Tag: paris

Monday, July 29th 2024 - 08:56 UTC
Paris 2024 apologizes for opening ceremony hurting Christian feelings

Certain parts of Friday's opening ceremony at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games were deemed to have a religious connotation that hurt the feelings of Christians and prompted an apology from the organizers.
Saturday, July 27th 2024 - 08:31 UTC
Rain fails to mar opening ceremony at Paris 2024

The opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics was held Friday for over four hours at the French capital amid constant downpours that were not enough to cloud the magnificence of the artistic display.
Friday, May 3rd 2024 - 10:59 UTC
Mondino says all Chinese people look the same and becomes social media laughingstock

Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino took heavy social media flak Thursday after her remarks in a newspaper interview that all Chinese people looked the same. Therefore nobody could know whether or not the staff at the controversial base in the Neuquén province were scientists.
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.