France has deployed 45,000 police and several armored vehicles to quell protests across the country over the police killing of a teenager for a traffic violation and arrested nearly 1,000 protesters.

A 16-year-old boy allegedly shot his mother with a firearm and then killed two on-duty police officers before taking his own life in western Canada's Edmonton city on Thursday.

Palestinian resistance groups decry the killing of a teenager in Nablus, saying martyrs’ blood will strengthen struggle and will put an eternal curse on the Israeli regime.

Human rights activists warn that Saudi officials plan to execute eight teenagers from the Shia-populated Qatif region over trumped-up terror allegations.

A police officer in Los Angeles fatally shot a teenage girl in a clothing store dressing room Thursday during a chaotic confrontation that the city police chief called “devastating and tragic”.