Armed police have shot and killed a man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State, who had killed three people during a shooting spree in southern France.
A Catholic priest has died in an attack by two armed men on his church near Rouen in Normandy, northern France.
A gunman is reported to have taken a hostage at a kosher grocery shop in eastern Paris.
French police have a surrounded a building at an industrial estate in Dammartin-en-Goele, where the two gunmen from Wednesday’s attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdon are believed to have taken a hostage.
Two people are reported to have been killed and three more injured after police stormed the Sydney cafe where dozens of people had been held hostage for 16 hours.