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Rioters clashed with police on Saturday night on the fifth day of unrest following the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old boy in a Paris suburb, while a local mayor said he was the victim of an assassination attempt by part of the protesters. Police had arrested 719 people across the country as of early Sunday, following a deployment of 45,000 officers and "gendarmes", the French equivalent of the national guard, in an attempt to control crowds in the unfolding crisis. quickly, the French Interior Ministry said.Some 45 police and gendarmes were injured overnight, but "their resolute action, coordinated by…

Syria said it repulsed a missile salvo on Sunday from Israel, where police said debris from a Syrian anti-aircraft missile hit a remote town without causing any injuries.In recent months, Israel has intensified attacks on Syrian airports and airbases to disrupt Iran's increasing use of supply airlines to deliver weapons to allies in Syria and Lebanon, including Lebanon's Hezbollah.Syrian state media said air defenses intercepted Israeli missiles in central parts of the country, shooting down most of them. A Syrian army statement said missiles that flew over parts of the Lebanese capital Beirut hit places in the vicinity of the…

French police are investigating this Sunday an attack committed during the night against the House of the mayor of L'Haÿ-les-Roses (a town south of Paris), Vincent Jeanbrun, and his family, using a car as a battering ram against their home.As Jeanbrun himself explained in a statement, The incident occurred around 1:30 a.m. while he was in the office working, "as it had been three nights" as a result of the wave of riots that crossed France.(We recommend you read: Is there someone there?, the astronomers who capture the sounds of outer space) The attackers used a car to force their…

Many coffee drinkers will tell you that there's something about that morning cup that other sources of caffeine just can't match. Researchers in Portugal recently set out to investigate that idea: is caffeine solely responsible for making people feel more alert, or are other parts of the morning ritual (perhaps the smell or taste of coffee) triggering that energetic feeling? ?"If you listen to these people, they usually say that they need to have coffee in the morning to get ready. We wanted to understand the brain mechanisms and the pattern of functional connectivity that would justify this claim," said…