Residents in the village of Zabarmari in northeast Borno State on Sunday buried at least 43 people in nine mass graves after the Saturday onslaught. Suspected Boko Haram insurgents killed the farmers and some fishermen while they worked on rice fields across the Jere local government area before torching their farms. Local officials reported several other people were injured and said the attackers abducted others, including women.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) named Abu Ubaida Yusuf al-Annabi its new leader in a Saturday video, five months after the death of his predecessor. French forces killed Abdelmalek Droukdel in June during an operation in Mali. AQIM has staged attacks and abducted foreigners for ransom across North and West Africa.

Austrians were enjoying the last evening out before new coronavirus restrictions took effect when gunmen opened fire in Vienna’s city center on Monday. The attack left at least five people dead, including one of the gunmen, and injured 17 others.

Students and teachers fled Kabul University as gunmen opened fire and threw hand grenades during a book fair on Monday. The attack in Afghanistan’s capital killed at least 22 people, mostly students, and injured at least 22 others. Afghan special forces killed the three assailants after an hourslong gun battle, Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said.

French authorities raised the country’s security alert status to the highest level in response to the third attack in two months attributed to Islamic extremists. A Thursday knifing at a church in Nice, France, left two women and a man dead. Police wounded the attacker, who has been hospitalized.

A prominent Islamic scholar was delivering a lecture on Tuesday morning at the main hall of the Jamia Zubairia seminary in northwest Pakistan when the bomb exploded. Some 136 people sustained injuries, and officials expect the death toll to rise. Waqar Azim, a police officer, said initial investigations revealed the bomb went off after someone left a bag in the seminary. Police said the attack included about 11 pounds of explosives.

French authorities say a teenage refugee was the attacker who beheaded a history teacher on Friday in a suburb of Paris. The teacher, Samuel Paty, had reportedly discussed caricatures of Muhammad, the founder of Islam, with his high-school class in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. Police shot and killed the suspect during a confrontation that followed the attack. Officials told the Associated Press the suspect was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee born in Moscow.