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PARIS: French rail operator SNCF has scrapped plans for a controversial expansion of Europe's busiest train station, the Gare du Nord in Paris, with the government urging Wednesday a "much smaller project" after cost estimates ballooned. The overhaul would have tripled the size of the station - site of the…

Published: 5:00pm, 22 Oct, 2021 Updated: 10:19pm, 22 Oct, 2021 Read More

Thales to supply Vodafone Group with eco-designed SIM cards made from recycled refrigerators. Millions of subscribers in Europe and Africa set to benefit from eco-responsible innovation. PARIS, France, 21 October 2021,-/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Thales to supply Vodafone Group with Eco-SIM; a product whose card body is made out of 100% recycled…

WARSAW, Poland — A powerful autumn storm blasted across parts of Europe on Thursday, killing four people in Poland and causing damage and disruption across a large swath of the continent. According to reports in Polish media, the hardest-hit area was around the western city of Wroclaw, where powerful gusts…

Dar es Salaam — France yesterday launched a new flight that will see passengers travel direct from the French capital Paris to Tanzania's archipelago Zanzibar. The launch was officiated by the French Minister for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness Franck Riester when he landed in Zanzibar with the direct flight…

Historians and activists in France have expressed disappointment that President Emmanuel Macron did not go further in his condemnation of the deadly crackdown in 1961 by Paris police on protest by Algerians, the scale of which was covered up for decades. The president “recognised the facts: that the crimes committed…

PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of people, including Algerian protesters and their descendants, on Sunday commemorated the 60th anniversary of a bloody police crackdown in Paris during the final year of Algeria’s independence war with its colonial power. The tribute march was organized in Paris to honor the victims of the…

Published: 11:16am, 17 Oct, 2021 Updated: 11:15am, 17 Oct, 2021 Read More

French president denounces the ‘unforgivable crime’ committed against protesting Algerians by French police in 1961. President Emmanuel Macron has condemned as “inexcusable” a deadly crackdown by Paris police on a 1961 protest by Algerians, the scale of which was covered up for decades by French authorities. Speaking at the Saturday…

French President Emmanuel Macron lays a wreath near the Pont de de Bezons, Bezons bridge, during a ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the massacre of October 17, 1961, a murderous repression by the French police, of a demonstration of Algerians in Paris, in the frame of a violent decolonisation…