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  • shark fin sticks out of water in front of upside down reflection of Eiffel Tower

    Under Paris: Netflix has delivered one of the best shark movies ever made

    There’s a shark in Paris in a knowingly improbable yet genuinely entertaining summer thriller that deserves its place near the top of a hit-and-miss subgenre
  • Planes at Paris-CDG airport

    French terror inquiry after Ukrainian-Russian man detonates explosive materials in hotel

    Man, 26, questioned under suspicion of participating in terrorist conspiracy after explosion in hotel north of Paris
  • Members of the Russian youth organisation Yunarmia (Young Army) celebrate the day of saints Cyril and Methodius, founders of the Cyrillic alphabet, in Moscow’s Red Square on 24 May 2024.

    Brief letters
    Vladimir Putin and Russia’s screwed generation

    Brief letters: Generation P | Photobombing in the Musée d’Orsay | Clamping down on HMRC | Fit and leftwing | 650 Mhairi Blacks
  • Covers and spine of book

    Handwritten ‘draft’ of Albert Camus’s L’Étranger sold in Paris for €650,000

    Text appears to have been copied out and backdated by Camus in 1944, possibly as a way to raise funds during Nazi occupation
  • Gendarmes oversee migrants being evacuated from a squat in a disused factory: young men, mostly black and wearing anoraks and hooded tops, walk out of a gate carrying large bags as police look on.

    Thousands of homeless people removed from Paris region in pre-Olympics ‘social cleansing’

    Campaigners say operation to bus ‘undesirable’ people out of city and wider Île-de-France region has intensified
  • The Eiffel Tower is seen silhouetted against a grey, cloudy sky with construction work under way in the foreground; long sections of scaffolding and temporary huts and structures are seen.

    Russian interference suspected after coffins draped with tricolour placed at Eiffel Tower

    Three men charged after five coffins inscribed with ‘French soldiers in the Ukraine’ were left at tower
  • Workers prepare the Tuileries Garden for spring, Paris, France, 1964.

    Country diary
    Country diary 1924: scything skills on display in Paris

    9 June 1924: The use of a grass cutting machine is uncommon even in the city’s public parks
  • Activist defaces Monet painting to draw attention to global heating – video

  • A climate activist poses after defacing the painting at the Musée d’Orsay

    Climate activist defaces Monet painting in Paris

May 2024

  • A giant red and white tablecloth stretches down the boulevard towards an archway in the background

    Thousands of Parisians take part in free picnic on the Champs-Élysées

  • The Arc de Triomphe in Paris

    Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper review – chronicle of a French revelation

  • Four people diving into river with Eiffell Tower in the background

    Olympic Games’ €1.4bn clean-up aims to get Parisians swimming in the Seine

  • Sarah (left) and Joanna posing with the flags of Antigua and Barbuda and St Vincent and the Grenadines respectively in London, 2021

    How we met
    How we met: ‘We went straight into sharing a bed and a bathroom with no door’

  • France ‘investigating whether Russia behind’ graffiti on Holocaust memorial

  • You think Parisians grumble a lot? Don’t get them started on the Olympic Games

    Robert McLiam Wilson
  • ‘Otherworldly’: spiked clay sculpture by unknown Mexican ceramicist wins Loewe Foundation craft prize

  • Taylor Swift’s new Era Tours setlist – seven Tortured Poets songs added

  • Taylor Swift debuts new tracks as she returns to The Eras Tour

  • Cupcakes and ticket warnings: Paris ready for sellout Taylor Swift shows

  • Paris authority slated for hiking cost of Métro and bus trips during Olympics

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