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French PM says Nice Truck driver was radicalised quickly
![Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel.](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/1/r/a/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq7o24.png/1468758697319.jpg)
Police arrested a man and a woman in the French city of Nice on Sunday morning in connection with the truck attack that killed at least 84 people celebrating Bastille Day, a judiciary source said.
'The whole night felt like doomsday'
![Soldiers involved in the coup surrender on the Bosphorus bridge.](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/9/e/7/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq7nv0.png/1468750100121.jpg)
As dawn broke on Saturday, the citizens of Turkey emerged sleep-deprived and angst-ridden after a night of violence that felt more like life in war-stricken neighbors like Syria or Iraq.
Qandeel Baloch's brother admits to 'honour killing' of Pakistani social media star sister
![Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch was allegedly murdered by her brother in an honour killing.](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/e/t/g/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq7pa0.png/1468750047328.jpg)
The brother of Qandeel Baloch, whose risqué social media posts both titillated and appalled conservative Pakistan, on Sunday admitted to strangling her in a crime that reignited debate about so-called "honour killings" in the South Asian nation.
Earthquake hits Tokyo and eastern Japan
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 struck eastern Japan on Sunday and shook buildings in Tokyo, officials and witnesses said, but there was no danger of a tsunami and no immediate report of injuries or major damage.
Brazil beefs up Olympic security after Nice attack
![Preparations for the Rio Olympics have been trouble.](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/6/b/v/n/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq7jjm.png/1468730915140.jpg)
Brazil is revising its security for next month's Summer Olympic Games in the wake of the attack in Nice, France, that killed 84 people, officials said as they carried out the latest in a series of counterterrorism exercises.
Trump-Pence logo changed after widespread ridicule
![Indiana Govenor Mike Pence joins Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/1/4/7/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq7guz.png/1468734080913.jpg)
Trump-Pence design scrapped after internet suggested it was too...suggestive.
A bridge falls short, like other Russia-China ties
![The Kimkano-Sutarsky Mine, which holds vast ore reserves and pushed for a bridge over the Amur River, in the Jewish ...](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/h/t/k/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq7ht0.png/1468727443462.jpg)
Trumpeted for the past decade as an emblem of Russia's destiny as an Asian as well as a European power, the huge steel bridge thrusts out from the Chinese side of the Amur River, stretching more than a mile across the turbid waters that divide the world's most populous nation from its biggest.
Thai sex industry under fire from tourism minister, police
![A motorcyclist rides past a group of young women hanging out near the Lumpini park in Bangkok.](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/e/f/e/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq7eeo.png/1468724464094.jpg)
Thailand's infamous sex industry is under fire, with the tourism minister pushing to rid the country of its ubiquitous brothels and a spate of police raids in recent weeks on some of the largest establishments providing sex services in Bangkok.
Qandeel Baloch knew her critics would 'keep on hating'
![Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch was allegedly killed by her brother in an "honour killing".](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/b/s/8/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq7dw4.png/1468747872883.jpg)
She was a social media star known as Pakistan's Kim Kardashian but model and singer Qandeel Baloch used her fame for more than just self promotion.
Nice attack bolsters anti-immigrant movements in Europe
![Marine Le Pen, leader of the French Front National, FN.](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/e/e/d/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq7eas.png/1468722791708.jpg)
The devastating attack in Nice, carried out by a Tunisian man living in France, came at a moment of political ferment in Europe and seems likely to give even more fuel to anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim movements that are challenging established parties across the region.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's message for Barack Obama
![Turkey's prime minister says a group within Turkey's military has engaged in what appeared to be an attempted coup.](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/l/u/e/t/c/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq71i0.png/1468722788709.jpg)
Istanbul's international airport has reopened with Turkish Airlines resuming flights on Saturday following a failed coup attempt.
World leaders unite to condemn failed Turkey coup
![A portrait of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a billboard in Ankara.](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/d/j/m/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq7de8.png/1468738736542.jpg)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has led a chorus of international leaders in condemning the attempted military coup in Turkey on Friday night.
Through the keyhole – inside the Nice attacker's apartment
![Through the keyhole of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's Nice apartment.](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/c/f/7/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq7cv8.png/1468742473036.jpg)
Nice: When Jasmine woke up the morning after the horrific Bastille Day attack she thought the commotion upstairs was an early Friday morning party or festivity because the men were wearing masks and
From idealism to disillusionment: how the profile of Islamist attackers is changing
![The aftermath of the Nice truck attack on the Promenade des Anglais.](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/1/6/4/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq7del.png/1468754616217.jpg)
Analysts say the Nice attack signals a shift in the profile of those launching attacks in the name of hardline Islamist groups.
Who is Gulen and why is Erdogan obsessed with him?
![Turkish Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania in 2014.](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/7/0/s/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq76m7.png/1468715310748.jpg)
Who is is the self-exiled and hermit-like US resident who pulls the strings of a movement blamed by Turkey's president for an attempted coup?
At least 20 people drown and 366 rescued from boats in Mediterranean
![Imad Ibrahim left Sudan on foot last year. He made the perilous journey by boat to Italy last month. Imad says that en ...](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/d/8/h/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq7d83.png/1468682535670.jpg)
At least 20 people drowned and more than 350 were rescued from rickety boats as they tried to cross the Mediterranean on Friday.
French police make arrests as IS 'claims responsibility' for Nice attack
![Authorities investigate a truck after it ploughed through Bastille Day revellers in the French resort city of Nice on ...](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/1/6/3/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq79fa.png/1468684127672.jpg)
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the truck attack in Nice that left 84 people dead, as French police made five arrests in connection with the incident.
'We are a freedom-loving people.' Melbourne's Turks rocked.
![Members of Melbourne's Turkish community meet outside Broadmeadows Library in Melbourne, in support of Turkey's ...](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/7/6/p/j/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq77x6.png/1468678783674.jpg)
Melbourne's Turkish community has been rocked by the attempted coup against the Erdogan government, with hundreds gathering on Saturday in a show of strength.
Orlando gunman Omar Mateen likely a long-term steroid user, autopsy shows
![US-born Omar Mateen shot dead 49 people before being killed by police.](/web/20160717150513im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/i/a/5/f/image.related.landscape.120x80.gq77nn.png/1468678732700.jpg)
The autopsy of the gunman who massacred 49 people in a Florida nightclub attack revealed he was HIV-negative and likely a long-term user of steroids.