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French policewoman claims ministry pressured her to change Nice attack report

‘I hit him again and again, with all my force’: scooter rider who tried to stop Nice attacker tells of life-and-death struggle

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Terror charges for five ‘accomplices’ of Nice truck attacker, who plotted atrocity for months: prosecutor

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Video | Nice attacker recently radicalized: prosecutors

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Truck attacker was pork-eating drug-user with ‘unbridled sex life’ before taking religious turn, French investigators say

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People walk through a makeshift memorial to victims of the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice on Monday. Photo: AFP

After Nice, we all must learn to live with a certain amount of terrorism

Zhou Zunyou says the recent mass murder in Nice shows that even a state on high alert, as France was, cannot protect its citizens all the time from every kind of attack

Police describe ‘almost face-to-face’ shootout with Bastille Day truck killer

Bastille Day attacker sent text asking for ‘more weapons’, French reports say, as another two suspects are detained

People gather at a makeshift memorial of flowers and candles on the 'Promenade des Anglais', scene of the Bastille Day truck attack tat killed 84 people. Photo: EPA

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Father of Nice attacker insists ‘he had no links to religion’ but had previously suffered mental problems

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Update | With 84 dead in Bastille Day nightmare: France wonders if truck driver acted alone

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Hollande: dozens of people ‘between life and death’ following devastating truck attack in Nice

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Attack in Nice reminds the world of how deadly effective trucks can be when used as weapons

Police stand by as medical personnel attend a person on the ground, right, in the early hours of Friday, July 14, 2016, on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, southern France, next to the lorry that had been driven into crowds of revellers late on Thursday. Photo: AP

Police in Nice identify driver of truck in attack – neighbours say he was ‘good-looking’ loner

Attack in Nice was the ‘fault of Western elites who lack guts’, says Newt Gingrich

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‘I saw bodies flying like bowling pins in its path. Heard sounds, howls that I will never forget’

A body believed to be that of a child, a doll at their feet, is wrapped in a foil blanket on the Nice promenade in Thursday night. Photo: Reuters

Update | Bastille Day horror: ‘terrorist’ truck driver dies in shoot-out with police after ploughing through revellers in France, leaving 2km trail of carnage

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Authorities say at least 80 are dead after the atrocity on the Nice promenade, with the driver killed in a hail of police gunfire

Video | 'Terror' probe begins in Nice attack

Breaking | Bastille Day horror: scores killed as ‘terrorist’ truck driver ploughs through revellers in France, leaving 2km trail of carnage

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Authorities say at least 80 are dead after the atrocity on the Nice promenade, with the driver killed in a hail of police gunfire
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