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Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

A court in France will decide today whether to overturn the ban on women wearing a burkini.

Three terror attacks since January 2015 have tested France’s spirit. With high gun ownership and an isolated immigrant community, the country is on tenterhooks, says Jonathan Miller

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.

France has held a minute's silence as they remember the victims of last week's attack in Nice.

Described by his neighbours as a handsome but frightening man, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who killed at least 84 people in the French city of Nice by driving his truck into a crowd late on Thursday, was convicted only once before: for road rage.

Thousands of dock workers poured into a public square in the French port city of Le Havre, setting off smoke bombs as part of escalating nationwide protests against a labour bill that undermines worker protection.

France started air strikes in Syria last year because of concerns months before the Paris attacks that the ringleader was plotting to target a concert and take hostages, a French newspaper has reported.

Supporters of a major free trade deal aimed at boosting trade in goods and services between the US and EU find themselves on the defensive following another big leak of secret documents.

It’s easy to get cynical about those Parisian all-nighters with their high ideals and revolutionary slogans but maybe, just maybe, it’s time to think about setting up a nocturnal movement here, writes Clodagh Finn

Jerome Cahuzac was the face of France’s fight against tax evaders — until he was forced to acknowledge that he himself was dodging taxes, hiding money in tax havens around the world.

Several thousand people have marched in French cities to protest against a state of emergency introduced after November’s attacks in Paris and a proposed nationality-stripping law that led France’s justice minister to quit last week.

One of France’s charismatic ministers has unexpectedly resigned after objecting to President Francois Hollande’s push to revoke citizenship from convicted terrorists with dual nationality.

France is still “the place of freedom” despite the terror attacks on Paris this time last year and the subsequent massacre in the city last November, the French Ambassador to Ireland has said.

The Vatican newspaper has criticised French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo for depicting God as a Kalashnikov-carrying killer, saying it was “woeful” and disrespectful to true believers of all faiths.

France’s far right National Front has won more support than any other party in the first round of regional elections, according to polling agency projections.

It is the Western powers’ strategy of training, funding, and arming ‘moderate’ jihadists to fight against the ‘radicals’ that is now backfiring with deadly consequences, writes Brahma Chellaney

Paris was under siege and France was shutting its borders last night after a series of explosions and deadly shootings claimed the lives of up to 60 people, causing mayhem and panic throughout the French capital.

Church bells tolled and officials laid wreaths across Europe on Armistice Day to pay tribute to the millions of soldiers killed during World War I.

Flash flooding around the French Riviera has killed at least 16 people, including some trapped in cars, a campsite and a retirement home.

Six French fighter jets have targeted and destroyed a training camp run by the so-called 'Islamic State' group in eastern Syria, President Francois Hollande has confirmed.

France’s far-right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen is expected to dominate in the first round of local elections in the northern region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais in December, mustering around 40% support, according to a poll published yesterday.

France’s president says the country will send reconnaissance planes over Syria to help in the fight against the Islamic State group.

The French President Francois Hollande will visit Ireland next year.

Security measures around the Channel Tunnel are to be stepped up after Britain and France agreed a package including extra private security guards, French police reinforcements, additional fences and more CCTV surveillance.

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.

An Indonesian court rejected a French national’s last-ditch appeal against the death sentence, making him the latest foreigner to face execution for drug offences and prompting a message of support for the prisoner from France.

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has reinforced his diplomatic offensive to try to convince European creditors to pay out the bailout loans the country needs to avoid default.

With quiet moments of memory or military pomp, leaders and citizens across Europe marked 70 years since the Nazi defeat and the end of a war that ravaged the continent. However, the East-West alliance that vanquished Hitler is deeply divided today.