Demonstrations began over the cost of living crisis, education standards and President Emmanuel Macron's government, with most gatherings largely peaceful. But they quickly devolved into anarchy over the weekend, with footage showing black-clad men driving away on the vehicles and mask-wearing looters lugging large boxes of electronics.

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Australian MP fighting for life after being hit by a car outside her office - as shaken PM confirms she was 'attacked' and counter terror units investigating

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An image of an elderly couple who were reportedly stripped and robbed during the latest riots that have plagued France has been flagged as being made or edited by AI. (Preview image is AI)

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Storm Adam claimed the life of a second woman in Spain as the army is mobilised to help Ibiza and Majorca get back on its feet following weekend devastation.

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Russian ballistic missiles targeted energy facilities in the Ukrainian capital overnight, killing one person and injuring two more.

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The Austrian Airlines Airbus A320, which was headed to Vienna, made the emergency stopover Sofia after what the airline confirmed was a 'threat' made against the flight.

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The US President also denied responsibility for the disruption to Kyiv's access to the vital Starlink satellite communications system, leaving the country exposed to attack.

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GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: The disturbing video shows an enormous cross striking the priest directly in the head. Parishioners could be heard screaming 'Padre!' in the moments after.

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Rioters are crushed by falling panes of glass while trying to loot shops and another has his hand blown off trying to pick up police stun grenade

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Ukraine carries out first ever drone evacuation of a wounded soldier from the frontline

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The tech billionaire and SpaceX founder publicly blamed the US president for the chaos over the decision to restrict Kyiv's access to the satellite system, which has since been restored.

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Every generation or so the course of French democracy is determined on the streets. Be in no doubt that just happened again at the weekend

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Mohammed bin Salman is now sheltering in heavily guarded palaces equipped with bunkers as Houthi rebels bombard Riyadh, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Inside whites-only South African enclave where anyone with a criminal record is banned - as residents deny being racist and say 'streets are safe at night'

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The 'biological Chernobyl' lab leak that Russia covered up as 'food poisoning': How dozens died frothing at the mouth after anthrax blunder at bioweapons unit

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Questions are being raised over whether executing convicted murderers outweighs the risks of of an execution going so badly that a prisoner is left to die in agony.

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Inside 'cursed' sex-filled Dutch movie so explicit it lay on the cutting room floor for decades with star killing himself days after filming ended - as it's finally released in cinemas

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'Swedish Piddington' that BANNED migrants for 13 years: In 1988, Sjobo shocked Europe with a controversial referendum. Nearly 40 years later, many wish the ban they voted for was never lifted

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Harrowing never-before-seen footage shows the moment Norwegian mountaineering star Kristin Harila's team faced the agonising choice.

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Inside Indonesia's brutal mass female circumcision ceremonies, where toddlers have genitals mutilated with knives

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Executed with a bullet to head for 'adultery': The Taliban execution that horrified Afghanistan... and terrifying signs such brutality is set to return

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Florin Marin, from Romania, was left a £2,000-a-month pension and £150,000 after his partner, former vicar Philip Clements, died aged 81 during the Covid pandemic.

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Story behind the Taliban's most infamous execution: Mother-of-seven shot in the head in front of 30,000 spectators baying for blood after she poisoned her abusive husband

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The incredible transformation of Mia Schem: Young Israeli is now a stunning model after going through Hell as an October 7 hostage

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WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: It seemed like an ordinary day for 16-year-old Hannah - instead it marked the start of a months-long nightmare.

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The images that shocked the world: How Taliban's medieval barbarity was exposed by video showing a woman stoned to death for adultery

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'I wanted to die': Husband and wife kidnapped on October 7 reveal hell they endured in Gaza - from seeing girls 'beaten to pieces' and sexually assaulted to being starved and tortured

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A man who was raised by wolves in rural Spain has died at the age of 80.

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Locked up like an animal in cage...forced to witness rape and slaughter...tortured until they prayed for death: October 7 hostages' most horrifying accounts yet of what they endured at the hands of Hamas

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Heartbreaking final moments of 'Sleeping Beauty of Everest' who begged climber 'don't leave me here to die' before her body froze in time in mountain 'death zone'

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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Ainhoa Caballero Medina has requested to be euthanised in Spain after she says an attempted murder by her ex-boyfriend.

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The women raped by the Taliban: Victims describe horrific sexual abuse at the hands of multiple men as punishment for getting a job or posting on social media

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Inside South Africa's whites-only enclave where young people are flocking after deciding 'it's not so wonderful elsewhere' and it's nicer to be 'the majority'

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The underground movement has emerged from the shadows under the public representation of Igor Volobuev, a former banking executive who defected to Ukraine.

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How Iran's ruthless enforcers use rape to crush dissent: Brutal sex attacks on victims as young as 12 used to strike fear into protesters, rights groups reveal

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Stripped, electrocuted and forced to fight each other to the death on camera: New evidence shows how Putin's commanders are torturing their own men

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In the summer of 1974, an all-women group of eight climbers set off to scale one of the Soviet Union's highest peaks - only for them all to perish in a -40C blizzard.

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Inside Putin's horrific torture gulags where inmates are gassed in 'elephant masks', used as 'human furniture' and forced to endure 'Putin's phone'

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Secrets of Kim Jong Un's sexual 'Pleasure Squad': Women and girls hand-picked to 'satisfy' North Korean leaders so a young virgin's life force can be absorbed during sex

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Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) frontman Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, 59, was eliminated on Sunday in a joint Mexican military and US-backed operation in Tapalpa.

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How animals have been used for espionage from Hvaldimir the roving Russian whale to American 'bat bombs' and a 'spy squirrel' unit caught behind enemy lines

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Sadistic human experiments inside Japan's notorious WW2 Unit 731 where PoWs were infected with plague, raped and buried alive are brought to life in ultra-violent Chinese movie

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Over the span of 41 days, the high school student was abducted by four teenage boys aged between 16 to 18, subjected to unimaginable abuse, repeatedly raped and ultimately murdered.

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The girl who gave birth aged FIVE: Incredible mystery of the child who became the world's youngest ever mother

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Sun, sea and smugglers: The scourge of narco gangs delivering drug shipments on Spain's tourist beaches in full view of holidaying families

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The shocking scene was captured in a picture titled The Vulture and the Little Girl - although the child was later revealed to be a young boy - by South African photographer Kevin Carter in 1993.

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How AK-47-wielding ISIS fanatics turned Bataclan theatre into a 'slaughter house' as Paris marks 10-year anniversary of massacre that left 90 dead and shocked the world

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The Christian who threw himself to the lions - and somehow survived: Moment man who believed he was Biblical character Daniel is mauled while trying to 'convert' big cats in their zoo enclosure

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Deep inside Russia 's military machine, the tyrant is quietly assembling an arsenal designed not to win a war in Europe, but to decimate whole nations at the push of a button.

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Inside the whites-only town where new arrivals are strictly vetted and residents deny being racist

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Inside China's execution conveyor belt: How 'mobile injection vans and firing squads are used to put thousands to death a year' - outstripping capital punishment figures for the rest of the world combined

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Local police have often explained the deaths as accidents or suicides, but many cases appear suspicious to family members of the deceased, and are often left insufficiently investigated.

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The bloodthirsty gangs ravaging Brit backpacking mecca including 'Los Killers' cartel led by mass murderer and his glamorous girlfriend - as three women are tortured to death on live-stream

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The bloodthirsty terror tactics of Mexico's cartels: How ruthless drug gangs punish their enemies and spread fear from mass beheadings to CANNIBALISM - after nine students were found with hands hacked off

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The coastal nation has seen murder rates soar in recent years as drug lords and criminal masterminds dug their hooks into fresh territory and exploited its ports for maximum profit

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Putin's secret space weapon: Kremlin's mysterious Cosmos 2553 satellite 'is fitted with dummy warhead' in 'forerunner to nuke that could wipe out rival spacecraft and cause chaos on Earth'

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People who have come back from the dead... and what they say is waiting for us on the other side

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The melting of Arctic ice opens up a massive new frontier, unlocking a treasure trove of previously untapped natural resources, new trade routes, and strategic superiority

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How a baseless internet rumour has forced Brigitte Macron to prove she is a woman in a US court: Astonishing full story that led to French president's wife facing Candace Owens

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The humbling of Macron: From getting slapped by his wife, and egged by the public to dwarf comparisons and a snub by Trump - all the times the French president was brought back down to earth

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Brits Abroad has long been shorthand for chaos, from nightclub beatdowns and brawls over sun loungers to rape and murder charges at tourist hotspots around the world.

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Un-believable! The Western influencers making a living by telling the world how wonderful North Korea is (maybe someone should tell them Kim Jong Un executes people who try to leave)

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Majorca counts the cost of rejecting tourists: Restaurants and bars say their season has been devastated after UK families took their cash elsewhere in wake of anti-tourist protests

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The lifeless body of Alan Kurdi, a two-year-old Syrian boy, was found washed up on a beach near the Turkish resort of Bodrum, his red T-shirt and blue shorts soaked in seawater.

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'Women are not safe anywhere': Inside 'rape fantasy' chat rooms where men expose footage of family members - even their own sisters or mothers - to equally perverted strangers

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Inside horrifying paedophile sect run by one-eyed Nazi colonel in German-style Chilean village where children were tortured and abused... and which is now a tourist hotspot

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From 1911 to 1929, dozens of women across Nagyrev and the Tiszazug region turned to homemade arsenic poison to get rid of husbands, parents, lovers, and even children.

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