Author: Angela Charlton
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2 firefighters killed in Paris bakery blast; dozens injured
PARIS — French authorities said two firefighters were killed and 47 people injured in a powerful explosion and fire apparently caused by a gas leak at a Paris bakery Saturday that blasted out windows and overturned cars. Firefighters pulled injured victims from windows and evacuated residents as smoke billowed over Rue de Trevise in the…
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Riot in Paris: 135 hurt in protests; 1,000 detained
PARIS — The rumble of armored police trucks and the hiss of tear gas filled central Paris on Saturday, as French riot police fought to contain thousands of yellow-vested protesters venting their anger against the government in a movement that has grown more violent by the week. A ring of steel surrounded the president’s Elysee…
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Macron, France bracing for more riots
PARIS • Authorities across France braced Thursday for the possibility of more riots and violence at anti-government protests this weekend, holding emergency meetings and deploying tens of thousands of police and security forces. Museums, theaters and shops in Paris announced they would close Saturday as a precaution — including the city’s famed Eiffel Tower. Police…
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Israel accuses Iran of ‘secret atomic warehouse’
UNITED NATIONS • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran on Thursday of keeping a “secret atomic warehouse” just outside its capital, despite the 2015 deal with world powers that was meant to keep it from obtaining nuclear weapons. Holding up a poster-board map of an area near Tehran as he spoke at the U.N.…
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Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain dies in apparent suicide
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save PARIS — Anthony Bourdain, the celebrity chef and citizen of the world who inspired millions to share his delight in food and the bonds it created, was found dead in his hotel room Friday in…
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Islam scholar Tariq Ramadan charged with suspected rape
Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan delivers a speech during a French Muslim organizations meeting in Lille, northern France, on Feb.7, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler) Michel Spingler Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan delivers a speech during a French Muslim organizations meeting in Lille, northern France, on Feb.7, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler) Michel Spingler
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French towns swim in floodwaters that are rising in Paris
VILLENNES-SUR-SEINE, France — Floodwaters have transformed the streets of scenic French towns into mucky canals, swallowed up picturesque parks and drained the demand for river boat cruises through Paris. And the waters are still rising. Swollen by weeks of heavy rains, the Seine river is expected to reach its peak in the French capital late…
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New blow for Uber as top EU court says it’s a taxi company
BARCELONA, Spain — Ride-hailing service Uber suffered a new blow Wednesday as the European Union’s top court ruled that it should be regulated like a taxi company and not a technology service, a decision that crimps its activities around Europe and could weigh on other app-based companies too. Uber, which is wrapping up a particularly…
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Airbus notches win over rival Boeing with Bombardier deal
PARIS – Airbus scored a point in its high-stakes rivalry with Boeing by striking a deal just across the U.S. border. The European plane maker reached an unusual, no-cost deal with Canada’s Bombardier that sent Airbus shares up Tuesday, boosts both companies’ prospects in Asia and should save thousands of Bombardier jobs from Quebec to…
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Kate Millett, feminist author of ‘Sexual Politics,’ dies
PARIS — Kate Millett, the activist, artist and educator whose best-selling work “Sexual Politics” was a landmark of cultural criticism and a manifesto for the modern feminist movement, has died at 82. Millett’s book was among the most talked-about works of its time and remains a founding text for cultural and gender studies programs. Her…