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"They burned her:" At the end of an awful wait for news comes word that a feared hostage is dead
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Wed,10/18/23-1:47PM , 103 Reads
PARIS (AP) — Because of the fracture in her right leg, Karin Journo had talked herself out of going to the Tribe of Nova music festival and sold her ticket.
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Journalists walk past Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa during a visit of the Louvre museum Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the techniques that Leonardo da Vinci used to paint his groundbreaking portrait of the woman with the exquisitely enigmatic smile. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

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Scientists pry a secret from the `Mona Lisa' about how Leonardo painted the masterpiece
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Wed,10/11/23-6:17AM , 184 Reads
PARIS (AP) — The “Mona Lisa” has given up another secret.
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A woman rides on the Alexandre III bridge in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Years of efforts to turn car-congested Paris into a more bike-friendly city are paying off ahead of the 2024 Olympics, with increasing numbers of people using the French capital's growing network of cycle lanes. (AP Photo/John Leicester)

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Long a city that embraced cars, Paris is seeing a new kind of road rage: Bike-lane traffic jams
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Wed,09/27/23-10:01PM , 225 Reads
PARIS (AP) — Ring, ring! It's rush hour on Paris' Sébastopol Boulevard, and the congestion is severe — not just gas-guzzling, pollution-spewing, horn-honking snarls but also quieter and greener bottlenecks of cyclists jockeying for space.
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Britain's Queen Camilla , left, French President Emmanuel Macron's wife Brigitte Macron, second left, and Britain' s King Charles III talk to children exercising boxing during a visit to a gymnasium, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023 in Saint-Denis, outside Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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British royals sprinkle star power on a grateful French town with up-and-down ties to royalty
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Thu,09/21/23-11:34AM , 475 Reads
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — As they do every day at noon, the town hall bells played a cheeky little tune about a king who put his pants on back to front.
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