⁍ President Emmanuel Macron deployed thousands of soldiers to protect sites such as places of worship and schools.

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⁍ France’s security alert was at its highest level in response to the second deadly knife attack in its cities in two weeks.

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⁍ The attack took place at a time of swelling anger among many Muslims across the globe over the issue of French cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

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– A man shouting “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest) beheaded a woman and stabbed two other people to death in a church in Nice, France, Thursday before being shot and wounded by police. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, which left a 55-year-old sexton and a 60-year-old woman dead in the Notre Dame Basilica, the AP reports. A 21-year-old suspect, identified as Brahim al-Aouissaoui, was arrested after the attack and is being held in a police station in Nice, France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor says. The prosecutor says the suspect entered the church looking for a place to sleep and killed the sexton when he arrived. He also beheaded the 60-year-old woman and stabbed a 44-year-old woman before police arrived and shot and wounded him. Reuters reports that tens of thousands of people staged anti-French protests around the world Friday, including in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Palestinian territories. In Pakistan, police briefly fired tear gas at protesters who broke through security blockades in Islamabad in a failed attempt to demonstrate at the French Embassy against the printing in France of images depicting the Prophet Mohammad. In Bangladesh, marchers in the capital Dhaka chanted “Boycott French products” and carried banners calling Macron “the world’s biggest terrorist.” Some burned effigies of Macron. “Macron is leading Islamophobia,” said Dhaka demonstrator Akramul Haq. “The Muslim world will not let this go in vain. We’ll rise and stand in solidarity against him.”