris attacks, officials said. Yemen announced Saturday it had detained two Frenchmen on charges of belonging to al-Qaeda but didn't say whether they were involved in the Paris killings.

Italy vowed more expulsions after announcing Sunday that five Tunisians and people from Turkey, Egypt, Morocco and Pakistan had been kicked out of the country since late December.

"We said that we would have tightened controls, and we did it before Paris," Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said. "Those expelled … were here for years, and two of these involved their respective families, sending them into Syria to fight."

Europe is grappling with ways to control the flow of radicals to Syria and Iraq. Several nations are concerned that citizens returning from the Middle East — who are free to cross European borders and have a hardened ideology as well as battlefield experience — pose a grave threat of bringing the war home.

French authorities can now ban suspected Islamic extremists from leaving the country, under tough measures that went into effect Friday after being approved by parliament in November. More than 2,500 people from the European Union are suspected of fighting alongside militants in Syria and Iraq, according to the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King's College in London.

British Home Secretary Theresa May called for redoubling efforts to combat anti-Semitism after the chilling siege Jan. 9 on a kosher supermarket in Paris that left four dead. Speaking Sunday at a London commemoration for the victims, May said many Jews are fearful of remaining in the United Kingdom after the attack.

"Without its Jews, Britain would not be Britain, just as without its Muslims, Britain would not be Britain — without its Sikhs, Hindus, Christians and people of other faiths, Britain would not be Britain," she said.

France has deployed more than 120,000 police and troops in recent days while "waging war" on terrorism, French President Francois Hollande said. Belgium took similar measures, using troops to reinforce police in cities for the first time in 30 years on Saturday. Paratroopers fanned out to guard possible terror targets across the country, including some buildings within the Jewish quarter of the port city of Antwerp.

The move came after Belgian police launched a series of anti-terror raids Thursday night, including one that left two terror suspects dead and another injured, to thwart a pending attack on police. There is no apparent link between the foiled plots in Belgium and the terror attacks in Paris, the federal prosecutor's office said.

Violent protests over the weekend rattled Muslim nations around the world after the prophet Mohammed was depicted on the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical newspaper where a brazen assault on its Paris office on Jan. 7 left 12 people dead.

At least 10 people were killed in Niger during protests, President Mahamadou Issoufou said Saturday. Protests in Pakistan went into a fourth day Sunday, with demonstrators in multiple cities burning the French flag and calling for a ban of the weekly paper. More than 10,000 protesters shouted "Down with Charlie Hebdo" and "Death to blasphemers" in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.

The two gunmen responsible for the Charlie Hedbo attack were buried over the weekend. Cherif Kouachi, 32, was buried at a cemetery in Gennevilliers, outside of Paris, late Saturday. His brother, Said Kouachi, 34, was buried in a discreet ceremony late Friday in Reims, about 90 miles east of Paris.

There has been no word yet on burial plans for Amedy Coulibaly, 32, who killed a policewoman before targeting a kosher supermarket. All three gunmen were killed by police Jan. 9 in dual standoffs.

Contributing: The Associated Press