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Memorial for slain Ukrainian journalist Pavel Sheremet held in Kyiv

Hundreds of people came to pay tribute to a prominent Ukrainian journalist who died in a car bombing in Kyiv earlier this week.

World News

Nice attack: planned in advance with accomplices

Parisian prosecutor Francois Molins revealed on Thursday that the Nice attacker did not act alone.

Israel

Israel slammed for impeachment law dubbed 'anti-Arab' by critics

Feelings are running high after Israel’s parliament passed a law giving members the right to impeach fellow MPs for incitement to violence, racism, or support for armed struggle against the…

Business Line

Terror and tourism: changing the travel landscape

In this edition of Business Line we analyse the travel situation around the Mediterranean following terror attacks in the French city of Nice and the coup attempt in Turkey.

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France

'Paris Plage' beach festival opens amid heightened security

The annual Paris Plage beach festival has kicked off in the French capital, amid heightened security measures.

Germany

Questions over Germany's refugee policy after train attack

Germany’s Interior Minister sought to play down any link between the government’s refugee policy and the axe attack by an Afghan asylum seeker aboard a train in…

Germany

German train attacker vowed revenge on 'infidels'

The teenage Afghan teenager who carried out the axe-and-knife attack on a train in southern Germany left behind a letter and a video saying he sought to avenge the deaths of civilians in Muslim…

France

Family of four seriously injured in French Alps knife attack

A man has stabbed and wounded a woman and her three daughters in the French Alps for being scantily dressed, according to local media reports.

Germany

Afghan axe attacker 'self-radicalised recently'- German official

A note found in the Afghan axe attacker’s room indicates he may have self-radicalised recently, according to the Bavarian Interior Minister.

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Nice memorial for minute's silence

Drone footage shows the thousands of people who gathered along the Promenade des Anglais for a minute of silence in memory of the Nice truck attack victims.

Germany

ISIL claims responsibility for axe attack by Afghan youth on German train

ISIL says an Afghan teenager who carried out an axe attack on a German train, severely wounding four people, was one of its fighters.

Germany

Afghan youth attacks German train passengers with axe

Four passengers on a train in southern Germany were wounded, three of them seriously when a 17-year-old Afghan refugee suddenly attacked them with an axe and a…

Kazakhstan

Four killed in Almaty 'terrorist' shootout

At least three policemen and one civilian were killed in street shootings in Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty on Monday (July 18), security officials said.

France

France: Anti-government anger as Nice honours truck victims

Jeers and calls for France’s political leaders to resign overshadowed a minute’s silence in the southern coastal city of Nice on Monday as Prime Minister Manuel Valls and others paid tribute to the vi

USA

Baton Rouge gunman's anger at police

The man identified as the killer of three US police officers in Baton Rouge had posted videos complaining about the police treatment of African-Americans.

USA

Baton Rouge gunman was ex-marine who served in Iraq

The gunman who killed three American policemen and wounded three others in Louisiana has been identified as a former US marine sergeant who had served in Iraq.

France

France holds one minute silence for victims of Nice truck attack

Prime Minister Manuel Valls joined thousands packing the Nice seafront for a minute of silence in homage to the victims.

France

Anger as search for missing relatives in Nice continues

For two days Tahar Mejri searched the hospitals of Nice for his missing son, having already lost his wife Olfa.

World News

Attack in Nice: eyewitnesses recount terror

France has yet to awaken from the nightmare of Thursday’s attack in Nice.

France

Attack on Nice: France seeks answers to what drove killer

As France tries to come to terms with the horror of Thursday night’s events in Nice which saw 84 people killed, including at least 10 children, investigators are still focusing on what pushed Mohamed

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