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Protests support Floyd, Black Lives Matter on 4 continents
AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/police-brutality-american-protests-police-ap-top-news-international-news-3776c23efa2b50ab151ce40e657ff027Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/police-brutality-american-protests-police-ap-top-news-international-news-3776c23efa2b50ab151ce40e657ff027Click to copyRelated topicsBERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered Saturday in cities far from the United States to express anger over the death of a sign that the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality is resonating with wider calls to address racism from Australia to Europe.In Berlin,...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/police-brutality-american-protests-police-ap-top-news-international-news-3776c23efa2b50ab151ce40e657ff027Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/police-brutality-american-protests-police-ap-top-news-international-news-3776c23efa2b50ab151ce40e657ff027Click to copyRelated topicsBERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered Saturday in cities far from the United States to express anger over the death of a sign that the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality is resonating with wider calls to address racism from Australia to Europe.In Berlin,...WW…
'Dangerous': Around world, police chokeholds scrutinized
AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-france-paris-b186c4825ef8fdb67ce62b537ac6073dClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-france-paris-b186c4825ef8fdb67ce62b537ac6073dClick to copyRelated topicsLE PECQ, France (AP) — Three days after with a Minneapolis police officer choking off his air, another black man writhed on the tarmac of a street in Paris as a police officer pressed a knee to his neck during an arrest. Immobilization techniques where officers apply pressure with their knees on prone suspects are used in policing...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-france-paris-b186c4825ef8fdb67ce62b537ac6073dClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-france-paris-b186c4825ef8fdb67ce62b537ac6073dClick to copyRelated topicsLE PECQ, France (AP) — Three days after with a Minneapolis police officer choking off his air, another black man writhed on the tarmac of a street in Paris as a police officer pressed a knee to his neck during an arrest. Immobilization techniques where officers apply pressure with their knees on prone suspects are used in policing...WW…
Europe prepares post-corona, socially-distanced culture-fest
AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/bf122afa0965aabdeb0a2e9484762b71Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/bf122afa0965aabdeb0a2e9484762b71Click to copyRelated topicsLE PECQ, France (AP) — You may need a face mask to see the Mona Lisa. You will have your temperature taken at the Colosseum in Rome. And to see views of Paris from the Eiffel Tower might require taking the stairs. After the cultural deprivation of the lockdown months during which their treasures were hidden away, many of Europe’s iconic museums and other tourist draws are preparing to reopen. Government officials hope this will...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/bf122afa0965aabdeb0a2e9484762b71Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/bf122afa0965aabdeb0a2e9484762b71Click to copyRelated topicsLE PECQ, France (AP) — You may need a face mask to see the Mona Lisa. You will have your temperature taken at the Colosseum in Rome. And to see views of Paris from the Eiffel Tower might require taking the stairs. After the cultural deprivation of the lockdown months during which their treasures were hidden away, many of Europe’s iconic museums and other tourist draws are preparing to reopen. Government officials hope this will...WW…
France closes the Louvre as virus spreads to new fronts
AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/france-wa-state-wire-museums-china-virus-outbreak-fd006734bacfb34a9dba966694359e5fClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/france-wa-state-wire-museums-china-virus-outbreak-fd006734bacfb34a9dba966694359e5fClick to copyRelated topicsPARIS (AP) — Coronavirus cases surged in Italy, and France closed the world-famous Louvre Museum as the epidemic that began in China sent fear rising across Western Europe, threatening its tourism industry.The virus has spread to more than 60 countries, and more than 3,000 people have died from the COVID-19 illness it causes.New...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/france-wa-state-wire-museums-china-virus-outbreak-fd006734bacfb34a9dba966694359e5fClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/france-wa-state-wire-museums-china-virus-outbreak-fd006734bacfb34a9dba966694359e5fClick to copyRelated topicsPARIS (AP) — Coronavirus cases surged in Italy, and France closed the world-famous Louvre Museum as the epidemic that began in China sent fear rising across Western Europe, threatening its tourism industry.The virus has spread to more than 60 countries, and more than 3,000 people have died from the COVID-19 illness it causes.New...WW…
Bitter experience helps French ICUs crest latest virus wave
AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/general-news-health-europe-c47d52a99b97302bd1ef80195d723fe2Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/general-news-health-europe-c47d52a99b97302bd1ef80195d723fe2Click to copyRelated topicsROUEN, France (AP) — Slowly suffocating in a French intensive care ward, Patrick Aricique feared he would die from his diseased lungs that felt “completely burned from the inside, burned like the cathedral in Paris,” as tired doctors and nurses labored day and night to keep gravely ill COVID-19 patients like him alive. A married couple in the same ICU died within hours of...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/general-news-health-europe-c47d52a99b97302bd1ef80195d723fe2Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/general-news-health-europe-c47d52a99b97302bd1ef80195d723fe2Click to copyRelated topicsROUEN, France (AP) — Slowly suffocating in a French intensive care ward, Patrick Aricique feared he would die from his diseased lungs that felt “completely burned from the inside, burned like the cathedral in Paris,” as tired doctors and nurses labored day and night to keep gravely ill COVID-19 patients like him alive. A married couple in the same ICU died within hours of...WW…
Famed French designer Pierre Cardin dies at 98
John Leicester, The Associated PressPARIS - French fashion designer Pierre Cardin possessed a wildly inventive artistic sensibility tempered by a stiff dose of business sense. He had no problem acknowledging that he earned more from a pair of stockings than from a haute-couture gown with a six-figure price tag.Cardin, who died Tuesday at age 98, was the ultimate entrepreneurial designer. He understood the importance his exclusive haute couture shows played in stoking consumer desire and became an early pioneer of licensing. His name emblazoned hundreds of products, from accessories to home...…John Leicester, The Associated PressPARIS - French fashion designer Pierre Cardin possessed a wildly inventive artistic sensibility tempered by a stiff dose of business sense. He had no problem acknowledging that he earned more from a pair of stockings than from a haute-couture gown with a six-figure price tag.Cardin, who died Tuesday at age 98, was the ultimate entrepreneurial designer. He understood the importance his exclusive haute couture shows played in stoking consumer desire and became an early pioneer of licensing. His name emblazoned hundreds of products, from accessories to home...WW…
French police quiz child apologists of teacher’s beheading
close This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. To orderpresentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distributionto colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire aboutpermissions/licensing, please go to: LE PECQ, France - Police in France questioned four 10-year-olds who voiced support for the beheading of a schoolteacher and who said they would kill their own teacher if he lampooned Islam’s prophet, the government reported as the prime minister warned Saturday that Islamic extremists are recruiting in France with “ignorance and hate.”The children and their parents...…close This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. To orderpresentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distributionto colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire aboutpermissions/licensing, please go to: LE PECQ, France - Police in France questioned four 10-year-olds who voiced support for the beheading of a schoolteacher and who said they would kill their own teacher if he lampooned Islam’s prophet, the government reported as the prime minister warned Saturday that Islamic extremists are recruiting in France with “ignorance and hate.”The children and their parents...WW…
First Native American racer blazes trail at Tour de France
AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/tour-de-france-north-america-cycling-paris-france-4018380a934a72554893216955451fe6Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/tour-de-france-north-america-cycling-paris-france-4018380a934a72554893216955451fe6Click to copyRelated topicsLE PECQ, France (AP) — A late draft to the Tour de France, Neilson Powless didn’t have time to scramble together a turtle necklace, the spirit animal of his Native American tribe, or paint one of their wampum bead belts on the frame of the bike that he’s ridden for three punishing weeks, over 3,300 kilometers (2,000 miles) of...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/tour-de-france-north-america-cycling-paris-france-4018380a934a72554893216955451fe6Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/tour-de-france-north-america-cycling-paris-france-4018380a934a72554893216955451fe6Click to copyRelated topicsLE PECQ, France (AP) — A late draft to the Tour de France, Neilson Powless didn’t have time to scramble together a turtle necklace, the spirit animal of his Native American tribe, or paint one of their wampum bead belts on the frame of the bike that he’s ridden for three punishing weeks, over 3,300 kilometers (2,000 miles) of...WW…