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French rally for attack victims on eve of Paris march of 'millions'
AFP, Published on 10/01/2015
» More than 700,000 people poured onto the streets of France Saturday in solidarity with victims of this week's Islamist attacks, on the eve of a march in Paris expected to dwarf that figure.
French security forces kill gunmen, end hostage sieges
Published on 10/01/2015
» PARIS - With explosions and gunfire, security forces Friday ended three days of terror around Paris, killing the two al-Qaida-linked brothers who staged a murderous rampage at a satirical newspaper and an accomplice who seized hostages at a kosher supermarket to try to help the brothers escape.
Charlie Hebdo manhunt: LIVE REPORT
AFP, Published on 09/01/2015
» 22:08 GMT - With the end of the hostage stand-off, AFP is closing its Live Report. Three assailants are dead and the whereabouts of a fourth are unclear, as France begins to reflect on three days of terror. What started with a massacre at a satirical magazine seems to have ended in a hail of bullets and flash grenades as special police put a stop to two simulantaneous hostage situations by force.
Paris manhunt turns hostage drama
AFP, Published on 09/01/2015
» PARIS - Shots were fired during a car chase and at least one hostage was taken to the north-east of Paris Friday, in the same area police were hunting for two brothers accused of slaughtering 12 people in an Islamist assault.
French forces hunt Charlie Hebdo massacre suspects
AFP, Published on 08/01/2015
» Elite French security forces deployed helicopters in a night-time manhunt Thursday for the two brothers accused of slaughtering 12 people in an Islamist attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
Hunt for Charlie Hebdo killers: Live Report
AFP, Published on 08/01/2015
» 09:20 GMT - PROSECUTORS DENY REPORTS OF CASUALTIES IN HUNT FOR PARIS MASSACRE SUSPECTS
US National Guard sent to Ferguson
AFP, Published on 26/11/2014
» FERGUSON, Missouri (UNITED STATES) - More than 2,000 soldiers deployed in the US town of Ferguson, on a second night of protest after a grand jury chose not to charge a white policeman who shot dead an unarmed black teen.
Troop force tripled in Ferguson as Obama condemns violence
AFP, Published on 26/11/2014
» FERGUSON (UNITED STATES) - More than 2,000 soldiers were ordered into the riot-torn US town of Ferguson on Tuesday, as President Barack Obama condemned violence which erupted after a grand jury chose not to charge a white police officer who shot dead an unarmed black teen.
Troop force tripled in Ferguson as local anger mounts
AFP, Published on 26/11/2014
» More than 2,000 soldiers were ordered into the riot-torn US town of Ferguson on Tuesday as the family of a slain black teenager denounced the "broken" justice system that failed to indict the white policeman who shot him.
No charge for US cop who shot teen
AFP, Published on 25/11/2014
» NEW YORK - The policeman whose killing of an unarmed black teen sparked weeks of riots in the US town of Ferguson will not face charges, the county prosecutor said, as police used tear gas to disperse protesters.