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Bataclan survivors' tattoos show their pain and defiance

Since she was "buried" under the dead and dying at the Bataclan concert hall, Laura Leveque has "carried 130 corpses" on her shoulders. "So I may as well mark it," she said.

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Eight seriously injured in southern France train crash

A train crashed in southern France on Wednesday afternoon, leaving around 60 people injured, eight severely.

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'Pray for France': Catholics rally at Lourdes shrine

Around 25,000 Catholic pilgrims packed the French shrine of Lourdes on Monday for Assumption celebrations, held under tight security after several terror attacks, including the murder of a Catholic priest.

Terrorism

What we know so far about the Paris attackers

UPDATED: Here's what we know so far about the terrorists - now numbered at seven - all wearing suicide vests, who wrought unprecedented violence in six locations across Paris on Friday.

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New French trains 'too high' to get to Italy

First it was the calamity of the French trains too fat for platforms. Now French rail chiefs have been left embarrassed by a new fleet of regional trains that are too high to get through the tunnels into Italy.

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Nibbling rats blamed for French rail crash

Rats nibbling at signalling cables led to a crash between two passenger trains that injured 40 people in south-west France earlier this month, a new report has announced. And signal failure is not the only problem being blamed on rats this week.