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Days of unusually heavy rainfall across France, forecast to ease as of Wednesday, have left four dead in weather-related accidents and several people injured after a waterlogged embankment collapsed causing a Paris suburban train to tip over, while homes in parts of the north-east of the country were damaged by flooding.

Guide held in police custody and an investigation launched into possible manslaughter and unintentional harm after tragedy in Entraunes area.

Abdullah Dilsouz, a 15-year-old Afghan who had a legal right to enter the UK under family reunification legislation, was one of three asylum-seekers to be killed over recent weeks on the roads around the French port, as NGOs say migrants are taking increasing risks to cross the Channel amid worsening living conditions.

An autopsy has apparently revealed the mystery of how two men, one aged 69 and the other 38, were both found dead after sharing a meal in a garden belonging to one of them in north-west France, after it found that Olivier Boudin suffered a heart attack after seeing his close friend Lucien Pérot die when he was choked on a beef rib after the two had drunk a considerable amount of alcohol.

The dead were attending a housewarming party in the town in north-west France when the third-floor balcony, reportedly filled with 18 people at the moment of the accident, sheared off and crashed to the ground about nine metres below.

Two Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were killed and two French troops seriously wounded when a booby-trapped drone crashed to the ground near them north of the beseiged town of Mosul held by the Islamic State group group.

Libya's UN-recognised government demands explanation from Paris after deaths of three French troops near Benghazi showed a 'violation' of its sovereignty.

President Hollande confirmed four French deaths among the 18 people killed by gunmen in an attack claimed by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

Six other members of a group of about 50 troops were injured after an avalanche hit their skiing exercise at an altitude of more than 2,000 metres.

Up to 27 people are feared dead and 33 wounded after suspected Islamist gunmen attacked a hotel and bar in the West African state's capital.

After a man believed Syrian was hit by a car on a local motorway Thursday, another person died after being hit be a Channel Tunnel freight train.

Police said the bodies were at the foot of Vauban Fort on the French Channel island of Chausey, and suspected they had slipped while having sex. 

The two officers were accused of failing to help two boys who fled from them into a power substation near Paris in 2005, sparking weeks of riots.

A cross-country skier was the 28th person killed by avalanches in the French Alps this winter, while four Italians died on slopes in Switzerland.