Alissa J. Rubin
Dec. 1, 2018 New York Times
PARIS — A third week of anti-government protests intensified in violence on Saturday, as demonstrators burned cars, smashed windows and confronted riot police firing tear gas in the heart of Paris in the most serious crisis of President Emmanuel Macron’s administration.
The ‘‘Yellow Vest’’ protests — spurred by a hike in the gasoline tax, and named for the roadside safety vests worn by the demonstrators — Read Article
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Tourist killed by falling masonry/debris at famous Florence church theguardian.comDeath of Spaniard struck in Basilica di Santa Croce raises questions about state of Italy’s ageing and fragile monuments A 52-year-old tourist from Spain has been killed by falling masonry in one of Florence’s most famous churches, the Basilica di Santa Croce. The fatal accident at […]
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theguardian.com reported a British woman, believed to have been mauled to death by a pack of wild dogs in northern Greece, has been identified as Celia Lois Hollingworth. Greek police investigating the incident confirmed the dismembered body of the 63-year-old Briton were found at the weekend. “A shoe, bag, hat and passport were discovered by […]
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POLICE in Mallorca are looking for three men after a 19-year-old Scottish female claimed she was gang-raped on a beach in Magaluf. rtnnewspaper.com / Though police have been given a photo of one of the men who allegedly attacked the teen, a spokesman for the Guardia Civil confirmed that they were yet to make any […]
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abcnews.go.com / A Congolese asylum-hopeful with permission to stay in Italy for humanitarian reasons was nabbed aboard a train by police early Sunday as the last of a gang of four young males suspected of raping a Polish tourist on a beach, beating her companion unconscious and raping a Peruvian woman barely an hour later […]
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ETRUBO NEWS – The US has extended a European travel alert for its citizens, warning that terrorists continue to focus on tourist sites as attack targets, and that those traveling to the continent should “exercise additional vigilance” around such areas. The alert, issued Thursday, cites “widely reported incidents” in France, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, […]
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Police call for public to help find missing tourist bus Authorities don’t think theft connected to a terror plot, but they’re not taking any chances Police in Copenhagen have reached out to the public to help find the missing Belgian tourist bus stolen late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning. The police said the theft looks ordinary […]
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romania-insider.com – A German tourist has died in Romania’s Piatra Craiului Mountains after suffering a heart attack and falling off a cliff, reports local Mediafax. He had to be taken out by helicopter. Ioan Pivoda, the head of the mountain rescue department in Zarnesti, told local Mediafax that the heart attack killed the 67-year-old German […]
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A 59-year-old Romanian-born Australian citizen died on August 30 in a paragliding accident in the area of the Borsa ski slope, in Northern Romania Maramures county, Mediafax reported. The Police is looking into the causes of the accident. The paramedics from the Maramures Ambulance Service (SAJ) performed CPR maneuvers for 40 minutes, after which they […]
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A KNIFEMAN slashed a police officer the neck in the Swedish capital Stockholm this morning. thescottishsun.co.uk / A massive emergency response rushed to Medborgarplatsen Square — one of the largest in the city — at around 10:30am local time Cops arrested one suspect and confirmed a colleague was injured. “It seems to be a completely […]
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