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Added on the 31/03/2023 15:00:00 - Copyright : France 24 EN
The verdict hearing for four of the defendants begins in the trial over one of West Africa's bloodiest jihadist attacks -- a 2016 machine-gun assault on the Ivorian beach resort of Grand-Bassam that killed 19. The verdict is expected on Thursday. IMAGES
Israeli police officers and military secure the site where three people where killed in what police described as a shooting attack near the Allenby Crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan. The deadly shooting at the Allenby Bridge Crossing, also known as King Hussein Crossing, comes amid surging violence in the West Bank, with major Israeli military raids and attacks by Palestinians. IMAGES
An Al-Shabaab suicide bomber and gunmen attacked a busy beach in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, killing at least 32 people and wounding scores more, police say. The attack is one of the deadliest strikes in the East African country in months. IMAGES
Druze elders, who follow an offshoot of Shiite Islam, gather during the funeral of a person killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, that Israeli authorities say killed 12 people including children in the Druze town of Majdal Shams, in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights. IMAGES
French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti meets with prison guards' unions the day after two prison officers were killed in an attack on a prison van at a toll booth in Normandy. The unions are calling for "a drastic reduction in prison transport by promoting the use of videoconferencing by judges or their travel to prisons." IMAGES
Police and crime scene investigators attend the scene in east London after a sword-wielding man wielding stabbed a 14-year-old boy, who died in hospital. Two police and two other people were also stabbed in the street attack in the Hainault district, with the man using what appeared to be a Samurai-type sword shortly before 7:00 am (0600 GMT). IMAGES