Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah was buried in his hometown Toulouse on Thursday, despite a protest by the French city's mayor after the serial killer's homeland Algeria refused his corpse.

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Questions were mounting on Friday over how a known Islamic extremist managed to murder seven people, including three children, in three separate attacks before being killed in a firefight.

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The siege in southern France of a self-proclaimed Al-Qaeda militant blamed for a series of deadly shootings is coming to an end, a police source said on Thursday.

French shooting suspect dead, confir

A 23-year-old gunman who said al-Qaeda inspired him to kill seven people in France died in a hail of bullets on Thursday as he scrambled out of a ground-floor window during a gunbattle with elite poli

A gunman suspected of killing seven people in the name of al Qaeda, including three children at a Jewish school, said on Wednesday he would hand himself over to police to end an hours-long siege in so

A gunman who killed four people at a French Jewish school may have filmed the attack, the interior minister said on Tuesday, as hundreds of police combed southern France for the killer, suspected in t

French police stepped up the search on Tuesday for a gunman who filmed his carnage as he shot dead three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school, fearing the killer could strike again.

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Three people were killed and two seriously wounded on Monday when a gunman opened fire outside a Jewish school in southwestern France, prosecutors said.

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French police have located wanted and dangerous British paedophile twins Kenneth and Thomas Parker, who have apparently been living in France for years, a judicial source said on Friday.

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