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“I Thought They Were Terrorists”: The Night Robbers Took Kim Kardashian Hostage In Paris
October 3, 2016, 2:50 a.m. The U.S. reality TV star is taken hostage in the heart of Paris. In her statements to ...
Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton: Donald Trump Is Not the First U.S. President to Shape the Global Economy to His Liking
By seeking to impose his rules on the rest of the world, Donald Trump follows in the footsteps of his predecessors in the ...
Speed Dating on the Front Line: Love in Time of War
How do people meet in Ukraine, Israel, Lebanon? How do they fall in love when hopes for a romantic future are tenuous? This ...
Fifty Is the New (and More Attractive) Thirty
Business leaders, senior executives, entrepreneurs — all say they have experienced a boost in their powers of seduction after ...
Five Sommeliers From Parisian Palace Hotels Share Their Favorite Everyday Wines
We asked the head sommeliers of five top Parisian hotels to tell us about their favorite affordable wines of the moment. What ...
In Paris, Catholic Schools Forced To Close Classes Despite Their Success
At the start of the next school year, 10 classes will be closed, even though private schools continue to attract more ...
The Great Fear of “Artificial Intelligence” Becoming a Go-To Reason for Firing Employees
While French law theoretically allows employers to justify job cuts by the introduction of AI, unions and experts are calling ...
Opinion
In the U.S., the Multiple Prosecutions Against Donald Trump Have Only Strengthened Him — What About Marine Le Pen in France?
The exclusion of Marine Le Pen, leader of the Rassemblement National, from the 2027 French presidential race is a deliberate choice, not a legal necessity, explains lawye. He argues that judicial ...
Trump Acts Like the Villain in a Batman Movie — Does That Mean We Need to Become Superheroes?
The U.S. president has unveiled a new round of tariffs against his trading partners. But Europeans have leverage against this policy, French essayist Édouard Tétreau writes.
Osaka vaut-elle le coup ? Découverte de la ville hôte de l’Exposition universelle, au-delà des clichés
L’Exposition universelle sur l’île artificielle de Yumeshima, au Japon, est l’occasion de prendre le pouls d’une destination ...
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Tensions entre la France et l’Algérie : où en est la «riposte graduée» promise par Bruno Retailleau
Le ministre de l’Intérieur avait décliné en mars une quinzaine de mesures allant crescendo, après le rejet par Alger d’une liste d’une soixantaine d’Algériens à expulser soumise par la France. «Il ne ...
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Guerre commerciale : la Chine ne veut plus réceptionner d’avions Boeing, selon Bloomberg
Les surtaxes imposées par Donald Trump font plus que doubler le coût des avions et des pièces détachées fabriqués aux États-Unis et arrivant sur le sol chinois. Brendan McDermid / REUTERS Pékin a ...