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Eight suspects went on trial Monday over the harrowing July 2016 attack in the Mediterranean city of Nice, where an Islamist extremist killed 86 people by drivi

86 died when truck rammed through Bastille Day crowds; 8 on trial for charges related to supporting the driver

Eight suspects go on trial Monday over the July 2016 attack in the Mediterranean city of Nice where a radical Islamist killed 86 people by driving a truck into thousands of locals and tourists celebrating France's national day.

Eight suspects go on trial Monday over the July 2016 attack in the Mediterranean city of Nice where a radical Islamist killed 86 people by driving a truck into thousands of locals and tourists celebrating France's national day.The attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, was shot dead by police following the more than four-minute rampage when he zig-zagged down the seaside embankment of the Promenade des Anglais, destroying lives in his wake.

Trial opens in France over 2016 Nice truck massacre

New rape charge against Islamic scholar Ramadan 23.10.2020 Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has been hit by another charge of raping a woman, his lawyers in France said on Thursday, after four other similar accusations. A father of four whose grandfather founded Egypts Muslim Brotherhood, Ramadan was a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University until he was forced to take leave when rape allegations surfaced at the height of the "Me Too" movement in 2017. The latest charge rela...

The Latest: Congress Clears COVID Bill, Ivory Coast PM Dies, Trump Buddha Nepalese devotees celebrating the Maha Shivaratri Hindu festival in Kathmandu on March 11 - Narayan Maharjan/NurPhoto/ZUMA       2020-03-11 Welcome to Thursday, where the world marks 10 years since the Fukushima disaster, Ivory Coasts prime minister dies, and we meet one irate Paraguayan grandma. Le Monde reports on French terrorism victims who are now fac...

They were convicted of involuntary manslaughter and injuries Published:  February 17, 2021 16:36 AFP Madonna Image Credit: AP Marseille: A French court on Wednesday handed suspended prison sentences to four people charged over the collapse of a stage as it was being set up for a 2009 concert by pop superstar Madonna, which killed two workers. A judge in the southern city of Marseille, where the concert was to take place, convicted...

  It’s the end of the year and I should be bringing glad tidings and happy wishes for the Solstice. I should try to scrounge up some of the good that happened in 2020, to end on a positive note. First, I’m afraid, I have to get something off of my chest. When asked how being a woman affected my career (or lack of one), I used to quip that being short was worse. I now see I wasn’t being funny; I was being obtuse and I’ve been actively mulling this over while writing this memoir of mine....