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An 84-year-old man has shot two people, seriously injuring them, in the French city of Bayonne. They had surprised him in the act of setting a fire outside the entrance to a mosque. The attacker had already attracted the attention of local authorities with racist statements. In 2015 he stood as a local candidate for the far-right National Front. Commentators see hatred of Muslims as posing a major problem for French society.

The Russian Ministry of Education has instructed schools to give a special lesson on weapons designer Mikhail Kalashnikov on November 10, the 100th anniversary of his birth. Among other things recommendations for the lesson include having pupils disassemble and reassemble one of Kalashnikov's famous AK47 assault rifles. Russian commentators disapprove.

For months Spain's professional women football players have been trying to negotiate better terms of employment with their clubs. They now plan to strike on November 16 and 17 in a bid to push through their demand of an annual salary of at least 16,000 euros a year for working full-time. Professional male players are already paid this much, and those in the premier league earn up to 150,000 euros a year. The women are right to protest, commentators write.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader and founder of the Islamic State, is dead. According to US President Donald Trump a special unit of the US army led an operation against al-Baghdadi on Saturday night which culminated in the terrorist leader blowing himself up with his suicide vest. But the fight against the IS and jihadist terror is far from over, commentators warn.

Das britische Unterhaus hat den Weg frei gemacht für die von Premier Johnson geforderte Neuwahl. Sie findet nun am 12. Dezember statt. Zuvor hatte die EU die Austrittsfrist bis Ende Januar verlängert. Damit war ein No-Deal-Brexit vom Tisch, so dass die Labour-Partei ihren Widerstand aufgab. Kommentatoren setzen in die Wahl ganz unterschiedliche Hoffnungen.

Ein 84 Jahre alter Mann hat in Bayonne zwei Menschen angeschossen und schwer verletzt. Sie hatten ihn dabei überrascht, wie er vor einer Moschee Feuer legen wollte. Der Attentäter war in seiner Stadt bereits durch rassistische Äußerungen aufgefallen. 2015 kandidierte er für den rechtsextremen Front National. Im wachsenden Hass auf Muslime sehen Kommentatoren ein großes Problem für Frankreichs Gesellschaft.