Tag: Prime Minister Manuel Valls

A year after bloodbath, Paris fights to woo back tourists

  by Katia Dolmadjian and Gina Doggett Paris, France (AFP) –  A year after jihadists sowed terror in Paris, killing 130 people, the City of Light is struggling to restore its lustre as fearful tourists stay away in droves. In the Paris area alone, tourism revenue is expected to plunge by 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) this year. “We haven’t recovered,” the tourism chief for the Paris region, Frederic Valletoux, told AFP. “The impact is lasting […]

Priest killed in French church before police shoot dead hostage-takers

  (REUTERS)  Two attackers killed a priest with a blade and seriously wounded another hostage in a church in northern France on Tuesday before being shot dead by French police. There were no immediate details on the identity or motives of the two assailants but the investigation was handed to the anti-terrorist unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office. A police source said it appeared that the priest had his throat slit. The Vatican condemned what […]

Clashes as France gripped by fresh wave of strikes

by Guy JACKSON PARIS, France (AFP) — Masked youths clashed with police in Paris and striking workers blocked refineries and disrupted nuclear power stations on Thursday as an escalating wave of industrial action against labor reforms rocked France. Police fired tear gas at around 100 protesters who broke away from a march through the capital to smash windows of shops and parked cars, an AFP reporter said, in the latest outburst of anger at the […]