France to get new counter terrorism centre

President Emmanuel Macron will set up a national counter-terrorism centre to coordinate France's intelligence services, his office said Wednesday a day after an attack on a policeman in Paris. The new task force, which will have around 20 staff answering directly to Macron, will be in charge of providing "strategic guidance to the intelligence services", the presidency said. Its main task will be to "decompartmentalise" France's various spy agencies to ensure they coordinate efforts to prevent further attacks, officials said.