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Six French tourists, along with their driver and guide, are reported to have been shot dead by unidentified gunmen on motorcycles in a suspected terrorist attack during a safari in Niger, which lies in a region of West Africa where Boko Haram and groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State operate.

Since January, three seals have been found dead on the Côte d'Opale, and an animal conservation group is offering reward for information. 

The Algerian justice minister claimed a militant involved in the September abduction of French tourist Hervé Gourdel was killed last month.

Camille Lepage, 26, who had spent months documenting the conflict in Central African Republic, died in a village near the town of Bouar.

The two soldiers, who were killed in the capital Bangui, are the first French deaths since President Hollande deployed 1,600 troops last week.

The bodies of the Radio France International reporters were found hours after they interviewed a local political leader in Kidal, northern Mali.

Shop owner in Nice in the south of France was under arrest after he shot and killed one of two armed robbers who raided his premises.

The Frenchman, who was on his honeymoon, died after the shark charged him twice in the water off a popular holiday resort.

Abou Zeid, who was a senior figure in al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), was killed during fighting in northern Mali at the end of February.

Olivier Voisin, who was seriously wounded in Syria last week, has died of his wounds after surgery in Turkey, the foreign ministry has confirmed.