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Sources: Four Arrested in France for Planning Attack

by Reuters

   Four people have been arrested in and around Montpellier, southern
   France, on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, police and justice
   sources said on Friday.

   Those in custody included a 22 year-old man and his 16 year-old
   girlfriend, both known to authorities for connections with radical
   Islam, after authorities found TATP explosives and other bomb-making
   materials in his home.

   France remains on high alert over possible Islamist militant attacks.
   More than 230 people have died in a series of assaults since the
   beginning of 2015 and the country has been under state of emergency
   rules since November the same year.