https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Since she was "buried" under the dead and dying at the Bataclan concert hall, Laura Leveque has "carried 130 corpses" on her shoulders. "So I may as well mark it," she said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171105/bataclan-survivors-tattoos-show-their-pain-and-defiance Sun, 05 Nov 2017 15:34:13 +0100 bataclan-survivors-tattoos-show-their-pain-and-defiance A train crashed in southern France on Wednesday afternoon, leaving around 60 people injured, eight severely. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160817/train-crash-accident-france-ter-southern-france Wed, 17 Aug 2016 18:33:45 +0200 train-crash-accident-france-ter-southern-france Around 25,000 Catholic pilgrims packed the French shrine of Lourdes on Monday for Assumption celebrations, held under tight security after several terror attacks, including the murder of a Catholic priest. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160815/pray-for-france-catholics-rally-at-shrine-lourdes-pilgrimage-under-shadow-of-terror Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:25:37 +0200 pray-for-france-catholics-rally-at-shrine-lourdes-pilgrimage-under-shadow-of-terror UPDATED: Here's what we know so far about the terrorists - now numbered at seven - all wearing suicide vests, who wrought unprecedented violence in six locations across Paris on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151114/what-we-know-so-far-about-the-attackers Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:32:13 +0100 what-we-know-so-far-about-the-attackers First it was the calamity of the French trains too fat for platforms. Now French rail chiefs have been left embarrassed by a new fleet of regional trains that are too high to get through the tunnels into Italy. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150703/new-french-trains-too-high-to-get-to-italy Fri, 03 Jul 2015 16:26:15 +0200 new-french-trains-too-high-to-get-to-italy Rats nibbling at signalling cables led to a crash between two passenger trains that injured 40 people in south-west France earlier this month, a new report has announced. And signal failure is not the only problem being blamed on rats this week. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140729/nibbling-rats-to-blame-for-tgv-rail-crash-report Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:24:00 +0200 nibbling-rats-to-blame-for-tgv-rail-crash-report