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Two senior European intelligence officials said that the mastermind of the deadly Paris terror attacks last week, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was killed during massive pre-dawn raids in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on Wednesday, the Washington Post reported.
Police and media are seen near the area where a plane crashed in Russia's Tver region, almost 350 km from Moscow. According to Russian officials, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, was aboard the plane, and died in the crash together with nine other people. IMAGES
Riot police charge protestors during a demonstration of several thousand people in Paris in tribute to three Kurds killed and three others injured the day before near a Kurdish cultural centre in the french capital. IMAGES
German investigators raid a property belonging to a Russian oligarch suspected of tax evasion and breaking EU sanctions, with sources naming billionaire Alisher Usmanov as the target. Around 250 officers were involved in the raids, with the alleged tax evasion amounting to 550 million euros ($545 million), according to a report in Der Spiegel magazine. IMAGES of police outside of a raided property of a Russian oligarch in Tegernsee, Germany
A re-enactment is taking place on the Pont-Neuf in Paris where two men in a car were shot dead on 24 April by a police officer armed with an assault rifle during a traffic stop. IMAGES
Images show police officers outside of a public services office in Moscow where two people were killed and four were injured when a gunman opened fire inside the building. The Russian interior ministry said the attacker was a 45-year-old Moscow resident and that he had been taken to a police station. IMAGES