Tag: paris

• Tuesday, May 4th 2021 - 09:18 UTC

  France to return to Argentina Tehuelche remains seized in 1896 and displayed at Paris museums

  

  The French government has, at last, agreed to return the skeleton of a Liempichún Sakamata which ended up in a Paris museum after being seized in 1896 by Count Henry de la Vaulx, who desecrated his grave and took it away with all of its adornments in Argentina.

• Friday, November 27th 2020 - 08:06 UTC

  Iranian diplomat on trial in Belgium accused of plotting a bomb attack in Paris

  

  An Iranian diplomat goes on trial in Belgium on Friday accused of plotting to bomb an opposition rally outside Paris, in a case that has stoked tensions with Teheran. In June 2018 Belgian authorities thwarted what they said was an attempt to smuggle explosives to France to attack a meeting of one of Iran's exiled opposition movements.

• Friday, July 24th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Paris sewage system analysis shows when Covid-19 quarantine was imposed and lifted

  

  Samples of wastewater from the Paris sewage system have been showing traces of COVID-19 again since the end of June, having vanished when France imposed a lockdown, according to the head of the laboratory leading the research.

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 07:41 UTC

  The “little Spanish girl” who has been re-elected mayor of Paris

  

  Anne Hidalgo, re-elected Paris mayor on Sunday, is a Spanish-born socialist who has waged a divisive but ambitious campaign to push cars out of the centre of the French capital. Hidalgo, 61, became in 2014 the first-ever woman to head the French capital's city hall that had once been the political springboard for late president Jacques Chirac.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 12:27 UTC

  Clashes and rioting in Paris recalling the death of a black man in French police custody

  

  Clashes broke out between police and protesters in Paris on Tuesday after around 20,000 people defied a ban to rally over the 2016 death of a black man in police custody, galvanized by US demonstrations against racism and deadly police violence.

• Wednesday, February 26th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Leonardo da Vinci's exhibition at the Louvre in Paris received 1.1 million visitors

  

  Nearly 1.1 million people flocked to see a blockbuster Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Louvre in Paris before it closed on Monday - an all-time record - the museum said. The huge show to mark the 500th anniversary of the artist's death in France, drew twice the numbers of the previous biggest show at the world's most visited museum.

• Monday, February 10th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Argentine Catholic Church readies for the anti/abortion battle: rally on Women's Day

  

  The Catholic Church in Argentina has called an anti-abortion rally to coincide with International Women's Day, after centre-left President Alberto Fernandez spoke in favor of decriminalization of the issue.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:23 UTC

  Brexit is a “historic warning sign”, the reaction from Paris on EU reforms

  

  Brexit is a “historic warning sign” for the European Union, French President Emmanuel Macron said hours before Britain's departure from the EU, adding that it meant “we need more Europe”.

• Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  First time since the French Revolution with no Christmas mass at Notre Dame cathedral

  

  For the first time in more than 200 years, worshippers will not be able to attend Christmas mass at Notre-Dame cathedral, still being restored after a devastating fire.

• Wednesday, December 4th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Huge national strike challenges Macron's pension system overhaul

  

  Trains cancelled, schools closed: France scrambled to make contingency plans on Tuesday for a huge strike against pension overhauls that poses one of the biggest challenges yet to President Emmanuel Macron's sweeping reform drive.