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Turkish police begin a search at the residence of the Saudi consul to Istanbul, in the investigation into the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom's consulate in the city. A team of a dozen police and prosecutors, including forensics experts in white overalls, enter the residence of Mohammed al-Otaibi, a day after he flew out of Istanbul for Riyadh. IMAGES
In a show of support for a principal threatened with a knife by a student on Friday, the French Minister of National Education, Nicole Belloubet met with staff at the secondary school, before participating in a round table on school security at Chenove town hall, near Dijon, in eastern France. IMAGES
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak addresses the wrongful conviction of more than 700 people who ran post offices between 1999 and 2005, saying that the government will do "everything we can do make this right". The prosecutions for theft and false accounting have received new attention following a new television drama about one branch manager's fight for justice. The Post Office began installing Horizon IT software made by Fujitsu in the late 1990s, but flaws in its programming showed up deficits in branch accounts. Postal service executives, refusing to acknowledge problems with the software, forced workers to repay the shortfalls. Some were imprisoned or left out of pocket, while others failed to find other jobs and lost their homes. Speaking at an event in Lancashire, the prime minister says "it's simply wrong what happened" and that new efforts are being made to hurry pardons and compensation for those who have not yet received them. SOUNDBITE
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE
Following the acquittal of French Justice Minister, his lawyer speaks of a "great satisfaction and (...) a great emotion". A French court on Wednesday acquitted France's justice minister in a conflict of interest trial that has been an embarrassment for President Emmanuel Macron's government. Eric Dupond-Moretti, a pugnacious former star defence lawyer, had in 2021 been charged with misusing his position to settle scores with opponents from his legal career. SOUNDBITE
France's justice minister Eric Dupond-Moretti looks up to the skies as he walks out of Paris Courthouse after being acquitted in a conflict of interest trial that has been an embarrassment for President Emmanuel Macron's government. A pugnacious former star defence lawyer, Dupond-Moretti had been chargedin 2021 with misusing his position to settle scores with opponents from his legal career. IMAGES