According to Le Parisien, a Moroccan woman is dead and a dozen other people were injured, one seriously, in a collision Monday between a bus carrying Moroccan nationals to Italy and a small truck on the A8 motorway at Saint- Maximin (Var), it was learned from the police. The bus was carrying 56 Moroccans living in Italy who returned from Morocco, said firefighters. Read article
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According to The Local Germany, a German woman was killed when a small motorboat capsized in the Gulf of Morbihan off the western coast of France, officials said on Sunday. The 4.75-metre boat carrying the woman, a man and two children, all German nationals, capsized late Saturday afternoon in the natural harbour, according to a […]
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According to a Financial Times report, Chinese visitors are descending on Paris in record numbers and their lavish spending on luxury brands has made them an irresistible target for thieves. Petty crime between January and the end of June in one of the world’s most-visited cities jumped 7.8 per cent compared with the same period […]
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According to leif.be, a German bus carrying 55 people crashed into the back of a truck in the night from Friday to Saturday, on the A6, in Saône-et-Loire, killing two and causing four serious injuries, which we learned from the firefighters and the prefecture. The two dead were the bus driver and a companion, said […]
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Thelocal.fr reports that a British woman has died after a fall while walking at high altitude in the French Alps, police said on Wednesday. The 52-year-old woman, who was walking alone at the time, appeared to have lost her footing on a narrow path leading to the top of the Col de Vaurze in the […]
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RFI reports that a tour bus has crashed through a barrier and overturned in southern France, killing two tourists and injuring 30 others. Police say the Eurolines bus carrying 44 passengers was travelling from Marseille to Murcie in Spain when it broke through the crash barrier and overturned on a highway near Fitou, in the […]
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Foxnews.com reported that, France’s famous Eiffel Tower has reopened after being evacuated of all tourists and staff Friday, due to a bomb alert. Reuters is reporting that hundreds of tourists evacuated the 1,062-foot iron tower around 2 p.m. (12:30 GMT ) in response to a bomb scare, according to police. But investigators found it to […]
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Thelocal.fr reports that three people have died after a tourist plane crashed at around 9.40 am on Thursday in the central department of Puy-de-Dome, according to French media reports. The victims included a brother and sister, according to AFP, and were all aged over 70. The aircraft went down in a field in the town […]
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Stuff.co.nz reports that France has said it will work harder to safeguard tourists in Paris after a spate of muggings of Asian visitors made such headlines in China that the Chinese embassy demanded action. Interior and Tourism Ministers Manuel Valls and Sylvia Pinel said on a tour of the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower that […]
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As reported by Cbc.ca, France is closing its embassy in Yemen on Sunday, which follows in the wake of the United States, which issued a global travel alert yesterday citing an al-Qaeda threat. That alert also caused the State Department to announce it would close its embassies this Sunday around the Muslim world. Read Article
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