Trial opens for failed Islamic State attack on French church

LYON, France (AP) — A 29-year-old Algerian man is going on trial in Paris accused of killing a policewoman and trying to blow up a church in a failed 2015 attack allegedly orchestrated by the Islamic State group. Instead of bombing a Sunday Mass in the Paris suburb of Villejuif, Sidi Ahmed Ghlam shot himself in the leg, and was soon arrested. The incident came amid a series of Islamist extremist attacks in 2015-2016 that rocked France. Ghlam is charged with murder and attempted terrorist m