Author: John Leicester
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Barcelona’s victims: A snapshot of the world
PARIS — The dead and injured in Barcelona were a snapshot of the world — men, women and children from nearly three dozen nations — testifying to the huge global appeal of the sun-kissed city. Families, friends and government officials from Paris to Sydney, San Francisco to Berlin scrambled Friday to discover whether their loved…
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Aru beats Froome in first mountain stage of Tour
CHAMPAGNEY, France — In an impressive show of strength, Italy’s Fabio Aru has beaten three-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome to the top of the first mountain climb of this year’s race, winning Stage 5. Aru powered away from Froome and other top riders with a burst of acceleration on the sharp ascent to…
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Peter Sagan disqualified for causing Mark Cavendish to crash, withdraw from Tour de France due to injury
VITTEL, France – Mark Cavendish has been forced out of the Tour de France after suffering a fractured shoulder blade in a serious crash caused by world champion Peter Sagan, who was disqualified from cycling’s showcase event. Hours after Tuesday’s crash in a chaotic sprint finish to Stage 4, Cavendish’s Team Dimension Data said on…
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US prepares to ban laptops on flights from Europe
BRUSSELS — The U.S. is expected to broaden its ban on in-flight laptops and tablets to include planes from the European Union, a move that would create logistical chaos on the world’s busiest corridor of air travel. Alarmed at the proposal, which airline officials say is merely a matter of timing, European governments held urgent…
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Centrist Emmanuel Macron becomes France’s youngest president
PARIS — Ripping up France’s political map, French voters elected centrist Emmanuel Macron as the country’s youngest president ever Sunday, delivering a resounding victory to the unabashedly pro-European former investment banker and strengthening France’s place as a central pillar of the European Union. A jubilant crowd of Macron supporters roared with delight at the news,…
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Man killed after trying to grab Paris airport soldier’s gun
ORLY, France — Soldiers at Paris’ busy Orly Aiport shot and killed a man who wrestled one of their colleagues to the ground and tried to steal her rifle Saturday, officials said. Thousands of travelers were evacuated and at least 15 flights were diverted to the city’s other airport, Charles de Gaulle. No one else…
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Soldiers thwart attack on Louvre, tourists held in lockdown
PARIS — Paris was plunged into panic — again — when soldiers guarding the Louvre Museum shot an attacker who lunged at them with two machetes on Friday and shouted “Allahu Akbar!” as the historic landmark went into lockdown. The threat appeared to quickly recede after the assailant was subdued, but it cast a new…
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Opinion: Finally, Armstrong’s teammates do good
PARIS — Lance Armstrong once said the extraordinary accusations that he doped needed to be backed by extraordinary evidence. Well, the evidence is more extraordinary than anyone could possibly have imagined. Page after page of evidence teased out of former U.S. Postal Service teammates and corroborated by affidavits that washed away the lies, the mythmaking,…
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ONE LAST TIME
Friends of a decorated Navy SEAL who died rescuing a Colorado Springs doctor in Afghanistan on Saturday remembered him as a strong student who had his heart set on joining the military. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Nicolas D. Checque, 28, of Monroeville, Pa., died from a single gunshot wound to the head in the…