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- A demonstrator runs on the third night of protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, France, Friday, June 30, 2023. After more than 3,400 arrests and signs that the violence is now abating, France is once again facing a reckoning. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)
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'Liberty, equality, fraternity' for all? New riots make France confront an old problem
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Tue,07/04/23-5:47AM , 750 Reads
PARIS (AP) — “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”: The lofty ideals to which France has long aspired are embossed on coins and carved above school doors across the land.
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- The Volocopter 2X, an electric vertical takeoff and landing multicopter, performs a demonstration flight during the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, north of Paris, France, Monday, June 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)
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Up, up and away — flying taxis look to France's city of revolution to unleash change on the skies
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Thu,06/22/23-12:56AM , 500 Reads
LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Just a dot on the horizon at first, the bug-like and surprisingly quiet electrically-powered craft buzzes over Paris and its traffic snarls, treating its doubtless awestruck passenger to privileged vistas of the Eiffel Tower and the city's signature zinc-grey rooftops before landing him or her with a gentle downward hov
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- Residents in shock after brutal attack in France
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France hails 'hero with a backpack' who intervened in knife attack on very young children
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Fri,06/09/23-2:49AM , 594 Reads
LE PECQ, France (AP) — The attacker slashed at the 24-year-old Catholic pilgrim with the knife that he used to savagely stab one young child after another.
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- An attacker with a knife stabbed several very young children and at least one adult, leaving some with life-threatening injuries, in a lakeside park in a town in the French Alps on Thursday before he was arrested, authorities said. (June 8)
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Knife attack at park in French Alps critically wounds 4 young children as people cry for help
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Thu,06/08/23-3:50AM , 241 Reads
PARIS (AP) — As bystanders screamed for help, a man with a knife stabbed four young children at a lakeside park in the French Alps on Thursday, assaulting at least one in a stroller repeatedly. Authorities said the children, between 22 months and 3 years old, suffered life-threatening injuries, and two adults were also wounded.
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