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French soldier shoots, wounds machete-wielding attacker at Paris Louvre

A French soldier shot and wounded a man armed with a machete and carrying two bags on his back on Friday as he tried to enter the Paris Louvre museum in what the government said appeared to have been a terrorist attack. The man shouted Allahu Akbar (God is greatest) and rushed at police and soldiers before being shot near the museum's shopping mall, police said, adding a second person had also been detained after acting suspiciously. The attacker was alive but seriously wounded, the head of Paris police Michel Cadot told reporters at the scene, adding the bags he had been carrying contained no explosives. "The soldier fired five bullets," Cadot said, describing how the man hurried threateningly toward the soldiers at around 10 a.m. (0900 GMT). "It was an attack by a person ... who represented a direct threat and whose actions suggested a terrorist context." Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said during a visit to Bayeux in Normandy: "It appears to be an...