In the face of rampant extremism, social democracy, it seems, has nothing to say, writes Fergus Finlay

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.

France has begun its third day of national mourning as tributes to victims of the Nice lorry attack grow and investigations into their killer continues.

Expatriates in Nice remained defiant in the face of terror in France, praising the area and saying they had no intention of leaving.

Muslims in France are angry that a mass killer’s actions are now claimed to have been in the name of Islam, and concerned that it will stoke a racist backlash, writes Jack Moore

French president, Francois Hollande, has extended the nine-month-old state of emergency. He has also vowed to deploy thousands of police reservists on the streets, after 84 pedestrians leaving a fireworks display were killed by a truck driven by a terrorist.

The Bastille day fireworks had just ended when a large white truck drove fast and deliberately at the crowd on the Nice waterfront.

The latest terrorist atrocity in France, where 84 people were killed on Thursday night during Bastille Day celebrations in the southern city of Nice, is the seventh deadly attack to be carried out against the country since the Charlie Hebdo killings of January 7, 2015, bringing the total death toll to 400. 

A number of Irish people were witness to the carnage in Nice. One of them, barman Robert Greene from Coolock in Dublin, was just a few metres away as he watched the truck driver plough through the crowds on the Promenade des Anglais.

A truck ploughed into Bastille Day celebrations in Nice last night, killing at least 60 and injuring more than 150.

A Northern Ireland fan has died in France, French police have said.

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A Russian politician and billionaire industrialist is in hospital with severe burns today after a sports car he was driving slammed into a tree and caught fire in the south of France.