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Video of terror attack in Nice, France.

At least 50 people are feared dead and 150 have been injured in a Bastille Day attack in Nice, southern France Eyewitnesses reported a gunfight between police responding to the attack and suspects at the scene Gunmen are believed to have taken hostages in two hotel and a restaurant in the city according to witnesses Witnesses said the driver crashed his truck into a group of people, jumped down and opened fire with a gun

At least 50 people are feared dead and 150 have been injured in a Bastille Day attack in Nice, southern France Eyewitnesses reported a gunfight between police responding to the attack and suspects at the scene Gunmen are believed to have taken hostages in two hotel and a restaurant in the city according to witnesses Witnesses said the driver crashed his truck into a group of people, jumped down and opened fire with a gun A lorry ran down a large group of people in the southern French city of Nice during a suspected terrorist attack. At least 50 people...

A lorry has struck a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in the southern French city of Nice, media reports and witnesses say. The incident took place on the Promenade des Anglais during a firework display, the reports said. One image on Twitter showed about a dozen people lying on the street, some being tended to. The local prefecture has urged people in the area to remain indoors, calling the incident "an attack". Some reports spoke of shots being exchanged between police and the occupants of the lorry but these have not been confirmed. Social media video showed people running through...

According to initial reports, multiple injuries have been reported at the scene. Unconfirmed reports state that 10 have been pronounced dead at arrival. A reporter at the scene said: “There are people in blood everywhere” BREAKING: Truck Drives Into Crowd During Bastille Day In Nice, France.

France’s national holiday turned ugly for revelers Thursday night in the southern city of Nice, as a truck reportedly crashed into a crowd of Bastille Day revelers and fears of terrorism spread.

Full Title: There Was a Significant Terrorist Attack in France This Week and the Mainstream Media Hasn’t Even Bothered Telling YouThree deliberate, simultaneous explosions rocked a major petrochemical plant in France on Bastille Day, but as usual it is still ‘too early to talk about terrorism’.Despite the nature and severity of the attack, which French investigations have conceded was deliberate and with a delicious turn of French understatement “malicious”, yesterday’s explosions at the Berre L’Etang refinery in second city Marseilles failed to make the front page of a single English-language newspaper this morning. The explosions took place on Tuesday morning...

>Tuesday, July 14 probably passes without much fanfare in your home, but the date, Bastille Day, marks the beginning of the greatest organized persecution of Christians since the Emperor Diocletian. This day, the beginning of the French Revolution, also planted the seeds for the murderous ideologies of socialism and nationalism that would poison the next two centuries, murdering millions of believers and other innocent civilians. Between them, those two political movements racked up quite a body count: In Death By Government, scholar R. J. Rummel pointed out thatduring the first 88 years of this century, almost 170,000,000 men, women and...

<p>One of the most dramatic events in French history was the storming of the Bastille prison on July 14, 1789. This event is now viewed as the spark which set off the French Revolution.</p> <p>This singular event is a public holiday in France: ”Le quatorze juillet” (14 July), formally known as the “Fête de la Fédération” (Federation Holiday). It is usually referred to as Bastille Day, marking the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, and in France and much of the rest of Europe, it is looked upon with respect and reverence.</p>

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President Francois Hollande on Monday pleaded with the French to be proud of their country in an attempt to boost confidence at a time of enduring gloom over record unemployment and faltering growth. Speaking in a televised interview on France's national Bastille Day holiday after a military parade commemorating World War I, Hollande tried to persuade the country that his reforms were the right way forward despite opposition within his own ranks. "There is a sort of illness which is not serious but can be contagious, where we are always deploring and denigrating. You have to be proud!" he said,...

As the French people celebrate their revolution on Saturday, Bastille Day, the founding principles — liberte, egalite and fraternite — seem to be alive and well. New President Francois Hollande embraced equality on the campaign trail this spring. To reduce the French deficit, he proposed raising taxes on large corporations and the super-rich. Hollande's proposal would slap a 75 percent tax rate on anyone making more than 1 million euros a year, a huge jump from the current rate. It would also reinstate some wealth taxes Sarkozy got rid of. Many wealthy French have already gone abroad.

July 14 is the day the French people celebrate the storming of the Bastille. This led to the dethroning and beheading of King Louis XVI and the establishment of the first French Republic, which promised “liberty, equality, and fraternity.” The rest of the story doesn’t go so well. Out of the French Revolution came the Reign of Terror, which saw 16,000-40,000 people guillotined. Within fifteen years, the Republic gave way to the French Empire and the Napoleonic Wars and its millions of deaths.France is hardly alone in the list of nations with revolutions that failed to live up to their...

France has staged its traditional Bastille Day parade amid criticism from human rights groups at the invitation of some African leaders. Soldiers from 13 African nations marched through Paris on Wednesday to mark 50 years of independence from French colonial rule. Protesters denounced France's ties to its former colonies in a demonstration on the eve of the parade, condemning some of the African leaders invited to the ceremony of committing atrocities. "We are scandalised by the presence on the official stand, among the heads of state invited by [French president] Nicolas Sarkozy, of dictators who fire on their own people,"...

In honor of this Bastille Day, I send warmest wishes to the people of France. May you continue to inspire the world with your efforts to build a brighter future for us all.

Via the Brussels Journal, news that the French authorities are trying to make the media downplay the latest round of rioting: Only the figures for the night of July 13-14 were published: “Some 500 vehicles” were burned, the worst ever recorded for the eve of the national holiday. Despite repeated requests to the Interior Ministry, and the DGPN [similar to the FBI], no figures were forthcoming for the night of July 14-15. These orders have been strictly applied. The different prefectures contacted by Le Monde refused to respond, citing “ministerial instructions.” Regional news media reported the same problem. The daily...

French youths set 317 cars on fire and wounded 13 police officers overnight during a series of riots on the eve of the Bastille Day holiday, police say. Paris police said 240 people had been arrested, almost double the number held after unrest on the same day last year. The injured officers are suffering from hearing difficulties caused by home-made explosives blowing up beside them. Last week, the death of a young man in police custody caused three nights of riots in the southern town of Firminy. Police said Mohamed Benmouna, a 21-year-old of Algerian origin, had died after trying...

Bastille Day, 2009: 220 bloody years since the cult of the Goddess Libertyrose up in earnest in its attempt to dethrone Godby dethroning God's anointed. Here's to the fall of all false godsMay the King soon return.

Leaders from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa have been attending France's Bastille Day military parade.