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posted by n1 on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:00AM   Printer-friendly

France has declared a national state of emergency and has closed its borders after at least 40 people were killed in multiple shootings in Paris.

At least 15 people were killed near the Bataclan arts centre, where up to 60 people are being held hostage. Explosions and gunfire are reported.

Three people were killed in an attack near the Stade de France, with some reports suggesting a suicide blast.

Paris authorities have urged people to stay indoors.

Military personnel are being deployed across Paris.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/13/455943961/violence-reported-in-paris
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/13/world/paris-shooting/index.html

Update #1 [BBC updates]:

Scores of people have been killed in multiple gun and bomb attacks in Paris

At least 100 people are reported to have died inside the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris

Others died in attacks near the Stade de France, where France were playing Germany, and at restaurants

France has declared a national state of emergency and has closed its borders

Paris residents have been asked to stay indoors and military personnel are being deployed across the city

[...] Reuters. quoting an un-named official at Paris City Hall, says the current death toll in Paris is around 140.

Update #2:

According to the Paris prosecutor, of the four assailants who died during the sidge at the Bataclan, three committed suicide by detonating explosive vests. The prosecutor has warned that some of their accomplices may "still be on the loose".

[...] Here is what French president François Hollande told reporters outside the Bataclan concert hall just now: "To all those who have seen these awful things, I want to say we are going to lead a war which will be pitiless. Because when terrorists are capable of committing such atrocities they must be certain that they are facing a determined France, a united France, a France that is together and does not let itself be moved, even if today we express infinite sorrow."


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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Saturday November 14 2015, @06:40PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Saturday November 14 2015, @06:40PM (#263377)

    And so are Christianity and Judaism if you go by what's in the Bible. It's OK for a father to have sex with his daughters?

    Technically that's relying on what *isn't* in the Bible. Apparently there's debate over whether it was left out because it was "too obvious," it was a scribal error, or it actually means something. And then there was the instance [biblegateway.com] where Lot's daughters got him drunk and slept with him. Presumably they thought he wouldn't go along with it otherwise? I dunno. Lot was kind of an idiot.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest_in_the_Bible [wikipedia.org]

    How about Christians in the US trying to tell women what to do with their own bodies all the time?

    The other side of that argument being "thou shalt not murder." But I'm sure you're aware of all that already.

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  • (Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Saturday November 14 2015, @10:27PM

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Saturday November 14 2015, @10:27PM (#263483)

    The other side of that argument being "thou shalt not murder."

    That argument is rather ineffective because other people usually do not reside within your body. If they do, I can kick them from my property, and if that happens to kill them, then so be it. People have a fundamental right to control their own bodies, and someone else certainly doesn't have a fundamental right to live in mine, even if they require that to live. I won't allow myself to be forced to give organs to some person who would die without them, and I won't be forced to provide living space to some person within my own body.