PARIS, (APP/AFP) – The rain-swollen River Seine in Paris reached its highest level in three decades Friday, spilling its banks and prompting the Louvre museum to shut its doors and evacuate artworks in its basement. Parisians were urged to avoid the banks of the river which was expected to reach a peak of six metres […]
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Paris on alert as swollen Seine reaches peak levels
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France puts Israel-Palestinian conflict back in focus
PARIS, (APP/AFP) – France prepared to host talks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Friday that have received a cool response from Washington, but diplomats say merely shining the spotlight onto the stalemate is a victory. After decades of failed negotiations, few believe the climate is right to bring together Israelis and Palestinians for another shot at […]
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IS fighters in northern Syria ‘aspire’ to foreign plots: Pentagon chief
SINGAPORE, (APP/AFP) – Islamic State jihadists in the strategic northern Syria town of Manbij “aspire” to directing international terror plots, US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said Friday. Anti-IS fighters known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed alliance of Kurds and Arabs, this week launched an offensive to capture Manbij. The town is on the […]
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Direct Israel-Palestinian talks ‘don’t work’: French FM
PARIS, (APP/AFP) – French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, who is hosting an international meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Friday, said direct talks between the two parties “do not work”. “Currently everything is blocked. We don’t want to act in the place of the Israelis and Palestinians but we want to help them,” he told France […]
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Jailed ex-president’s daughter favorite to lead Peru
LIMA, (APP/AFP) – Peruvians vote Sunday on whether Keiko Fujimori, daughter of an ex-president jailed for massacres, will be their new leader. Polls show Fujimori, 41, is favored to win the runoff against former Wall Street banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, 77. Many Peruvians mistrust Keiko Fujimori because her father Alberto is in jail for corruption […]
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US judge ponders $50m Manhattan bail for Turkish mogul
NEW YORK, (APP/AFP) – Should a Turkish gold mogul, arrested en route to Disney World with his superstar singer wife and five-year-old daughter, be released on a $50 million bond with armed security guards in a lavish Manhattan apartment? That is the question a US federal judge is pondering with respect to 33-year-old Iranian-Turkish businessman […]