Category : Paris
Champs-Élysées to be given makeover before Paris Olympic Games
‘World’s most beautiful avenue’ in French capital will undergo urgent cosmetic changes after years of decline On paper and in urban legend, the Champs-Élysées is...
Paris booksellers angry at plans to ‘hide’ their stalls during Olympics
About 60% of bouquinistes along the Seine River will be moved on during the Games next year for security reasons Booksellers in Paris have hit...
France riots live: Macron cancels Germany trip as additional 45,000 police to be deployed
Funeral for Nahel, killed by police on Tuesday, held near Paris on Saturday afternoon More than 1,000 people were arrested in the fourth night of...
France riots live: funeral held for teenager after more than 1,300 arrested at protests
Large crowd gathered at cemetery near Paris as Nahel, killed by police on Tuesday, is laid to rest More than 1,000 people were arrested in...
French court’s approval of Olympics AI surveillance plan fuels privacy concerns
Rights groups including Amnesty and Human Rights Watch call proposals ‘a dangerous precedent’ in open letter France’s top constitutional court has sanctioned the controversial use...
‘Twice as determined’: hundreds of thousands protest in Paris against pension reform – video report
Strike action has again heated up in Paris as demonstrators protested against Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular plan to raise France’s minimum pension age from 62 to...
Paris breathes easier as refuse workers’ strike called off and rubbish cleared
City is cleaner, though not yet entirely clean, after three-week strike ends but union threatens more action The smell of spring is in the air...
French protesters and police clash in marches against pension changes
Police use teargas and water cannon against hooded protesters on the margins in some cities Protesters and police clashed on the edges of street demonstrations...
Workers block Paris airport terminal as pension protests continue in France
Charles de Gaulle airport targeted, trains disrupted and some schools shut in nationwide day of action French workers angry with a rise in the pension...
