Macron vows defiance after 'Islamist' knife attack in church kills three

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NICE: French president vowed his country would stand firm against religious extremists after a knife-wielding man killed three people at a church, in the country's second attack blamed on Islamist terrorism this month. France will not "give up on our values," Macron said in Nice, after a Tunisian migrant went on a near half-hour rampage with a 30-centimetre (12-inch) knife, targeting people praying in the southern city's Notre-Dame basilica. A 60-year-old woman died inside the church and the body of a man, a 55-year-old church employee, was found nearby, his throat also slit. Another woman, a 44-year-old Brazilian who had fled the church to a nearby restaurant, died...

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