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Hello From a French Village That Recalls the U.S. as a Staunch Ally
French visitors are coming to Washington with an old U.S. battle flag and a plan to rekindle memories of the American ...
The Nation7d
In the Le Pen Verdict, the French Far Right Sees a Political Declaration of War
The sentence looks primed to set off a firestorm on the far right, both in France and across Europe. A visibly stunned Marine ...
The Arts Desk8d
Howard Amos: Russia Starts Here review - East meets West, via the Pskov region
Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...
France 241mon
Paris Gare du Nord travel chaos draws to a close as police defuse WWII bomb
It could even have been a German bomb from June 1940 or August 1944, but the Germans dropped far fewer bombs on France than the Allies did." In World War II, Allied forces' bombing raids ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore1mon
Thousands stranded as World War II bomb paralyses Paris train station
PARIS: The unearthing of a 500kg World War II bomb near tracks outside Paris ... All traffic to the Gare du Nord train station, which is France's busiest railway terminus and serves international ...
Asia One1mon
Discovery of World War 2 bomb near major Paris train station disrupts services
PARIS — The discovery of an unexploded bomb dating back to World War Two has disrupted morning ... to and from destinations in the north of France, London, Belgium and the Netherlands, according ...
Chicago Tribune1mon
Afternoon Briefing: Illinois clinic offers new device to spinal cord injury patients
Travelers wait as Eurostar trains to London and all trains heading to northern France were brought to a halt following the discovery of an unexploded bomb dating back to World War II near the ...