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A minute's silence has been observed at police headquarters in Paris today in memory of the four staff members who died in a knife attack
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Paris attacks-An urgent enquiry has been launched after 4 people were killed and several more injured after a man went berserk at Paris police headquarters on Thursday.
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Four staff at police headquarters in central Paris have died after being stabbed
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The City Hall of La Turbie, the Côte d’Azur Committee of the French Swimming Federation and the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation has announced that all proceeds raised by today’s Princess of Monaco Cup taking place at the Monte Carlo Golf club with a celebrity line up, will go towards renovating the public swimming pool at La Turbie.
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According to a recent survey nearly nine out of ten French people support the mobilization of the emergency services and firefighters in France.
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A group of women from the Las Planas neighbourhood in Nice have called on other residents in the area to speak out about the current drug trafficking network operating in and around the estate.
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The tramline in Nice has come to a standstill after a passenger suffered a cardiac arrest on Wednesday.
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A 20-year-old man has died after being shot in Gattières in the arriere pays of Nice last night
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The American actress and director Jodie Foster will participate in the screening of a documentary, tomorrow October 3rd, in which she participated, on the life of the director Alice Guy Blaché, pioneer of world cinema.
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The Monegasque institute of statistics and economic studies has been asked by the “Committee for the promotion and protection of Women’s Rights” to carry out two studies in the Principality, one focusing on violence against women in the Principality; the other on the pay gap between men and women in Monegasque companies.
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The “Princess of Monaco Cup” is taking place at the Monte-Carlo Golf Club on October 3rd. The evening is in support of the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation.
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Traffic has come to a standstill this morning on the RD2 at Signes in the Var following a collision between a school bus and a car.
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A little more than a year after the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa, which left 43 dead, a 50-meter stretch of the new viaduct designed by Renzo Piano has been laid.
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A 47 year old drug user has been convicted of manslaughter by a court in Nice
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The head of the family planning centre o in Menton has requested that a large bronze sculpture entitled "Notre Dame des Innocents" which has been installed in one of the gardens of the Grand Hotel des Ambassadeurs in Menton be removed.
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As with every first of the month several changes have been announced from today in France including a drop in the price of gas, lifts to become mandatory in new buildings which have at least three floors, a reduction in employers contributions, new legal measures for performing arts entrepreneurs declaring themselves directly to the Ministry of Culture, all invoicing will
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Environmental activists have covered the Louvre’s glass pyramid with thick black treacle in protest at what they said were the environmentally damaging activities of museum sponsor Total.
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The Swedish store Ikea has recalled a baby product due to a choking risk. All customers who have purchased a set of two MATVRA baby bibs blue and red have been asked to stop using them and to return them to the store.
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The Prefect of the Var has described the number of deaths on the Department’s roads in September as “tragic”.
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Weather authorities have warned that hurricane Lorenzo the largest and most powerful hurricane to have made it so far east in the Atlantic is likely to hit Europe.
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The pollution caused by the Lubrizol factory fire in Rouen has had an impact on agricultural production and crops in the surrounding area.
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The union “South Education" has referred to the one-minute silence to be observed in French schools today, as a tribute to former French President Jacques Chirac, as “indecent”.
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US retailer CVS has become the latest to suspend the sale of a heartburn drug being investigated for links to cancer. The move comes after concern in several countries over the presence of impurities in Zantac and other ranitidine products
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British artist David Hockney has moved from Los Angeles to Normandy for “its relaxed way of life”.
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Full scale tests of “self driving” vehicles on public French roads will take place next year. 20 towns and cities are signed up to be among the first with the new technology.
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There have been several delays on the regions roads reported this morning with several blackspots on the A8 motorway between Mandelieu-la-Napoule and Saint-Laurent-du-Var.
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A 30-year-old man has drowned on the Promenade des anglais in Nice. The incident occurred after the swimmer got into difficulty on Sunday afternoon shortly after 3pm.
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