PARIS: Ten people with links to the radical far-right have been arrested by anti-terrorist police in France over an alleged plot to attack Muslims, judicial sources said Sunday. The arrests were made late Saturday in operations across France, including the Mediterranean island of Corsica, the sources told AFP. The suspects had an “ill-defined plan to […]
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Outrage in France over plan for Muslim rapper to perform at Bataclan
PARIS: Rightwing French leaders have condemned as ‘sacrilege’ a decision to allow a provocative Muslim rapper to play the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where militants massacred 90 people three years ago. Singer Medine – who caused an outcry when he attacked hardline secularists in a controversial 2015 song, Don’t Laik, a week before the Charlie Hebdo […]
Terror probe launched after deadly Paris knife attack
A knifeman shouting “Allahu akbar” was shot dead by police in central Paris late Saturday after he killed one person and injured four others, sparking a terror probe and panic on the streets of France’s capital. The attack took place near the city’s main opera house in an area full of bars, restaurants and theatres […]
‘Little black dress’ designer Givenchy dies aged 91
PARIS: Hubert de Givenchy, the aristocratic French fashion designer famous for the “Little black dress” and styling Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy, has died aged 91, his partner said Monday. Givenchy set the template for ladylike chic in the 1950s and 1960s, dressing everyone from Princess Grace of Monaco to Jane Fonda. His longtime partner, […]
Chanel slammed for cutting down trees for Paris fashion show
Karl Lagerfeld created a spectacular mid-winter wood for his Paris catwalk Tuesday, but immediately fell foul of environmental activists who accused him of felling century-old trees for the show. The veteran German creator turned the Grand Palais into a forest, with tonnes of dead leaves strewn on mirrored steps and nine tall mossy oaks planted […]
EU aims to tax internet giants at ‘two to six percent’: France
Paris: The EU will soon unveil a plan for taxing major internet companies like Amazon and Facebook by imposing a levy of two to six percent on revenues in every country where they operate, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said Sunday. “The range will be from two to six percent; but closer to two […]
Trump tells Paris, Berlin to ‘keep making money’ via trade with Tehran
United States President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday that he does not object to France and Germany continuing trade with Iran, despite his refusal to certify the Iran nuclear deal. “I told them just keep making money,” the real estate mogul-turned-president was speaking on Fox News’ program Sunday Morning Futures. “Don’t […]