Police say man opens fire, injuring two, near supermarket west of Paris

PARIS French police officials said on Monday a man had opened fire near a supermarket west of Paris and injured two people.

Elite police were at a building where a suspect was holed up, the officials said.

According to BFM TV the man was known to police for violent behavior.




Rights group wants settlement soccer clubs to relocate inside Israel


JERUSALEM A human rights group urged soccer's governing body, FIFA, on Monday to move matches being played by Israeli teams in the occupied West Bank to Israel, saying that playing in Jewish settlements meant they were playing on stolen land.




Knives out for young pretender Macron in French presidential race


PARIS Inside the election war rooms of Paris, French politicians on both left and right are waking up to the threat Emmanuel Macron poses ahead of next year's presidential election and stepping up attacks on the fresh-faced former economy minister.




Squeezing North Korea: old friends take steps to isolate regime


SEOUL From kicking out North Korean workers and ending visa-free travel for its citizens, to stripping flags of convenience from its ships, Cold War-era allies from Poland to Mongolia are taking measures to squeeze the isolated country.