Nice attack

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Feb 14, 2019, 17:36 PM IST

Tribunal confirms French resort`s burkini ban

The Nice tribunal rejected an appeal by two human rights groups, ruling that the ban in Villeneuve-Loubet was "necessary, appropriate and proportionate" to prevent public disorder after a succession of jihadists attacks in France.

Aug 23, 2016, 00:35 AM IST

Death toll in Nice truck attack rises to 86

The latest victim leaves behind a wife and two children, the department in charge of assisting victims of attacks said.

Aug 19, 2016, 23:18 PM IST

Man wounded in Nice attack dies, taking toll to 85

A man wounded in the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice has died of his injuries.

Aug 05, 2016, 06:20 AM IST

Summer festivities across France cancelled after Nice attack

France has been thrown into summer doldrums as authorities cancel fireworks and other festive events of the season because of security fears following the July 14 truck massacre in Nice.

Aug 02, 2016, 21:51 PM IST

Church attacker threatened France in new video

A jihadist involved in the brutal killing of an elderly priest pledged to attack France in a newly released video, as Catholic bishops called for a day of prayer in a nation shaken by the latest assault.

Jul 29, 2016, 09:25 AM IST

French media pull photos of attackers over glorification fears

France's Le Monde daily said on Wednesday it would no longer publish photographs of killers responsible for terror attacks to avoid giving them "posthumous glorification".

Jul 27, 2016, 19:11 PM IST

Two more arrested over links with Nice attacker

At least two more people were arrested in France over their presumed links with the Bastille Day massacre in Nice which left 84 people dead, the media reported on Tuesday.

Jul 26, 2016, 19:11 PM IST

Bastille Day killer had help preparing Nice attack, says Paris prosecutor

The Tunisian man who killed 84 people on the French Riviera by ploughing his truck into Bastille Day crowds had been planning the attack for months with the help of at least five accomplices, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday.

Jul 21, 2016, 23:16 PM IST

Three French soldiers killed in Libya: Defence Ministry

Three French soldiers have been killed in Libya, the defence ministry confirmed Wednesday, in the first official confirmation that France has troops in the country.

Jul 20, 2016, 14:44 PM IST

Some 38 of 84 killed in Nice truck attack were foreigners: Ministry

Some 38 of the 84 people killed on the seafront in Nice by a truck-driving man as they celebrated Bastille Day on July 14 were foreigners, the French foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

Jul 20, 2016, 09:46 AM IST

No signs truck attacker linked to extremist network: France

France's interior minister says investigators have no evidence so far that the truck driver who killed 84 people in Nice had links to "terrorist networks."

Jul 18, 2016, 20:01 PM IST

British PM Theresa May to visit Berlin, Paris in first foreign trip

"Theresa May will visit Berlin on Wednesday in her first foreign visit as Britain`s new prime minister", Downing Street said, for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel on the UK`s preparations to lea

Jul 18, 2016, 15:25 PM IST

Who were the Nice attack victims?

Victims of the Nice truck attack included three generations of a family out for a stroll, a Frenchman protecting his pregnant wife and a former Soviet soldier.

Jul 18, 2016, 11:16 AM IST

Wounded fight for life in Nice as killer's brother tells of pre-attack call

Nice (France) The man who mowed through a crowd with a truck, killing 84 Bastille Day revellers in Nice on Thursday, had phoned home hours earlier and sent a `laughing` picture from the French city

Jul 18, 2016, 00:20 AM IST

Two more arrested by French authorities over Nice attack

French authorities on Sunday arrested a man and a woman in connection with the Bastille Day lorry attack in Nice that killed 84 persons, CNN quoted a prosecutor as saying.

Jul 17, 2016, 15:00 PM IST

French PM Manuel Valls says clear that Nice truck driver was radicalised quickly

The man behind the truck attack that killed at least 84 people celebrating Bastille Day in the French city of Nice had recently been radicalised, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said in remarks published on Sunday.

Jul 17, 2016, 10:06 AM IST

France attacker had least interest in Islam, showed no jihadist links

The man responsible for turning a night of celebration into one of carnage in the seaside city of Nice was a petty criminal who hadn't been on the radar of French intelligence services before the attack.

Jul 16, 2016, 18:20 PM IST

Nice truck attacker likely `radicalised very quickly`: French Interior Minister

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Saturday that the man responsible for the attack in Nice in which 84 people died seemed to have been "radicalised very quickly".

Jul 16, 2016, 18:02 PM IST