PARIS, Ramadan 18, 1435, July 15, 2014, SPA -- A French soldier was killed in a suicide bombing in northern Mali, where local and foreign troops have struggled to restore order after quelling an Islamist insurgency last year, officials said, according to Reuters. The Foreign Legion soldier, the ninth to die since France intervened in its former colony in January 2013, was killed in the northern city of Gao on Monday, the defence ministry said. --SPA 13:55 LOCAL TIME 10:55 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w