VERSAILLES: A man in his sixties opened fire on shoppers outside a supermarket near Paris on Monday, severely injuring two people before fleeing the scene, police sources said.
PARIS: France's government sought Monday to open a new chapter in relations with the country's Muslims following a summer scarred by jihadist attacks and a ban on burkinis that ratcheted up communal tensions.
PARIS: French authorities have shut down around 20 mosques and prayer halls considered to be preaching radicalism since December, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday.
PARIS: A fresh crisis hit France's government Sunday when a senior policewoman claimed the interior ministry pressured her to alter a report into security at the Nice fireworks display where 84 were killed when a man rammed a lorry into the crowd.
VALLON PONT-D'ARC:Â Chris Froome turned the screw on his Tour de France rivals when he took second place in Friday's windswept individual time trial behind Tom Dumoulin as the race continued under heightened security and in a low-key mood after the deadly Nice attack.
PARIS, FRANCE: Politicians from around the world have reacted with horror after a truck smashed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 80 as they watched a Bastille Day fireworks display.
ULAN BATOR, MONGOLIA: Sympathy and condemnation for the Nice attack dominated the opening of an Asia Europe summit in Mongolia on Friday, drawing attention away from Beijing's rejection of a tribunal ruling dismissing its extensive South China Sea claims.