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French army paratroopers patrol near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, in this picture taken on March 30, 2016. The French government will propose extending the country's state of emergency until July 15, 2017 due to presidential and parliament elections in spring next year, the French Prime Minister said December 10, 2016. Picture taken on March 30, 2016. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo

Paris terror attacks

French government seeks extension of state of emergency

10 Dec 2016 - 9:51PM

French policewoman claims ministry pressured her to change Nice attack report

25 Jul 2016 - 9:23PM

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

22 Jul 2016 - 9:21PMvideocam

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

22 Jul 2016 - 9:21PM

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

PM Valls says France must ‘learn to live with’ terrorism, warning there will be more deadly attacks

20 Jul 2016 - 10:49PM

Video | Nice attacker recently radicalized: prosecutors

19 Jul 2016 - 10:27AM

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

19 Jul 2016 - 9:48PMvideocam

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

18 Jul 2016 - 7:17PM

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

18 Jul 2016 - 10:31PM

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

18 Jul 2016 - 10:31PM

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

How France’s glitzy Riviera has become an emerging hot spot for jihadis

16 Jul 2016 - 8:04PM

A boy carriers a French flag outside the French Consulate in New York. Photo: AFP

Islamic State claims responsibility for truck attack in Nice as pressure mounts on government over security failings

16 Jul 2016 - 5:52PM

Twitter, Facebook move quickly to remove extremists’ posts celebrating truck attack in Nice

16 Jul 2016 - 9:42PM

French conservatives hammer Socialist government over alleged security lapses that enabled attack in Nice

16 Jul 2016 - 9:42PM

Nicolas Sarkozy, head of France's Les Republicains political party. Photo: Reuters

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

16 Jul 2016 - 11:48PM

A reproduction of the residence permit of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel. Photo: AFP

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

16 Jul 2016 - 4:40AMvideocam

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

15 Jul 2016 - 10:59PM

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

16 Jul 2016 - 8:38AM

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

15 Jul 2016 - 10:00PM

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

15 Jul 2016 - 7:33PM

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

15 Jul 2016 - 10:04PM

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

15 Jul 2016 - 9:29PMvideocam

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

15 Jul 2016 - 12:01PM

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

15 Jul 2016 - 11:50AMvideocam

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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