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'Deeply regret not being able to deliver Brexit', Theresa May says a day ahead of stepping down as British PM
• 6 years agoTheresa May conducted her final public tour as British Prime Minister on Thursday, ahead of her resignation on Friday, with a visit to Normandy in France to mark the 75th anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings
Fire at bar in France's Rouen kills 13: Officials say candles on birthday cake sparked the blaze
• 9 years agoA fire apparently sparked by birthday cake candles tore through a bar in northern France early on Saturday, killing at least 13 people in the nation's deadliest blaze in a decade.
Fire at Au Cuba Libre bar in France kills 13: Candles on birthday cake could've caused blaze
• 9 years agoA fire has swept through a bar in northern France, killing at least 13 people and injuring six others
Muslims, Jews and Christians come together to mourn French priest killed by Islamic State
Fp Staff • 9 years agoMourners gathered inside and outside Rouen cathedral, Normandy, during the funeral mass for Father Jacques Hamel, the priest who was killed by IS.
France lays to rest Jacques Hamel, priest killed in Normandy church attack
• 9 years agoFrance paid its last respects Tuesday to Father Jacques Hamel, the 85-year-old priest murdered by jihadists last week, at an emotional funeral.
Normandy church attack: Teenage suspect released, two others remain in custody
• 9 years agoA teenager detained following the gruesome killing of an 85-year-old priest by a pair of jihadi attackers in northwest France was released on Saturday, a French official said
France church attack: 'They held me with a revolver to my neck,' reveals elderly hostage
• 9 years agoTwo attackers took five hostages Tuesday at the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in France and slit the throat of the priest saying morning Mass.
Pope Francis says 'world is at war' but it's not a war of religions
Dpanews • 9 years agoPope Francis said "the world is at war" on a flight to Poland on Wednesday to take part in the World Youth Day celebrations in the city of Krakow.
France church attack: Hollande, Valls try to ease religious tensions
• 9 years agoHollande gathered top religious leaders at his Elysee Palace offices, as a violence-weary France struggled to come to terms with the church attack.
France hostage crisis: Terrorists kill priest, pledge allegiance to Islamic State
Fp Staff • 9 years agoTwo attackers took hostages inside a French church during morning Mass on Tuesday near the city of Rouen, killing an 86-year-old priest by slitting his throat before being shot and killed by police.