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by Katell Prigent / Marie Giffard Agence France Presse TRAPPES, France (AFP) — A man stabbed his mother and sister to death and seriously injured another person in a town near Paris on Thursday before being shot dead by police. The 36-year-old had serious mental health problems and had been on a terror watch list since 2016, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told reporters after visiting the scene in the town of Trappes. The motive for […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – A fire in a residential building near Paris on Sunday left seven people with serious injuries including five children who were in a “life-threatening” condition, firefighters said. Some 16 people including 10 police officers and a firefighter were also slightly hurt in the blaze in Aubervilliers, northeast of Paris, which was later brought under control, the fire service said. In the same town less than a month ago, a fire in a […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — French energy giant Total has officially quit its multi-billion-dollar gas project in Iran, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said on Monday, following the reimposition of US sanctions. “Total has officially left the agreement for the development of phase 11 of South Pars (gas field). It has been more than two months that it announced that it would leave the contract,” he told the ICANA news agency, which is linked to the […]
RENNES, France (AFP) — Some 1,800 people were ordered to evacuate their homes in northwest France on Sunday as a bomb squad defused a British bomb from World War II, officials said. The 220-kilogram (485-pound) bomb was found in late June during construction work near the center of Rouen in Normandy. Residents living within a 270-meter (nearly 900-foot) radius of the site was told to leave the area early Sunday ahead of the operation, which […]
by Joseph Schmid and Paul Gypteau Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — The Eiffel Tower — closed to visitors since Wednesday afternoon — is to reopen on Friday after workers went on strike over unacceptably long queues at the Paris landmark. Workers walked out in protest at a new access policy that has seen separate lifts allocated to visitors with pre-booked tickets and those who buy them on site. At the same time, the tower […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – Staff at the Eiffel Tower shut down the Paris landmark on Wednesday afternoon in protest over a new access policy which they say is generating “monstrous” queues for tourists. Access to the monument, which welcomed more than six million visitors last year, was blocked from 1400 GMT, according to a sign at the base of the tower. Staff had already been set to strike on Thursday. The site’s management said staff […]
by Maureen Cofflard Agence France-Presse SOCCIA, France (AFP)–Four people including a seven-year-old girl were killed Wednesday after being swept away by a flash flood in a canyon on the French island of Corsica. The dead included a father and his young daughter as well as their guide, local prosecutor Eric Bouillard said. One of those killed was yet to be identified. A fifth person was still missing while two others belonging to the same group […]
PARIS, France (Eagle News) — Eiffel Tower workers are planning to strike this week over a new access policy for visitors which they say is generating “monstrous” waits at the famous tourist landmark, union officials said Monday. Since early July the monument has set aside half of daily tickets for people who buy them in advance on the internet and choose a scheduled time for their visit. Previously just 20 percent of tickets could be […]
by Anne Pascale Reboul and Joseph Schmid Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — France’s interior minister Gerard Collomb was due to appear before parliament on Monday, as opposition MPs accused the government of a cover-up over a former top presidential security aide who was charged with gang violence. In the most damaging scandal to hit President Emmanuel Macron since he took office last year, Alexandre Benalla was charged Sunday after he was […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — France and Russia will jointly deliver humanitarian aid to the former Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta, the French Presidency said in a statement with Russia on Friday. A Russian cargo plane arrived late Friday in Chateauroux in central France to load 50 tons of medical equipment and essential goods provided by France, said an AFP videographer at the scene, to be transported to the former rebel area which was […]
by Eve Szeftel and Joseph Schmid Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — The World Cup-winning French team returned home to a heroes’ welcome on Monday, parading down the Champs-Elysees as hundreds of thousands of cheering fans gave a raucous welcome to the country’s newest idols. After overcoming a determined Croatia to win 4-2 in Sunday’s final in Russia, the team came back to euphoric crowds in Paris hoping to catch a glimpse of the […]
Here are some of the scenes and interviews of the spectators after France’s victory over Croatia during the finals of the World Cup on Sunday, July 15, in Moscow, Russia, taken by our EBC Correspondent in Moscow. (Photos and videos by Emy Coloma, Eagle News Service correspondent in Moscow, Russia)
