Paris attack
Anti-France protests draw thousands in Asia, Middle East
Smaller anti-France protests also took place in the Middle East after Macron's defence of the right to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad -...
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Pakistan summons French envoy over Macron's Islamist remarks
The move came as small, scattered protests were held in cities across Pakistan and a day after Prime Minister Imran Khan accused Macron of 'attacking Islam'.
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French police target Islamist networks after teacher's beheading
Fifteen people have been detained so far, including four pupils who may have helped the killer - an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who was killed by police - to identify the teacher in return for payment.
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'We are not afraid': France rallies after beheading of teacher
Samuel Paty was brutally murdered on his way home from the school where he taught in a suburb northwest of Paris on Friday afternoon.
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France to rally in solidarity, defiance after beheading of teacher
The killing of history teacher Samuel Paty in a Paris suburb Friday has sparked outrage in France and memories of a wave of Islamist violence in 2015 sparked by caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed published by the satirical magazine 'Charlie Hebdo'.
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Teacher decapitated in France after showing Muhammad caricatures
According to a police source, the victim was a history teacher who recently discussed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class.
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Macron vows 'unrelenting fight' against Islamist terror after police killings
French President Emmanuel Macron called on all of France to unify and act in order to overcome what he termed the 'Islamist hydra', referring to a multi-headed serpent of Greek mythology.
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Pressure for answers after deadly Paris attack on police
Harpon, who was partly deaf, used a kitchen knife and an oyster shucker to kill three police officials and an administrative staffer - three men and a woman - and injure two others in a 30-minute lunchtime rampage that ended when an officer shot him in the head.
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Four police killed in Paris stabbing, attacker shot dead
A man wielding a knife stabbed and killed four officers at the police headquarters in the heart of central Paris on Thursday, before being shot dead.
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Man arrested after knife attack in Paris wounds 7: source
Four of the victims suffered severe wounds, the source said.
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Paris attacks suspect guilty of attempted murder in Belgium
Neither Abdeslam nor co-accused Sofien Ayari, who Belga said was also found guilty, were in court to hear the ruling on Monday.
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French court acquits man who rented flat to Paris attackers
The attackers, Abdelhamid Abaaoud and Chakib Akrouh, hid out in Jawad Bendaoud’s flat after they and a group of other gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in 2015.
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France backs tough anti-terrorism bill after wave of attacks
The new legislation would see many of those emergency powers enshrined in law, with limited oversight from the judiciary.
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Eight wounded in shooting near French mosque – source
Four people were wounded outside the mosque while a family of four in their apartment some fifty metres away took shrapnel.
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Man tries to drive car into crowd in front of French mosque
The man’s motives were unclear, and he had not succeeded in reaching the crowd because of barriers in front of the mosque, police said in a statement.
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Champs Elysees attacker stashed weapons, was on French watch list
The man was placed on France’s so-called ‘Fiche S’ watch list after he was found to belong to a radical Islamist movement, two police sources said.
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Notre Dame attacker shouted 'this is for Syria' before being shot
The assailant wounded one officer before he was shot and wounded by other officers.
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France votes in cliffhanger presidential election
Macron is the opinion polls’ favourite to win the first round and beat National Front chief Marine Le Pen in the two-person run-off on 7 May.
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Security dominates French election after shooting
The killing of a policeman by a suspected Islamist militant pushed national security to the top of the French political agenda ahead of the presidential election.
