At least 13 people, including a child, were injured on Friday when a suspected explosive device went off near a bakery in the central French city of Lyon, local officials said. The suspect was captured on security video leaving a case in
A train and a school bus have collided near Perpignan in southern France, killing at least four children, the interior ministry says. A train has ploughed into a school bus at a crossing in south-west France, killing at least four children and injuring more than 20 others, nine critically. Most of the victims were reported
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French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s campaign says it has been the target of a “massive” computer hack that dumped its emails online, just over 24 hours before voters go to the polls to choose between the centrist and his far-right rival Marine Le Pen. Macron’s political movement En Marche! (Onwards!) said the release of thousands of
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France has closed in the first round of the presidential vote, and for the first time in modern French history, no major-party candidate will advance to the runoff. First projections based on partial results showed Emmanuel Macron , a former minister and leader of the centrist En Marche! party and Marine Le Pen , president
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Witnesses of the ‘terror’ attack on the Champs-Elysees in Paris tonight have told of the chaos that erupted when gunfire opened in the popular shopping district. One policeman is confirmed dead and another two seriously injured after the shooting on Thursday night, which police say may be terror, or an attempt at armed robbery. “People
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