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A third of France's population was under a new partial lockdown Saturday to stop the spread of Covid-19, as some European countries resumed AstraZeneca vaccinations following an all-clear from EU regulators and the WHO.  Advertising Read more The pandemic is still speeding up worldwide, with the number of new global coronavirus infections rising by 14 percent over the last week compared to, ...ادامه مطلب

Issued on: 10/07/2020 - 08:49Modified: 10/07/2020 - 08:51 French investigating magistrates will probe claims that human corpses donated for sc, ...ادامه مطلب

Issued on: 20/02/2020 - 11:57Modified: 20/02/2020 - 11:57 Paris Saint-Germain chief Nasser Al-Khelaifi and FIFA's disgraced former secretary g, ...ادامه مطلب

Issued on: 20/02/2020 - 18:31Modified: 20/02/2020 - 22:50 Often called “the world's most beautiful avenue”, the French capital's iconic Champs, ...ادامه مطلب

Issued on: 28/01/2020 - 19:14Modified: 28/01/2020 - 19:14 France will send a plane this week to start evacuating its citizens from Wuhan, the , ...ادامه مطلب

After six years as Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo’s re-election bid is in full swing. With Parisians heading to the ballot box in March, the Spanish-bo Socialist leads a crowded, ...ادامه مطلب

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Issued on: 22/11/2019 - 14:10Modified: 22/11/2019 - 14:09 From the Caribbean intellectuals of the 1920s and 30s who used Paris as their base, , ...ادامه مطلب

Date created : 09/01/2019 - 13:22 Belgian authorities have arrested another suspect in connection with the Paris terror attacks of November 2015, charging him with participating in the activities of , ...ادامه مطلب

Friday’s attack on the French embassy in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou is the fifth in a series of attacks on French embassies in Africa since 2000. Mauritania, 8 August 2009: Three people, two of them French gendarmes, were slightly injured in an Islamist bomb blast on the country’s embassy in the capital Nouakchott – the first suicide bomb, ...ادامه مطلب

Dozens of people were killed Friday in twin attacks on the French embassy in Burkina Faso and the country's military headquarters, an assault that coincided with a meeting of regional anti-jihadist forces. The apparently coordinated attacks underlined the struggle the fragile West African nation faces in containing a bloody and gro, ...ادامه مطلب

Paris ground to a standstill this week after the heaviest snowfall in nearly 30 years, but was it really all that? Paris hit by “heavy snow”, proclaimed CNN, ABC News, UK newspapers The Telegraph and the Evening Standard, and a host of other media outlets. Not to sound like the current occupant of the White House, but this New Yorker is calling those screamers Fake News and the Parisian response to the white powder covering the French capital, well, sad. Yes, it’s true that snow rarely manages to get a foothold on the ground here and is normally – quite fittingly – lovely and never in excess. But Tuesday’s snow stuck and was abundant enough to allow for more than a few impromptu snowball fights or batailles de boules de neige, a phrase not often uttered by Parisian schoolchildren. But shutting down public transport? Closing the Eiffel Tower? Puh-lease. I’ve seen calmer responses in desert nations. Literally. When it snowed in Cairo in 2013 for the first time in a century, Twitter was rife with pictures of snow sphinxes and pyramids, but the schools stayed open and people made it in to work. Tuesday’s snowfall in Paris was between 12 and 15 centimetres. That’s less tha, ...ادامه مطلب

A Belgian court must acquit Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam over a shootout with police because of a legal language mix-up between Dutch and French, his defence lawyer said Thursday. Abdeslam, 28, refused to come to court in Brussels on Thursday, after accusing judges on the first day of the trial on Monday of being anti-Muslim and proclaiming he would only put his "trust in Allah". In Abdeslam's absence, lawyer Sven Mary sought the case's dismissal over a technicality in how the judges were named to investigate the gunbattle in Brussels in March 2016, in which three police offers were wounded. "It's a very Belgian story," said Mary, explaining that the top counter-terror judge should have issued the document naming the judges in Dutch, and not in French, because he serves in a Dutch-speaking court in Brussels. The "whole case" against Abdeslam and his Tunisian co-defendant, Sofiane Ayari, "must be thrown out," Mary said. Belgium's deep divisions between Dutch and French-speakers were often cited as a factor in the country's widely criticised investigations into the cell behind attacks in 2015 in Paris and 2016 in Brussels. Mary also said the case has been "pollute, ...ادامه مطلب

The swollen Seine rose even higher on Sunday, keeping Paris on alert, though forecasters said the flooding should peak by the end of the day. The river had risen 11 centimetres (4.3 inches) in 24 hours by Saturday evening, more than four metres above its normal height, causing headaches for commuters as well as people living near its overflowing banks. Tourists suffered too with the capital's famous Bateaux Mouches rivercraft out of service, and only emergency services authorised to navigate the Seine. The Vigicrues flooding agency forecasts the river will peak at 5.95 metres (19.3 feet) oveight, not quite reaching the 2016 high of 6.1 metres, when the Louvre museum was forced to shut for four days. But the world's most visited museum was on high alert Sunday, along with the Musee d'Orsay and Orangerie galleries, with the lower level of the Louvre's Islamic arts wing closed to visitors at least until Monday. A statue of an Algerian French army soldier from the Crimean War named Zouave that has guarded the river at the Pont d'Alma bridge in central Paris since 1910 was drenched up to the thighs in the muddy waters of the Seine. Police again waed Parisians against bat, ...ادامه مطلب