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Paco Rabanne, Who Brought the Space Age to the Catwalk, Dies Aged 88

Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born designer best known for his metallic ensembles and space age designs of the 1960s, has died at the age of 88. The eponymous label he exited more than two decades ago hailed him as "among the most seminal fashion figures of the 20th century". Rabanne dressed…

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Paco Rabanne, ‘space-age’ fashion designer dies at 88

Born Francisco Rabaneda y Cuervo in 1934, the future designer fled the Spanish Basque country at age 5 during the Spanish Civil War and took the name of Paco Rabanne.

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France hopes to replace Notre-Dame's spire by the end of 2023

Notre-Dame cathedral, badly damaged by fire in 2019, should reopen by the end of 2024, according to France's Culture Ministry – too late for the Paris Olympics. The cathedral's distrinctive spire should nonetheless be back in place by the end of this year.

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Olympic bans and boycotts go back a century

Ukraine and the three Baltic countries have moved a step closer to boycotting next year’s Paris Olympics because of the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes

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Olympics-Up to IOC to decide if Russia can compete in Paris 2024 - Estanguet

The head of the Paris 2024 Olympics Tony Estanguet said on Friday it was for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to decide whether Russian and Belarusian athletes can participate in the Games next year.

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Paris Olympics torch relay to start in Marseille

The southern port city of Marseille will host the Olympic flame in April 2024 before it continues its journey across France to Paris, organisers announced on Friday.

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Ukraine steps up efforts to exclude Russia from Olympics

Ukraine has stepped up efforts to lobby international sports leaders against Russian participation in next year’s Paris Olympics as indications mount that the games could see the biggest boycott since the Cold War

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Poland expects global push against Russian, Belarusian athletes

Warsaw and the Baltic nations are calling for a ban, but the IOC has suggested Russians and Belarusians could compete.

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Paris 2024 Olympic torch relay to begin in Marseille after arriving from Greece by sea

The Paris Olympics torch relay will start in France's southern port city of Marseille in April 2024, organizers announced Friday, after arriving by ship from Greece.

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Irish artist Niamh McCann on her exhibition 'Hairline Crack'

It's sometimes said that art records what the history books cannot, giving us a sense of how it may have felt to live through a particular moment in time. It also allows us to question the official narrative of events. "Hairline Crack [a dialogue]" by visual artist Niamh McCann is…

France 24

Olympic Flame to Take Seaborne Journey to 2024 Paris Games

The Olympic flame is going for a sail. Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the 2024 Paris Games will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving aboard a three-masted tall ship in the French port of Marseille. Paris organizers announced the flame’s journey on Friday…

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Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury to star in new Netflix documentary as first-time parents

At Home With the Fury's will focus on boxing superstar Tyson but the whole family will be involved as the Netflix cameras get access all areas with Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury

Daily Mirror

Olympic flame to take seaborne journey to 2024 Paris Games

The Olympic flame is going for a sail

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Air France flight turns back to Manchester Airport as 'smell of smoke' fills cabin

Witnesses said fire engines were called to the scene after the flight diverted

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BREAKING: Flight turns back to Manchester Airport due to 'smell of smoke in cockpit and cabin'

Eyewitnesses reported seeing fire engines at the scene when the plane landed

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Olympics-Russians' Asian route to Games not yet final-IOC's Lalovic

A proposed Paris 2024 Olympics qualification route for Russian and Belarusian athletes through Asian events has not been finalised or agreed, the United World Wrestling President Nenad Lalovic said on Friday.

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Saudi, French FMs Meet in Riyadh

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah held talks in Riyadh on Thursday with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna, who was on an official visit to the Kingdom. The ministers discussed the strong bilateral relations that bind Riyadh and Paris and ways of boosting and developing them in…

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Ukraine's Zelensky vows to hasten EU membership after Kyiv summit

Top EU officials met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a summit in Kyiv on Friday in a show of support for the country as it battles to counter Russia's forces and strives to join the 27-member bloc. Ahead of the summit, European Council President Charles Michel said Moscow's invasion…

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After Netanyahu Talks, Macron Warns of Iran Nuclear 'Consequences'

French President Emmanuel Macron denounced on Thursday the "headlong rush" of Iran's nuclear program after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in Paris to seek a stronger European stance against Tehran. In a statement released after a dinner meeting in the Elysee Palace, Macron warned that Tehran…

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Iran's nuclear programme at a 'dangerous point', Macron says after talks with Netanyahu

French President Emmanuel Macron denounced on Thursday the "headlong rush" of Iran's nuclear programme after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in Paris to seek a stronger European stance against Tehran.

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‘Up to 40 countries’ could boycott Olympic Games making Paris 2024 “pointless”

The calls for Russian and Belarusian athletes to be banned from the 2024 Olympics have intensified and the latest threat to the IOC could see the next edition of the prestigious event look quite different

The Independent UK

IOC details Russia stance for Olympics, cites human rights

The International Olympic Committee has stepped up efforts to explain its position on trying to help Russian athletes qualify for the Paris Games

France 24

Netanyahu visits France amid spike in Middle East tensions

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with France’s president, business leaders and members of France’s Jewish community during a trip to Paris starting Thursday that has angered Palestinian supporters amid a new spasm of violence in the Mideast.

The Independent UK

Netanyahu visits France amid spike in Mideast tensions

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with France’s president amid one of the deadliest periods of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in years

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