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When a police officer last week shot and killed a resident of Paris’s suburb of Nanterre, 17-year-old Nahel M., it unleashed a wave of unrest across France – an echo of similar protests launched by youth living in housing projects two decades earlier. Billions of euros of investment in the years since have done little to calm anger over police harassment and poor living conditions in France’s housing projects.

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French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday met with hundreds of French officials to begin exploring the “deeper reasons” for the country’s plunge into riots after the killing of a teenager at a traffic stop.

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Overnight violence in French cities has halved in 24 hours, the interior ministry said Tuesday, a week after riots erupted over the police killing of a teenager at a traffic stop.

Explosions reportedly caused by a drone attack on a military airbase near Moscow (Picture: Twitter)

At least four kamikaze drones were shot down by air defences in Moscow in the early hours of this morning.

Russia has accused Ukraine of launching an attack on an administrative building at the Kubinka military air base, some 48 miles southwest of the Kremlin.

A fifth drone was jammed, crashing into the Odintsovo district, the defence ministry said.

Russian news agencies reported that two drones were intercepted near a village 19 miles southwest of the Kremlin.

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One drone was also detected in the neighbouring Kaluga region.

Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Ukraine launched another drone attack on the Russian capital and its region, temporarily disrupting flight operations at the Vnukovo airport.

‘At this moment, the attacks have been repelled by air defence forces,’ Sobyanin said on his Telegram messaging channel.

‘All detected drones have been eliminated.’

There were no casualties or injured reported, Sobyanin added.

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