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A federal judge has issued an injunction against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his department, blocking his agecy from conducting immigration sweeps and using race. His practices have been controversial for residents in Arizona, and has been widely discussed on social media.

A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy Parisian commercial district on Saturday, the Associated Press reported. The government said it was determining whether this attack had any links to the British soldier who was killed on a London street earlier in the week by suspected Islamic terrorists.

A mother and two daughters were allegedly killed by their male relatives in southern Egypt who believed that they had affairs, in the latest apparent example of the so-called "honor killings" in which women are slain for violating traditional morals, a security official said on Friday.