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AFGHANISTAN

Fresh earthquake kills one, injures dozens

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Sunday, killing one and injuring dozens more in the same region where more than 1,000 people died in tremors recently. Residents in the city of Herat had just begun returning to their homes again when the quake hit, after days of sleeping outside fearing aftershocks from last week's tremors. Sunday's quake hit with an epicenter 33 kilometers northwest of Herat city, capital of the same-named western province, and was followed by aftershocks of magnitudes 5.4 and 4.2, the US Geological Survey said.

FRANCE

Teacher stabbed to death in school attack

A man who was under surveillance by French security services over suspected radicalization stabbed a teacher to death at his former high school and critically wounded two others on Friday in northern France, authorities said. A colleague and a fellow teacher identified the dead educator as Dominique Bernard, a French language teacher at the Gambetta-Carnot school, which enrolls students aged 11-18. On Saturday, France announced it would deploy up to 7,000 soldiers under the highest alert level. Warnings of new attacks led to the evacuation of two of France's best-known monuments, the Louvre Museum and the Palace of Versailles.

Agencies Via Xinhua