by Adam Plowright, Katell Prigent and Joshua Melvin Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — A known terror suspect shot dead a French policeman and wounded two others Thursday on Paris’s Champs Elysees in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group days before a presidential election. Observers had long feared bloodshed ahead of Sunday’s vote in France following a string of atrocities since 2015 and the violence is likely to thrust security to the front of voters’ […]
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One officer killed, one wounded in Champs Elysees shooting: police
PARIS, France (AFP) — One police officer was killed and another wounded Thursday in a shooting on Paris’s Champs Elysees, police said, just days ahead of France’s presidential election. France’s interior ministry said the attacker was killed in the incident in the early evening on the world-famous boulevard. The famous shopping street in the heart of the city, which is usually teeming with tourists and Parisians, was blocked by armed police and metro stations in […]
Ex-South Carolina police officer’s murder trial goes to jury
SOUTH CAROLINA, Unite States (Reuters) — Defense attorneys urged a South Carolina jury on Wednesday (November 30) to look beyond a shocking video of a white police officer shooting a fleeing black motorist to death last year and consider all the evidence presented at the former policeman’s murder trial. Lawyers were making their closing arguments to jurors who will decide whether Michael Slager, 35, committed a crime when he killed 50-year-old Walter Scott in […]





