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Two people have died and four are injured following a shooting in central Paris. The incident happened near Kurdish cultural centre Ahmet-Kaya at 16 rue d’Enghien in the French capital's 10th arrondissement.

Interpol has issued a global 'Red Notice' for an escaped fugitive known as 'The Fly' after a brutal prison van attack in France killed two police officers.

International crime-fighting organisation Interpol has issued a global 'Red Notice' for an escaped criminal known as 'The Fly'. The move is part of a manhunt to capture Mohamed Amra, 30, who managed to escape a prison van following an incident that left two guards dead at a toll booth on a motorway in northwest France.

The Olympic flame touched down in France on Wednesday with some 150,000 people gathering in the southern city of Marseille’s historic port area to watch its transfer onto French soil after a 12-day journey from Greece in a hundred-year-old three-masted sailing ship.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent With France on its highest level of security alert amid geopolitical turmoil in Ukraine and the Middle East, organizers behind the Paris Olympics are still going ahead with ambitious plans to host the opening ceremony along the Seine river on July 26. Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, said on Monday in an interview with French outlets BFM TV and RMC that the opening ceremony could relocate to an indoor location “depending on our analysis of the context.” “We have fallback scenarios.

Organizers of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival said today that the event will open on June 11 as planned, but open-air screenings will be postponed a day following a Thursday knife attack in the city involving a group of nursery school-age children.

A British child is among the victims injured following an attack at a lakeside park in the French Alps, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said.

Several young children and at least one adult were stabbed by an attacker with a knife in France, the country’s interior minister has said. The attack, which happened on Thursday (June 8) morning in a square in the lakeside Alpine town of Annecy, has left some fighting for their lives.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent The chief of the Annecy Film Festival, Mickael Marin, has addressed the tragic knife attack that injured five people, including four children, on Thursday morning (June 8) at a busy lakeside park, just days before the start of the international animation film festival. “We are all shocked here. So far, the only thing that I can say is that we really hope that kids and other people injured will be fine. Of course, we will do something (to express our solidarity). For the time being, the only thing that we can do is to pray for the people who were attacked,” Marin told Variety. Two children and one adult are severely injured, according to France Info. The suspect, arrested by police shortly after the attack, is a Syrian refugee who applied for asylum in France and eventually got it from Sweden in April, according to local reports. France’s anti-terrorist prosecutors office hasn’t yet been seized.

Gerald Darmanin has defended Marlene Schiappa's playboy cover photoshoot. The minister for the social economy was fully clothed for the shoot for the April edition of the magazine in France.

Brits travelling to France have been warned to “avoid demonstrations” as protests erupt across the country. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has updated its travel advice after protests broke out in Paris and elsewhere.

Six people were injured in an unprovoked attack at the busy Gare Du Nord train station in Paris early Wednesday morning.

Champions League final in Paris, has finally admitted that he made a mistake in saying that 40,000 Liverpool fans tried to gain entry to the Stade de France with fake tickets - before defending his initial allegation. The 56-year-old Paris police chief testified before a French Senate commission tasked with investigating the horrendous scenes and admitted that that security operations had been a "failure" while apologising for the use of tear gas.The authorities had blamed fake tickets and late arrivals among English supporters for the chaotic pre-match scenes, but the use of tear-gas and pepper-spray on fans that included women and children caused uproar worldwide.Lallement said on Thursday (June 9): "Perhaps I made a mistake with the figure I gave to the minister."Before adding: "I never claimed that it was absolutely accurate." Liverpool fans, including UFC star Paddy Pimblett also shared details on attacks on their fanbase both before and after the fixture, with Lallement admitting that his force was not prepared.

Jurgen Klopp has sensationally been blamed for some of the chaos by the French home secretary for inviting chaos around the Stade de France during Saturday's Champions League final.The Liverpool boss, 54, has been called out by Gerald Darmanin for contributing to the horrendous scenes that saw Reds fans blasted with tear gas and pepper spray whilst waiting to enter the 80,000 seater stadium. French officials claimed supporters arriving without valid tickets was the reason for a three-and-half-hour hold-up outside the ground, which saw a significant section miss the entirety of the first half.But now Klopp has also been criticised by French authorities for supposedly encouraging fans to head to Paris even if they did not have a ticket for the match.

The French Government have refused to shoulder any of the blame and incredibly pointed the finger at Liverpool FC for the events outside the ground that overshadowed the Champions League Final in Paris on Saturday.

More people have been brought ashore in the UK after dangerously crossing the Channel.

More than 20 migrants have died after their boat sank in the English Channel, French media has reported.

Several migrants have died after their boat capsized in the English Channel, the French interior minister has said.

A suspect who tried to stab multiple police officer in France this morning has been shot.A police officer was wounded with a knife at around 6:35am as he was sat in a police car in front of the Cannes police station.The policeman was saved by his bulletproof vest as another policeman acted quickly to shoot and injure the suspect.The attack in Cannes comes as the public worry over violent crime and terrorism which are among voters' main concerns in the run-up to the 2022 French Presidential election.Speaking on Twitter, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said: "I am going there immediately this morning and I give all my support to the national police and to the city of Cannes.I am going to the scene immediately this morning and I offer

Charlie Hebdo, French authorities said. Counter- terrorism officers are investigating what authorities called an Islamic extremist attack linked to Charlie Hebdo, which lost 12 employees in an al-Qaida attack in 2015.

The bloody attack on two journalists smoking in front of the former offices of Charlie Hebdo was an act of 'Islamic terrorism', according to a French minister.