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FRANCE: Debate swirls as Paris embraces video surveillance

Julien PEYRON — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:56:18 +0000

A debate over surveillance cameras is raging in Paris, where police are in the process of establishing a widespread system of “video protection”. Is it a necessary security measure or a needless infringement of civil liberties?

Wildlife: Giant pandas ‘Happy’ and ‘Chubby’ arrive in Paris

News Wires — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:47:04 +0000

After years of tense negotiations between China and France, two giant pandas landed in Paris on Sunday. The bears have been loaned to Beauval zoo in the Loire region for ten years as part of China’s “panda diplomacy”.

DR CONGO: Head of DR Congo Senate attacked in Paris

News Wires — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:08:11 +0000

DR Congo’s Senate chief and former presidential candidate Leon Kengo (pictured) was attacked at a Paris train station on Saturday, allegedly by supporters of opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, the Congolese government said on Sunday.

France: Founder of iconic Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company dies

Joseph BAMAT — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:16:19 +0000

George Whitman, the founder of Paris’s most famous English-language bookstore, died Wednesday aged 98. For sixty years his shop has been a magnet for literary greats, aspiring writers and book lovers.

FRANCE: Banning prostitution in France will ‘endanger lives’

Ben MCPARTLAND — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:13:25 +0000

A controversial move by French lawmakers to prohibit prostitution by targeting those who pay for sex will put the lives of prostitutes in danger, organizations representing sex workers told FRANCE 24 this week.

UK – FRANCE: Parisians celebrate return of Marks & Spencer

News Wires — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:08:02 +0000

A decade after abruptly pulling out of the French market, quintessentially British supermarket Marks & Spencer returned on Friday with the grand opening of a store on the Champs Elysées in Paris, attracting a queue of hundreds of people.

FRANCE: Remembering the Paris massacre 50 years on

Rachel HOLMAN — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:00:57 +0000

Protesters gathered in central Paris to mark fifty years since a deadly police crackdown on Algerian anti-war protesters, one of the darkest days in modern French history.

FRANCE: Unemployed man holds hostages at Paris job center

FRANCE 24 (with wires) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:36:14 +0000

A man claiming to be an unemployed computer technician entered a Parisian job center Monday and took the director and deputy director of the job center hostage, according to police sources.

FRANCE: Paris launches Autolib’ electric car-hire scheme

Tony Todd — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:07:39 +0000

Paris is gearing up for a quiet revolution. All-electric Autolib’ cars, based on the success of the city’s Vélib’ bike-sharing scheme, will begin to appear on the streets of the capital in December.

CONTEMPORARY ART: Paris celebrates tenth year of ‘all-nighter’ art party

Joseph BAMAT — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:28:45 +0000

The all-night Parisian art festival ‘Nuit Blanche’ is turning ten on Saturday, with interactive installations, music, dancing and illuminations to please the city’s sleepless residents and visitors.