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Hundreds gather to honour Strasbourg victims

Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:50:37 +0100

Several hundred people gathered in Strasbourg on Sunday to honour the victims of an attack on the city's popular Christmas market that left four dead.

Aznavour buried in family vault after intimate funeral

Sun, 07 Oct 2018 04:35:25 +0200

French singer Charles Aznavour, who died Monday aged 94, was buried Saturday in the family vault outside Paris after a private funeral at the city's St John the Baptist Armenian cathedral.

How Charles Aznavour changed music forever

Sat, 06 Oct 2018 16:18:50 +0200

Charles Aznavour reinvented popular music one cold December night in Paris in 1960.

France remembers Charlie Hebdo attacks

Sun, 10 Jan 2016 16:00:46 +0100

Several thousand people gathered in Paris Sunday in a low-key ceremony to mark a year since a million and half citizens thronged the French capital in a show of unity following jihadist attacks on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket.

Slogans of unity show defiant spirit of Paris

Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:30:54 +0100

Determined not to give in to fear after Friday's terrorist attacks, the residents of Paris have pulled together in a show of solidarity. The Local looks at the slogans that show the city's spirit.

German president set to visit site of Nazi atrocity

Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:49:00 +0200

Germany's president Joachim Gauck will pay an official visit to Oradour-sur-Glane, the site of an infamous Nazi massacre in France, it was announced this week.

11 November adopted as remembrance day for all war dead

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:03:00 +0100

The French parliament approved a move on Monday for November 11th to become a day to remember all French war dead and not only those who died during the First World War.