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After an attack at a police station south-west of Paris in which a female police worker was stabbed to death by a Tunisian man, France's Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin plans to present a new anti-terror law on Wednesday. The perpetrator had allegedly sought psychiatric help for depression a few months ago. He had also apparently taken part in a campaign against Mohammed cartoons.

Representatives of Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Britain and the United Nations are to hold informal talks on the Cyprus question in Geneva from Tuesday to Thursday. The aim of the conference is to resume negotiations on a solution for the island, which has been divided since 1974. Press voices from Greece and Cyprus doubt that the meeting will produce any results.

The movement supporting jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been forced to discontinue its official activities. At the behest of a state prosecutor a court in Moscow ordered Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) to suspend its work, and the state prosecutors ordered Navalny's network of regional offices to do the same. According to a lawsuit the contents of which are largely unknown, the two organisations are to be classified as extremist and banned. Commentators are appalled, and not just in Russia.

"We remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide," US President Joe Biden said on the 106th anniversary of the event, officially recognising the genocide, as previously announced. The Turkish foreign ministry promptly summoned the US ambassador in Ankara to convey its reaction: Biden's remarks had "opened a wound" in the countries' relations. Commentators discuss what comes next.