Tag: paris

• 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.

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

  Rare Gauguin painting from his time in Tahiti fetches €9.5 million

  

  A rare canvas by French artist Paul Gauguin from his time in Tahiti fetched €9.5 million (US$10.5 million) in Paris on Tuesday, nearly twice its estimated value, the auction house said.

• Wednesday, November 20th 2019 - 08:42 UTC

  French minister meets northeast Brazil states governors to discuss sustainable development

  

  French minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, met on Tuesday in Paris with the Brazilian governors of the nine states of the consortium for sustainable development in the northeast of the country.

• Monday, November 18th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Yellow Vests in France celebrate first anniversary of protests with clashes in Paris

  

  French “yellow vest” demonstrators occupied a top Parisian department store on Sunday, a day after clashes in the capital on the first anniversary of the protest movement. The glitzy Galeries Lafayette store in the Opera shopping district was evacuated after dozens of protesters chanting anti-capitalist and anti-government slogans took over the third floor.

• Wednesday, October 9th 2019 - 09:02 UTC

  A US$ 840.000 Swiss watch nabbing in Paris; 71 such robberies this year

  

  A Japanese man who stepped out of his Paris hotel for a cigarette was robbed of his US$840,000 Swiss watch by a thief who snatched it off his wrist, police sources said on Tuesday.

• Friday, July 26th 2019 - 10:11 UTC

  Northern Europe literally frying in all time high temperatures; train travelers told to delay trips

  

  Paris on Thursday baked in an all-time high temperature of 42.6 degrees Celsius as a ferocious heatwave smashed records across northern Europe, sparking concerns about public health and causing new misery for rail travellers.

• Saturday, June 29th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Europe “roasting” under a sweltering heat wave

  

  Europe was bracing itself for a sweltering Saturday as the heat wave continued across the continent. The Meteo-France weather service lifted its red warning but forecast a “very hot day” across a large central band of the country with the mercury expected to rise to 42 degrees Celsius in some parts.

• Thursday, June 13th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  First electric scooter death in Paris; controversy over regulating the popular device

  

  A man died in Paris after his electric scooter collided with a truck, sources said on Tuesday, the first such fatality involving the increasingly popular devices in the French capital as concern grows over their safety.