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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
Elected representatives from France's Les Républicains party and the general public gather around the mayor of L'Haÿ-les-Roses, a day after his home and family were targeted in a violent attack, with a car used as a battering ram, in riots following the death of a young man during a police check. IMAGES
French MPs held a minute's silence in tribute to the teenager whose death at point-blank range by police in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday sparked violent protests. IMAGES
Visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appeals for "massive" international support for Somalia as it battles a devastating drought and a grinding Islamist insurgency. SOUNDBITE
"Our determination has not changed, and we are ready to maintain this effort for the long term" says French president Emmanuel Macron in a video address to participants in the Crimea Platform conference in Kyiv. (COMPLETES VIDI32GY6DA_EN AND VIDI32GY4ZY_EN) SOUNDBITE
Several roads are blocked by gendarmes in the French town of Douvres, as a man is shot by French tactical units after killing a family of five, including three children. IMAGES