PARIS Cheap New Balance 574 , Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Six French soldiers were wounded in a vehicle attack Wednesday in a northwestern suburb of Paris, the sixth such terrorist attack on soldiers this year.
According to several French media, the event targeting the soldiers revived the debate over the effectiveness and necessity of on-duty military personnel in France.
French journal Le Figaro described the military as a "jackpot" for terrorists, saying the recurrence of attacks had led many security specialists to question the relevance of the 7,000-soldier sentinel operation in effect since the January 2015 attacks in Paris.
Le Figaro quoted Benedicte Cheron New Balance 574 Shoes , a specialist in relations between the army and society, as saying that the continued presence of the soldiers was primarily a political move to "reassure the population."
Local journal Le Parisien said that soldiers had become targets of the Islamic State (IS) because of their omnipresence on the country's streets.
But French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly defended the operation on Wednesday, saying it was "more necessary than ever." She also said last Monday that the military was "a bulwark before anything else because each time they were able to foil the attempts of attacks that were in preparation," according to Le Figaro.
The suspect of the most recent attack, 37-year-old Algerian Hamou B. New Balance 574 Sale , was wounded in an exchange of gunfire with police during his arrest on Wednesday after a high-speed chase on the A16 motorway in north France.
His detention and interrogation was interrupted because of his injuries, a judicial source quoted by Franceinfo said. The suspect was still in hospital in Lille on Thursday.
An investigation into the "attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise" has been opened by the anti-terrorist section of the Paris prosecutor's office.
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BERLIN, March 25 (Xinhua) -- The crash of German budget airline Germanwings flight 4U9525 in southern France with 150 people on board, including 72 Germans, shocked the whole nation. No one is expected to have survived the crash.
At 10:53 local time (0953 GMT) on Wednesday New Balance 574 Pink , staff of Germanwings and its parent company Lufthansa held a minute's silence at Duesseldorf Airport.
Lighted candles and messages to mourn victims of the plane crash were seen at the airport.
"Dear parents, brothers, friends and lovers: Be strong, Duesseldorf. The world and I grieve together with you. You are not alone," read one note.
After confirming the accident on Tuesday New Balance 574 Green , Germanwings and Lufthansa changed their otherwise colored logos into gray scale on social media.
At the request of the German Ministry of Interior, flags at all federal agencies in Germany will fly at half-mast from Wednesday to Friday.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), of which Duesseldorf is the capital, also decided to fly flags in government offices at half-mast on Wednesday and Thursday.
A total of 16 teen-aged students and two teachers in Joseph-Koenig High School in Haltern am See, a town 80 km north of Duesseldorf New Balance 574 Burgundy , died in the plane crash.
After the tragic news was received, the school was closed. Many students brought flowers and candles to mourn their peers.
"This is the darkest day in the history of our city," said Bodo Klimpel, the mayor of Haltern am See.
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NRW Minister of Education Sylvia Loehrmann said at a press conference: "No one can take the pain of losing a close family member or friend. We can only share it. And through this sharing we can provide some consolation."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday arrived with NRW Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft at the crash site in southern France.
German President Joachim Gauck, who was visiting South America, also decided to cut short his visit and return home early. "My thoughts are with the families and friends of the victims New Balance 574 Classic ," he said. "May they find strength and comfort in this difficult time."
The Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, plans to mourn the victims of the disaster on Thursday before the start of its session.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- It's the first time that both the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots in the two largest U.S. lotteries top 350 million dollars after drawings this week failed to yield winners for either game's top prize.
At 382 million dollars, the Mega Millions jackpot is the sixth-largest in the game's history.
Meanwhile New Balance 574 , the Powerball jackpot is 356 million dollars, the 14th largest in the game's history, and the 21st largest in U.S. lottery.
The combined jackpot, which keeps climbing, now exceeds 735 million dollars, according to a CNBC news report Thursday. An analysis from Allstate's data science team put the odds of snaring both at roughly 1 in 75 quadrillion.
However, if you are lucky enough to pick the winning combo for either of the coming drawings, you won't walk away with the full amount.
Lottery site USAMega estimates the federal tax withholding on the 238.3-million-dollar lump sum would be nearly 60 milli.