Author: Angela Charlton
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Vehicle hits soldiers in Paris suburb, injuring 6
PARIS — The Latest on an attack on soldiers in a Paris suburb (all times local): 2:10 p.m. French officials say police have arrested a man on a highway north of Paris in the search for a driver who rammed his car into soldiers. Two officials said it is too early to say for certain…
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2 more arrests in Nice truck attack; 49 dead still not ID’d
NICE, France — French authorities detained two more people Sunday and released the estranged wife of the slain Nice truck attacker from custody as they tried to determine whether he had been an Islamic extremist or just a very angry man. The Bastille Day carnage wrought by Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel on the seafront of this…
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EU to Britain: No access to single market without migration
BRUSSELS — European Union leaders spelled out stark conditions for a new relationship with a departing Britain on Wednesday, warning that if British business wants to keep access to Europe’s single market, the country must accept European workers, too. The leaders produced no clear rehaul for their shaken union after an unusual and emotionally charged…
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9 dead, 4 missing in Mont Blanc avalanche
CHAMONIX, France – A climber trying to scale Mont Blanc may accidentally have caused a slab of ice to snap off Thursday high in the French Alps, sparking an avalanche that swept nine European climbers to their deaths, authorities said. A dozen climbers were injured and two were still missing by nightfall. As a sheet…
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9 dead, 4 missing in Mont Blanc avalanche
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CHAMONIX, France – A climber trying to scale Mont Blanc may accidentally have caused a slab of ice to snap off Thursday high in the French Alps, sparking an avalanche that swept nine European climbers…
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Photos show extent of ash’s fallout in uncertain Europe
PARIS — The Icelandic volcano that has kept much of Europe land-bound is far from finished spitting out its grit, and offered up new mini-eruptions that raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade. Facing days to come under the volcano’s unpredictable, ashy plume, Europeans are looking at temporary airport layoffs and…
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Officials: No black box signals from Flight 447
PARIS – French military ships searching for the black boxes of Flight 447 have detected sounds in the Atlantic depths but they are not from the Air France plane’s flight recorders, French officials said Tuesday. The officials and French investigators denied a report on the Web site of the French newspaper Le Monde that French…
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Viticultural sea change
AY, FRANCE – Fruity merlot from Siberia? Not so fast, say vintners from Champagne to California. As global warming threatens to change the land vintners have relied on – sometimes for centuries – established wine-growing regions around the world are deploying techniques old and new to adapt. The goal: to stay competitive as progressively hotter…
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Bank: Trader gambled with tens of billions
Phillip Elson, right, for years thought his brother’s ashes were spread atop Pikes Peak. He later found out that Neva Nolan of the Nolan Funeral Home had put them in a storage shed. Former clients of the funeral home were in the courthouse Friday. Photo by (CAROL LAWRENCE, THE GAZETTE)