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April 17, 2019
France launches global contest to design new Notre-dame spire
PARIS — France will invite architects from around the world to submit designs for rebuilding the spire of Notre-dame cathedral that was destroyed in a devastating blaze, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Wednesday.The goal is “to give Notre-dame a new spire that is adapted to the techniques and the challenges of our era,” Philippe told reporters a day after President Emmanuel Macron vowed to rebuild the cathedral “even more ...
April 17, 2019
Amid worries over Russia, Sweden returns troops to Baltic island
UNDER an icy rain, camouflage-clad Swedish soldiers crouched behind a log pile, aimed their machine guns toward the Baltic Sea and, at their officers’ barked orders, opened fire down the snow-covered range.A few kilometers away another group wrapped in thick winter jackets, body armor and helmets fired anti-tank missiles, throwing up sprays of ice and snow behind them as instructors watched the orange rockets streak down the range.It was routine ...
April 17, 2019
Climate-change protesters disrupt London docklands train service
LONDON — Two environmental activists climbed onto the roof of a train in London’s Canary Wharf financial district on Wednesday as part of a third day of action to force Britain to take more radical measures to avert climate change.The Extinction Rebellion group has ratcheted up its protests in recent weeks, blocking Marble Arch, Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge, smashing a door at the Shell building and shocking lawmakers with ...
April 17, 2019
France to try Syrian President Assad’s uncle on graft charges
PARIS — The uncle of Syrian President Bashar Assad is to stand trial in France on charges of building up a big property empire in the country using funds from Syrian state coffers, legal sources said on Wednesday.An investigating magistrate ordered Rifaat Assad to stand trial for organized money laundering in building the 90 million euro ($102 million) property portfolio in France, according to the order for the trial seen ...
April 16, 2019
Saudi envoy to Switzerland encourages businessmen to invest in Saudi Arabia
Berne — Saudi Arabia and the Swiss Federal Council recently signed an agreement to avoid double taxation on income and capital and to prevent tax evasion.That agreement constitutes a robust legal framework defining fiscal relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Swiss Confederation, reducing the tax burden on investors and giving them an assurance of transparency in taxation.Saudi Ambassador to Switzerland Prince Mansour Bin Nasser Bin Abdul Aziz ...
April 16, 2019
France probes Notre-Dame inferno as donations pour in
PARIS — French investigators interviewed construction workers involved in renovation work at the Notre-Dame cathedral on Tuesday as they sought to identify the source of a devastating blaze at the monument that has sent shock waves through France and the world.Donations and offers of help began to pour in as day broke over the City of Light, revealing the extent of the damage from Monday night’s inferno which took around ...
April 16, 2019
Daylight reveals extent of damage
PARIS — Shards of stained glass from priceless medieval windows, and a gaping hole above the choir area where the spire crashed down: daylight reveals the extent of damage at Notre-dame cathedral on Tuesday morning as firefighters put out the last smoldering remains of the fire.Philippe Marsset, the vicar general of Notre-dame, was among the first to enter the storied Gothic cathedral whose sculpted arches have been blackened by smoke ...
April 16, 2019
Ilhan Omar, Muslim lawmaker, caught in US political firestorm
WASHINGTON — A former refugee and the first black Muslim woman elected to Congress, Ilhan Omar embodied the American dream in her November victory but faces controversies fueled by her own words and President Donald Trump’s hostility toward her.Omar’s win was celebrated as historic, and her arrival in Washington contributed to the appreciation that Congress was finally becoming a more diverse, representative American institution.Now she is receiving daily death threats.Since ...
April 16, 2019
Pelosi warns Democrats of liberal ‘menace’ ahead of 2020 elections
LONDON — US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday her Democratic Party must avoid the “menace” of liberal policies pushed by rising political stars if it wants to beat President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.The top congressional Democrat used an appearance at the London School of Economics to set out a centrist vision that could help woo Republican voters frustrated with Trump’s approach.She followed standard US diplomatic protocol ...
April 16, 2019
France probes Notre-Dame inferno as donations pour in
PARIS — French investigators interviewed construction workers involved in renovation work at the Notre-Dame cathedral on Tuesday as they sought to identify the source of a devastating blaze at the monument that has sent shock waves through France and the world.Donations and offers of help began to pour in as day broke over the City of Light, revealing the extent of the damage from Monday night’s inferno which took around ...
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