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Newshour: 17/10/2020 12:06 GMT: France: Teacher beheaded after showing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad

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17/10/2020 12:06 GMT

17/10/2020 12:06 GMT: France: Teacher beheaded after showing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad

BBC World Service - Newshour, France: Teacher beheaded after showing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad

President Macron says the attack bore all the hallmarks of an "Islamist terrorist attack"

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French police are questioning four people after a teacher in a suburb of Paris was beheaded by a suspected Islamist extremist. We hear from Jean-Remi Girard, president of the National Union of School Teachers.

Also in the programme: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won a landslide victory in the country's general election; and a city in eastern China has started offering a coronavirus vaccine to the general public - although it has not yet completed clinical trials.

(Photo: Flowers have been left at the school where the murdered man taught. Credit: Getty Images)

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