Posts tagged with "Paris"

'Yellow vests' hit French streets in fifth Saturday of protests Europe

'Yellow vests' hit French streets in fifth Saturday of protests

December 15th, 2018 Thousands of protesters took to the streets of French cities on Saturday in the fifth weekend of nationwide demonstrations against Emmanuel Macron's government, despite calls to hold off after a gun attack in Strasbourg earlier this week. In Paris, police were out in force to contain possible outbursts of violence. But several major...
President has brief contacts with leaders in Paris Cyprus

President has brief contacts with leaders in Paris

November 11th, 2018 Brief contacts with a series of world leaders were made by President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday in Paris while he was attending events to mark 100 years since the end of World War I. On Saturday he reportedly held a brief meeting with Turkish President Tayip Erdogan although the Cyprus News Agency reported that the Cyprus issue was...
Cyprus president in Paris for Armistice Day events Cyprus

Cyprus president in Paris for Armistice Day events

November 11th, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades is in Paris on Sunday to take part in commemorations to mark 100 years since the end of WWI. The ceremony will be attended by over 80 heads of state and leaders of international organisations from around the world. These will include US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Germany’s...
Anastasiades to attend WWI memorial in Paris Cyprus

Anastasiades to attend WWI memorial in Paris

November 8th, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades travelled to Paris on Thursday to attend upcoming commemoration events for the centennial of the World War I armistice. Anastasiades was in the French capital at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron. A total of 85 heads of state or government and their spouses were invited to the...
Knifeman kills mother, sister in Paris suburb attack - source (Updated) Europe

Knifeman kills mother, sister in Paris suburb attack - source (Updated)

August 23rd, 2018 By Emmanuel Jarry A knifeman killed his mother and sister in the Paris suburb of Trappes on Thursday and seriously wounded a third person, a French Interior Ministry source said. The young man, who killed his victims out in the street before taking refuge in a house, was later shot dead by police when he left that house and ran...
Police find getaway car, hunt two after Paris Ritz jewel heist Europe

Police find getaway car, hunt two after Paris Ritz jewel heist

January 11th, 2018 French police on Thursday sought two men after finding the getaway car used by a gang of axe-wielding thieves who snatched jewellery from a store in the upscale Paris Ritz hotel. Three hooded thieves carried out the robbery late on Wednesday at the ultra-chic hotel on the city centre's Place Vendome, next to the Justice...
Armed robbers steal millions from Ritz Paris hotel Europe

Armed robbers steal millions from Ritz Paris hotel

January 11th, 2018 Axe-wielding robbers stole jewellery on Wednesday possibly worth more than $5 million from a store in the famed Ritz Paris hotel, police said. Five thieves carried out the heist at the luxury hotel in late afternoon. Three were arrested while two others got away. There were no injuries. "The loss is very high and remains to be...
Anastasiades visits Louvre Cyprus

Anastasiades visits Louvre

November 6th, 2017 President Nicos Anastasiades, who on an official visit to Paris with the First Lady and a delegation, on Monday visited the Louvre, and specifically the Cypriot collection housed there. The collection includes Neolithic and Bronze Age antiquities and contains the giant Amathus vessel, which dates back to the 6th century BC and it is...
‘Anastasiades’ Paris visit important for bilateral ties’ Cyprus

‘Anastasiades’ Paris visit important for bilateral ties’

November 2nd, 2017 The upcoming visit by President Nicos Anastasiades to Paris is important as France and Cyprus have a very close and strong relationship both at a bilateral level and as EU member states, French ambassador René Troccaz said on Thursday. Troccaz told the Cyprus News Agency that Anastasiades’ working visit to Paris on Monday will see...
Police hold five over wired explosives found in posh Paris area Global terrorism

Police hold five over wired explosives found in posh Paris area

October 3rd, 2017 French counter-terrorism investigators questioned five people on Tuesday after police over the weekend found what appeared to be a ready-to-detonate bomb at an apartment building in one of Paris's poshest neighbourhoods. Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said one of those arrested was on an intelligence services list of "radicalised"...
Soldier attacked in Paris, terrorism probe opened (Update) Europe

Soldier attacked in Paris, terrorism probe opened (Update)

September 15th, 2017 France opened a counter-terrorism inquiry after a man wielding a knife attacked a soldier in a Paris subway station on Friday, the latest incident targeting troops protecting the capital's transport hubs and tourist sites. Paris and other European capitals are on high alert after a wave of attacks in past years by Islamist militants,...
Ice-cool Froome on brink of fourth Tour triumph Sport

Ice-cool Froome on brink of fourth Tour triumph

July 22nd, 2017 Chris Froome kept his composure in a hostile environment as he virtually secured a fourth Tour de France title after extending his overall lead with a good showing in Saturday’s 22.5-km time trial through the streets of Marseille. The Briton was booed by the crowd in the Stade Velodrome -- where the penultimate stage started and...
Bastille Day march-past closes Trump's Paris visit Europe

Bastille Day march-past closes Trump's Paris visit

July 14th, 2017 President Donald Trump watched US and French soldiers march together through the Paris sunshine on Friday in a double celebration marking 100 years since the United States entered World War One and France's annual Bastille Day holiday. The occasion, also featuring a bi-national fly-past of fighter jets symbolising military...
Police evict thousands of migrants from north Paris sidewalks Europe

Police evict thousands of migrants from north Paris sidewalks

July 7th, 2017 French police evicted thousands of migrants living on sidewalks in an area of northern Paris as dawn broke on Friday - many of them people who fled war or strife in countries as far away as Sudan, Eritrea and Afghanistan. Dozens of police and white police vans moved in at around 5 a.m. (0300 GMT) to clear the area where Paris City...
Pars' Gare du Nord reopens after fruitless hunt for militants Global terrorism

Pars' Gare du Nord reopens after fruitless hunt for militants

May 9th, 2017 Paris' Gare du Nord - one of the French capital's main railway stations - reopened on Tuesday after police evacuated it late on Monday to search a high-speed train for suspected militants. On high alert due to a spate of Islamist attacks and Sunday's presidential election, police mounted a large-scale operation in response to a...
France mobilised for election security after attack (Update) Europe

France mobilised for election security after attack (Update)

April 21st, 2017 France said its security forces were fully mobilised for a presidential election at the weekend after the killing of a policeman by an Islamist militant threw a dark shadow over the last day of an unpredictable campaign. With the first round of voting in the two-stage election due to take place on Sunday, centrist Emmanuel Macron...
Islamic State claims Paris shooting, one policeman killed Global terrorism

Islamic State claims Paris shooting, one policeman killed

April 21st, 2017 A French policeman was shot dead and two others were wounded in central Paris on Thursday night in an attack carried out days before presidential elections and quickly claimed by the Islamic State militant group. President Francois Hollande said he was convinced the "cowardly killing" on the Champs Elysees boulevard, in which the...
Scuffles, tear gas as anti-police protests reach Paris Europe

Scuffles, tear gas as anti-police protests reach Paris

February 16th, 2017 Anti-police protests in the aftermath of alleged police brutality in a Paris suburb earlier this month descended into violence in the French capital on Wednesday night. The protests, which have led to over 200 arrests around France, follow allegations that a young man arrested on Feb. 2 was beaten and raped with a police baton. An...
French police protest against attacks, inadequate resources World

French police protest against attacks, inadequate resources

October 19th, 2016 French police officers staged a second night of protests overnight and booed their boss to decry anti-police violence and what they say are insufficient resources to combat criminal gangs as well as the threat of further terrorist attacks. Defying warnings of disciplinary action, hundreds of officers demonstrated in Marseille, Nice...
Kim Kardashian sues gossip website over reports of staged robbery World

Kim Kardashian sues gossip website over reports of staged robbery

October 11th, 2016 Reality television star Kim Kardashian sued the celebrity gossip website MediaTakeout on Tuesday for claiming that she lied about an armed robbery earlier this month in Paris. Kardashian, whose show Keeping Up With the Kardashians is on hold following the robbery, filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York accusing the site of...
Montenegrin admits to smuggling arms to Paris on eve of Islamist attacks World

Montenegrin admits to smuggling arms to Paris on eve of Islamist attacks

September 23rd, 2016 A Montenegrin caught in Germany with a car full of weapons a week before November's Islamist attacks in Paris confessed at the start of his trial on Friday to acting as a gun runner, but denied knowing what was planned with the arsenal. The man in his early 50s, named by prosecutors only as Vlatko V., was stopped by police on November...
Britain complains after Hungary says migrants make London a 'no-go' area World

Britain complains after Hungary says migrants make London a 'no-go' area

September 22nd, 2016 Britain has raised concerns with Hungary over a description of areas of London, Paris and Brussels as 'no-go' areas dominated by illegal immigrants who increase the risk of militant attacks. Ahead of an October 2 referendum on whether to reject European Union migrant quotas, Hungary released an official leaflet setting out the...
UN expects 20 more nations to join Paris climate deal next week World

UN expects 20 more nations to join Paris climate deal next week

September 16th, 2016 At least 20 countries have indicated they will join the Paris climate change agreement at a United Nations event on September 21, adding to the 27 that have already done so and raising hopes the deal will enter into force by the end of 2016, UN officials said. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited states to deposit their...
Arrested militants planned attack on Paris railway station, France says World

Arrested militants planned attack on Paris railway station, France says

September 9th, 2016 Three women arrested in connection with a car loaded with gas cylinders found in a side road near Notre Dame cathedral had been planning an attack on a Paris railway station, the French interior ministry said. "An alert has been issued to all stations but they had planned to attack the Gare de Lyon on Thursday," a ministry official...
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