City authorities in Paris won a final court challenge on Thursday against rules that restrict the use of properties for short-term holiday rentals in a victory likely to encourage other European cities.
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PARIS (AFP) — “Everything went smoothly” — a 67-year-old man awaiting trial for the robbery of reality star Kim Kardashian
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Paris City Hall has instructed the landlord seeking to close down the city’s indebted Fan Museum to extend its deadline for payment, the museum said Monday.
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Paris’s famed Champs-Elysees avenue is to be given a green makeover to transform it into what the mayor says will be an “extraordinary garden.”
Read moreA probe into rape allegations against a former deputy mayor of Paris has been dropped because the alleged offense has been ruled to fall under the statute of limitations, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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France’s interior minister ordered an internal police investigation Tuesday after officers were filmed tossing migrants out of tents while evacuating a protest camp in Paris.
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Thieves have taken some 600,000 euros worth of high-end goods from the Paris home of a Saudi princess, a source close to the case said on Friday.
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More than half the people living in extreme poverty in the Paris region, in particular migrants, have been infected with the new coronavirus, the French aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Tuesday.
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French terrorism authorities are investigating a knife attack that wounded at least two people Friday near the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, authorities said. A suspect has been arrested.
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In yet another blow to Airbnb, the EU’s top court ruled Tuesday that affordable-housing interests justify limits in Paris on short-term rentals.
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The Paris city hall has been charged with involuntary manslaughter over a massive gas explosion in the French capital last year that killed four people, including two firefighters, judicial sources said Tuesday.
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The Quai d’Orsay art museum in Paris has apologized to a woman after agents refused to let her in until she covered up a low-cut dress.
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Paris authorities made a last-minute about-turn Friday on a new requirement for universal mask-wearing, exempting cyclists and joggers from the otherwise blanket outdoors obligation.
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Coronavirus took a terrible toll on an icon of French culture — the corner bistro — but it will survive, says chef and restaurateur Alain Fontaine.
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Italian police said Wednesday they had retrieved a work by famed street artist Banksy commemorating the victims of the November 2015 Paris terror attacks stolen from the Bataclan concert hall.
Read moreWith France confined to fight the coronavirus, a video circulated online in April showing a bloodied young man lying on the ground next to two police officers — and quickly set off protests in struggling neighborhoods around the Paris region.
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LUXEMBOURG (CN) — Vying to combat the city’s housing crunch, a limit on Airbnb rentals in Paris should stand, a
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French judges have ordered 20 people to stand trial over the coordinated attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in November 2015, including Salah Abdeslam, the only suspected assailant still alive, prosecutors said Monday.
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Paris Opera has lost more than $13.3 million in a month-long strike by ballet dancers fighting to cling onto pension rights that date back to the “Sun King” Louis XIV.
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Notre Dame Cathedral is unable to host Christmas services for the first time since the French Revolution, because the Paris landmark was too deeply damaged by this year’s fire.
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