PARIS, (APP/AFP): France has declared three days of national mourning from Saturday after at least 84 people were mown down by a truck while watching a Bastille Day fireworks display, the prime minister said. Manuel Valls also told reporters that the government wants to extend the state of emergency which has been in force since […]
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France declares three-day national mourning after truck attack: PM
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Putin, Kerry did not discuss military cooperation in Syria: Kremlin
MOSCOW, (APP/AFP) – President Vladimir Putin and US Secretary of State John Kerry did not discuss military cooperation in Syria during talks aimed at reviving the stalled peace process in the war-torn country, the Kremlin said Friday. “The topic of direct military cooperation in the fight against terrorism did not figure” in the talks, Kremlin […]
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At least 84 dead in ‘terrorist’ Nice truck attack
NICE, France, (APP/AFP) – A gunman smashed a truck into a crowd of revellers celebrating Bastille Day in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 84 people in what President Francois Hollande on Friday declared a “terrorist” attack. Police shot the driver dead after he barrelled the truck two kilometres (1.3 miles) through a […]
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Germany at France’s side in fight against terrorism: Merkel
ULAN BATOR, (APP/AFP) – Germany “stands alongside France in the fight against terrorism,” Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday, after a gunman killed more than 80 people by smashing a truck into a crowd in the resort of Nice. “We are all united in shock,” Merkel said on the sidelines of the two-day Asia-Europe summit, known […]
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Nice truck attack death toll rises to 84: interior ministry
PARIS, July 15 (APP/AFP): An attack in Nice where a man rammed a truck into a crowd of people left 84 dead and another 18 in a “critical condition”, interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said Friday. An unidentified gunman barrelled the truck two kilometres (1.3 miles) through a crowd that had been enjoying a fireworks […]
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Nice truck driver fired pistol several times: investigative sources
NICE, France, July 15, (APP/AFP) – The truck driver who rammed his vehicle into a massive crowd in Nice fired a pistol several times before being shot dead by police, an investigative source said Friday. A separate source close to the case said an “inactive” grenade was found inside the 19-tonne truck, as well as […]