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What we know about the gunman in France
AFP, Published on 24/03/2018
» PARIS - The gunman who killed three people in southwest France on Friday before being shot dead by police was a 25-year-old small-time drug dealer with a history of minor crimes.
Hero French policeman fighting for life after jihadist shooting spree
AFP, Published on 24/03/2018
» TRèBES (FRANCE) - A heroic policeman who swapped himself for a hostage was fighting for his life Saturday after being shot by a gunman who killed three people in a shooting spree French President Emmanuel Macron branded "an Islamist terrorist attack".
Indonesian 'house pet' orangutans rescued by activists
AFP, Published on 24/03/2018
» JAKARTA - Young orangutan Utu clings to one of his rescuers as he is freed from the tiny wooden cage that has been home for five years.
French officer who swapped himself for hostage dies
Associated Press, Published on 24/03/2018
» TREBES, France: A French police officer who offered himself up to an extremist gunman in exchange for a hostage has died of his injuries, the interior minister said Saturday.
Syria rebels prepare to quit enclave on Damascus doorstep
AFP, Published on 24/03/2018
» ARBIN (SYRIA) - Syrian rebels and civilians prepared on Saturday to evacuate the penultimate opposition-held pocket of Eastern Ghouta, as the government moved ever closer to securing the outskirts of the capital.
France pays tribute to victims of jihadist attack
AFP, Published on 25/03/2018
» TRèBES (FRANCE) - Mourners in a rural French town rocked by a deadly Islamist attack will hold a mass on Sunday to pay tribute to the victims, including a policeman hailed a hero for offering himself in place of a hostage.
Mother of slain French officer urges tolerance ahead of tribute
AFP, Published on 26/03/2018
» PARIS - The mother of a French policeman killed after taking the place of a hostage during a jihadist gunman's attacks last week called for tolerance Monday as the country prepared a national tribute for the officer.
Rescue mission for British man overboard in Volvo Ocean Race
AFP, Published on 27/03/2018
» WELLINGTON - A high-seas search was underway Tuesday after a Volvo Ocean Race crew member washed overboard amid gale-force winds in the hostile Southern Ocean, race organisers said.
Hopes dwindling for British sailor overboard in Volvo Ocean Race
AFP, Published on 27/03/2018
» WELLINGTON - Deteriorating weather forced a Volvo Ocean Race yacht to abandon its search for a British crew member washed overboard in the hostile Southern Ocean Tuesday, with organisers admitting hopes of finding the man alive were fading.
Two charged with anti-Semitic murder of elderly French Jewish woman
AFP, Published on 27/03/2018
» PARIS - Two people have been charged with the murder of an 85-year-old French Jewish woman, who was stabbed and whose body was then set alight in a crime being treated as anti-Semitic, a judicial source said Tuesday.