31 m. ago BREAKING BLOG: Melbourne shooting UPDATES as woman shot dead by cops and man injured

Police have opened fire following a vehicle collision in Melbourne with a woman reportedly shot dead and a man also injured with a massive emergency service presence

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23 h. ago UK and France slam Netanyahu's 'wrong side of humanity' attack on Starmer, Macron and Carney after DC shootings

Armed forces minister Luke Pollard flatly rejected the accusations made by Israel’s Prime Minister

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1 week ago Partir Un Jour (Leave One Day) review – foodie musical is an undercooked turkey

Cannes film festival opening filmDreadful songs add no flavour to dreary tale of a big-city gourmet returning to her home-cooked rootsThe opening gala of Cannes can be such a gamble: a very exposed festival slot which few films need or want, and whose occupants so often turn out to be the squawking overfed turkeys of the big screen. Such a one, sadly, is this listless and supercilious musical – ostensibly on the theme of heartwarming home town values – which flatlines like a hedgehog run over by an 18-wheeler the moment the female lead opens her mouth to sing one of the film’s many terrible songs.Cécile (played by French singer Juliette Armanet) is about to open a restaurant in the big city having recently won a top-rated TV cooking show, and she is dating her colleague Sofiane (Tewfik Jallab). But when she hears that her adorable, exasperating old dad Gérard (François Rollin) has had a heart attack, brought on by the strain of running the family’s truck-stop cafe out in the boondoc...

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3 w. ago Wine tasting bloodbath: Brit mother, 65, stabbed to death in France 'tried to defend herself' during frenzied attack

Karen Carter, 65, was found on Tuesday evening, collapsed and unconscious, 'covered in stab wounds', on the ground next to her car in Trémolat, France

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3 w. ago Second Italian journalist allegedly targeted with ‘mercenary spyware’

Ciro Pellegrino of Fanpage, who has been critical of Meloni government, says notification provoked ‘horrible feeling’A second Italian journalist whose news organisation exposed young fascists within the prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party was targeted with sophisticated “mercenary spyware”, according to an Apple notification received by the reporter.Ciro Pellegrino is the second reporter at the investigative news outlet Fanpage to fall victim to an alleged spyware attack, after his editor-in-chief, Francesco Cancellato. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Pictured: British mother murdered in 'frenzied' attack in France's Dordogne as police confirm details of 'frenzied' attack

Karen Carter’s body was found outside a property she owned and rented out in the village of Trémolat, in the Dordogne

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3 w. ago France says Russian hackers behind attack on Macron’s 2017 presidential campaign

Foreign ministry says Russian military intelligence has attacked a dozen French entities since 2021 including a TV stationFrance has accused Russian military intelligence of carrying out a massive cyber-attack on Emmanuel Macron’s first presidential campaign in 2017 as well as several other recent major hacks, including on a TV station and an organisation involved in the Paris Olympics.The French foreign ministry said for the first time on Tuesday that it was Russian hackers who had targeted Macron’s campaign team in 2017, adding that other Russian targets had included French media and an organisation involved in the 2024 Olympics. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Conman who travelled the world posing as an F1 racing driver to swindle love interests out of cash dies after 30 years of avoiding justice

Jonathan Kern died aged 71 in Lunay, France, last month after suffering a stroke and a heart attack. His death was confirmed by one of his victims, Elizabeth Ballard.

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4 w. ago Nantes school stabbing victim was girl, 15, hacked to death by Adolf Hitler

New details surrounding the identity of a school girl who was killed by an armed teen in France has been released. The boy, identified as Justin, stabbed the girl at least 40 times in Nantes

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4 w. ago Nantes school stabbing suspect's told cops 'shoot me in the head' after knifing classmate

A boy accused of killing a classmate and injuriing others in a knife attack at a school in Nantes, France, allegedly make chilling remarks to police officers as he was arrested

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4 w. ago Nantes school stabbing: Boy's chilling 5 words to police after stabbing classmate to death

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after he was tackled by teachers after a stabbing spree at a school in Nantes, western France - with the teenager sending a chilling email before the rampage

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4 w. ago French PM calls for crackdown on knife crime after fatal high school stabbing

Boy, 15, arrested after at least one child killed and three injured at Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides school in NantesThe French prime minister, François Bayrou, has called for a crackdown on teenage knife crime after a high-school student stabbed four other children at his school, killing at least one and injuring the others before being arrested.The 15-year-old reportedly attacked fellow students with a knife during lunch break on Thursday at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides secondary school in the city of Nantes on the Atlantic coast. The attack took place at around 12.30pm (11.30am BST), before teachers overpowered the boy. One female student was killed. At least one other student is in a critical condition in hospital. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Student killed and three injured in school stabbing attack in France

The attack occurred at a high school in Doulon, near Nantes

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4 w. ago Student killed and three injured in stabbing attack at French high school

Fifteen-year-old student arrested after incident at Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides school near NantesA student at a French high school stabbed four other students at his school on Thursday, killing at least one and injuring three others before being arrested, police said.The circumstances of the attack were not immediately clear. A national police official said it had taken place at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides high school in Nantes on the Atlantic coast. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Nantes school stabbing: One dead and at least three reported injured in France attack

The attack took place at the Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides private school in Nantes, France this morning saw several people reportedly stabbed by a fellow pupil and one has died

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