Worshippers at Saint-Nicolas-and-Saint-Alexandra’s church in the French Riviera city of Nice, who are descendants of émigrés who fled the 1917 Russian Revolution, say they fear they will be turned out after the Russian Federation asked a French court on Wednesday to declare it as the legal owner of the building.
While slight improvements on numbers of Covid-19 virus infections and hospitalisations have begun emerging across France, the government's spokesman on Wednesday said 'we're still far from' lifting the lockdown imposed for a second time at the end of October, dampening hopes of small high-street businesses for a re-opening of trading before Christmas.
Vincent Reffet, 36, whose skydiving stunts included flying in a synchronised landing through the door of a turbo-prop plane and flying alongside a jumbo jet with engines strapped to his back, has died in training above the desert in the United Arab Emirates.
Moroccan national Ayoub El Khazzani, who was overpowered by off-duty US soldiers when he attempted to launch a shooting attack on passengers of an Amsterdam-Paris Thalys train on August 21st 2015, and three other men charged with helping him appeared in a Paris court on Monday at the start of their trial which is expected to last until December 17th.
France’s Barkhane force 'neutralised' Bah ag Moussa on Tuesday in an operation involving ground troops and helicopters, defence minister Parly said in a statement on Friday.
Ifop survey showed that 60 percent had flouted the rules at least once, either by giving a false reason for going out on their self-signed permission slip or by meeting up with family and friends.
An improvised explosive device struck the Remembrance Day ceremony, attended by representatives of France, Greece, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States, the French embassy in Saudi Arabia said.
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