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Iraq seeking money, aid to restore artifacts

PARIS – For the roomful of archaeologists, scholars and Iraqi cultural officials on Friday, each neighborhood conquered in Mosul brought them one step closer to learning the fate of the anci...

DATE: Feb 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Alpine threat heating up

Winter tourist towns need to adapt

DATE: Sep 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

To counter terror, Europe’s police reconsider their arms

PARIS – One was a young policewoman, unarmed on the outskirts of Paris and felled by an assault rifle. Her partner, also without weapons, could do nothing to stop the gunman. Another was a f...

DATE: Jan 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

France cracks down on hate speech, sends carrier to Mideast

PARIS – France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and those glorifying terrorism and announced Wednesday it was sending an aircraft carrier to...

DATE: Jan 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Allergen rules create confusion in Europe

PARIS – A European rule requiring restaurants, bakeries and supermarkets – or anyone mass-producing meals – to list any of 14 allergens that might appear on their menus is being met with con...

DATE: Dec 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Food

U.S. pushes allies to fight extremists

British prime minister: Islamic State are ‘monsters’

DATE: Sep 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

French revolutionary gets 3-D makeover, diagnosis

PARIS – A pair of researchers who gave the French revolutionary Robespierre a disputed 3-D makeover raised the possibility Friday that the man best known for unleashing the Reign of Terror m...

DATE: Dec 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

France decries reports of NSA surveillance

PARIS – The U.S. National Security Agency swept up 70.3 million French telephone records in a 30-day period, according to a newspaper report that offered new details of the massive scope of ...

DATE: Oct 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

France keeps fracking ban

PARIS – France’s constitutional council upheld a ban on the energy extraction process known as fracking on Friday, two days after the European Parliament voted to require full environmental ...

DATE: Oct 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Syria’s ancient history faces new threats

PARIS – Looted artifacts turning up on the black market, plundered archaeological sites and the collapse of the minaret of an 11th century mosque that was the ancient heart of Aleppo’s walle...

DATE: Aug 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

As French idea of restaurant changes, so does law

PARIS – The country that gave us the words restaurant, bistro and cuisine is changing how it eats. For the first time in France, fast food overtook traditional restaurant receipts...

DATE: Aug 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Food

Intel dilemma: Solo terrorists

Terror networks encouraging followers to keep to themselves

DATE: May 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World