The have-a-go hero French motorcyclist who tried to stop the truck massacre in Nice last week has revealed he was “ready to die” as he punched the driver while clinging to the door of the speeding vehicle.

France has marked a national moment of silence in memory of the 84 people killed in the Nice truck attack, as thousands of people massed on the city's waterfront promenade.

Investigators have found no evidence so far that the truck driver who killed 84 people in Nice had links to "terrorist networks", France's interior minister has said.

France's intelligence chief believes Islamist extremists like those who carried out two waves of attacks in Paris last year will look to use booby-trapped cars in the future.

A man who stabbed a police commander and police administrator to death at their home in a Paris suburb pledged loyalty to the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group and had a list of other targets, including rappers, journalists, police officers, and public officials, the Paris prosecutor said.

A man with a past terrorist conviction shot video footage during a fatal knife attack on two police officers outside Paris, according to French officials.

A Frenchman has been arrested in the “advanced stages” of a plot to attack the country.

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France says it will not wait for a change in EU rules to subject every European citizen to deep checks when they enter the Schengen travel-free zone.

The European Union has agreed to "considerably strengthen" means for the 28 nations to co-operate to combat violent extremism, officials said.

A gunman who attacked passengers on a high-speed train in France two days ago is “dumbfounded” at having been taken for an Islamist militant and says he only intended to rob people on board because he was hungry, his lawyer said.

The man who boarded a high-speed Amsterdam-to-Paris train with a Kalashnikov rifle before being tackled by passengers had ties to radical Islam and may have travelled to Syria.

A decapitated body daubed with Arabic writing was left at a US-owned factory in south-east France after an assailant rammed a delivery van into gas containers at the site, triggering an explosion.

An attacker with suspected ties to French Islamic radicals has rammed a car into a gas factory in France, and the severed head of a local businessman was hung from a post at the entrance, officials said.

The first man arrested over today’s attack in France was known to intelligence services for possible ties to Islamic extremists but had no arrest record, interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said.

France supports a plan to distribute asylum-seekers among European countries by quota, the country’s top security official has said, saying the current system puts an unfair burden on a handful of nations.

An Islamic extremist with an arsenal of heavy weapons planned an imminent attack on one or more French churches, France’s top security official said, announcing the arrest of the man who is also accused in the death of a young woman.

Three soldiers on an anti-terror patrol in the southern French city of Nice were attacked by a man with a knife, police said.

Around a million people and more than 40 world leaders - including the Taoiseach Enda Kenny - are expected to take part in a rally in Paris, after 3 days of terror, that left 17 people dead.

The dead brothers believed to have massacred 12 people in Paris were poverty-stricken orphans set on the path to terrorism by a radical preacher.

A policewoman shot near Paris has reportedly died after a second attack on police in the French capital in consecutive days.

A French citizen has been kidnapped by suspected Islamic militants while hiking in a mountainous Algerian region that is a known hideout for North Africa’s al Qaida branch.