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India’s Modi heads for France to renew ties, preside over Bastille Day parade

Indian soldiers are in France ahead of the Bastille Day celebrations as India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares to preside over the national celebration in Paris and open a new chapter in bilateral ties.

Radio France Internationale

Arms, not democratic values, on parade as Macron hosts India’s Modi on Bastille Day

French President Emmanuel Macron rolls out the red carpet for Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the Indian leader picked as guest of honour at this year’s July 14 Bastille Day military parade. But critics warn that by overlooking rights violations and democratic backsliding under Modi’s reign, France is sending the…

France 24

Modi gets a Bastille Day red carpet, but China can rain on the geostrategic parade

India’s promise as a counterweight to China in the Indo-Pacific led French President Emmanuel Macron to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi as guest of honour at the July 14 Bastille Day military parade. But does India have the will and means to deliver?

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Visit to France will provide new impetus to strategic partnership: PM Modi

PM Narendra Modi said his visit to France was particularly special as he will join President Macron for the French National Day, or Bastille Day celebrations in Paris as the Guest of Honour.

The Hindu

Big-ticket defence deals likely during PM Modi’s Paris visit

PM Modi and President Macron. to discuss strategic convergences, defence deals, civil nuclear issues, space, cyber security, counter terrorism, climate change, renewable energy, and the international solar alliance. PM Modi to attend Bastille Day military parade, meet French PM, President of Senate, President of National Assembly.

The Hindu

Bastille Day: Europe's oldest and largest military parade

PM Narendra Modi will be in France on July 13-14 to attend Bastille Day celebrations and parade as the guest of honour.

The Times of India

Liberté, égalité ... and butter: celebrating Bastille Day in Canberra

Does the idea of eating snails put you off? Just think of them as garlicky, buttery dumplings.

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Mega defence deals expected during PM Modi’s trip to France

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will land in France on July 13 and will be guest of honour at the nation’s Bastille Day celebrations on July 14. It will be PM Modi’s fifth trip to France.

The Times of India

French government bans fireworks for Bastille Day after days of violent riots

France has banned the sale, possession and transport of fireworks ahead of Bastille Day on July 14, in response to the violent riots held nationwide last month over the death of Nahel Merzouk

Daily Mirror

French policing called into question again after brutal arrest at peaceful march

Youssouf Traoré in hospital after being tackled to ground at rally in memory of his brother, as government bans fireworks for Bastille Day

The Guardian - UK

Indian marching contingents, Rafale jets to take part in French Bastille Day parade

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted the invitation from French President Emmanuel Macron to be the Guest of Honour at the Bastille Day Parade.

The Hindu

Horror of Nice truck rampage that killed 86 recalled as 8 people convicted 6 years on

A French judge has sentenced eight defendants to prison terms ranging from two to 18 years after three-and-a-half months of heart-wrenching testimony from survivors of the Nice terror attacks - which saw driver Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel smash his truck into a crowd of people watching fireworks on Bastille Day in 2016,…

Daily Mirror

8 in France are convicted of their roles in a Bastille Day truck attack that killed 86

A French court convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice.

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8 in France convicted of roles in Bastille Day truck attack

A French court has convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice

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Eight found guilty in Bastille Day terror attack trial

Chokri Chafroud and Mohamed Ghraieb among eight convicted of links to terrorist who drove truck into Nice crowds, killing 86

The Independent UK

France's ex-president: Bastille Day attack was "terror act"

Former French President François Hollande has told a special terrorism court in Paris that the man who drove a truck into a crowded boardwalk in Nice on Bastille Day six years ago was responsible for “a terrorist act.”

Radio France Internationale

Survivors of Nice terror attack try to put words on the unspeakable

This week, the Nice terror trial has started hearing the testimonies of the civil plaintiffs, those who were bereaved or injured or traumatised when Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a truck into the crowd celebrating Bastille Day in 2016, killing 86 people, injuring hundreds of others.

France 24

Suspects on trial for Bastille Day truck attack in Nice deny terrorist ties

The defendants on trial for the 2016 Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that killed 86 people denied any links to terrorism and told the court Tuesday that they had been trapped or fooled by the driver at fault for the massacre.

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The Independent UK

Suspects in Bastille Day attack trial deny terrorist ties

The defendants on trial for the 2016 Bastille Day truck attack in southern France that killed 86 people are denying any links to terrorism

Radio France Internationale

Nice terror trial: no killer, no accomplices, few bereaved families

The man who drove a truck into the crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice in 2016, killing 86 people, injuring hundreds of others, is himself dead, shot by security forces at the scene. The eight accused in this trial are suspected of relatively low levels of complicity. Few bereaved families…

ABC News

Trial of those who allegedly aided the 2016 Bastille Day attack that killed 86 with a truck begins in Paris terrorism court

Six years after a truck drove into a celebrating crowd on France's national holiday, Bastille Day, the trial of those who allegedly assisted begins in the Paris terrorism court.

The Independent UK

Nice Bastille Day attack trial begins in Paris terror court

Eight people are going on trial in a special terrorism court in Paris

Reuters

Eight go on trial over 2016 Bastille Day truck attack in Nice

Seven men and one woman went on trial on Monday over a deadly 2016 truck rampage in the French city of Nice, accused of helping the driver who killed 86 people, including 15 children and teenagers, who had gathered to watch a fireworks display.

Reuters

Eight go on trial over 2016 Bastille Day truck attack in Nice

Seven men and one woman will go on trial on Monday over the 2016 Bastille Day attack in the French city of Nice, in which 86 people were killed and hundreds injured by a gunman who drove a heavy truck into a crowd gathered to watch fireworks.

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French Prosecutor Warns of Elevated Terror Attack Threat

There is an elevated threat of terror attacks on French soil by extremists coming from Iraq and Syria, France's national anti-terrorism prosecutor warned Friday. Jean-Francois Ricard said in an interview on French news broadcaster BFM TV that terrorist acts carried out “by individuals coming from areas where terrorists are operating,…

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