Nicolas Camut
Frustrated farmers slam EU ‘technocrats’ who ‘call the shots’ in Brussels protest
BRUSSELS — Benoît Laqueue was one of 100 disgruntled French farmers on a bus headed for the European...
8 months ago
EU threatened ‘Armageddon’ to force vote on Ukraine aid, Orbán says
Viktor Orbán claims Brussels is blackmailing him to approve a €50 billion lifeline to Ukraine which...
8 months ago
Sweden drops Nord Stream sabotage probe
Sweden is ending its investigation into the mysterious explosions that blew up the undersea Nord Stream pipelines after concluding the country's courts do not have jurisdiction over the case. In a statement issued Wednesday, Swedish prosecutor Mats Ljungq...
6 months ago
EU energy supplies targeted in Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
Russia's latest missile attack on Ukraine hit energy infrastructure used to supply the European Union with natural gas, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.Ukraine's energy system was struck by 34 Russian rockets in a "massive missile attack" on...
5 months ago
Paris Olympics fiasco looms as Seine (still) unsafe for swimming
PARIS — On Tuesday morning, athletes should have been thrashing down the River Seine in Paris, battling to come out on top of the Olympic triathlon's first leg: 1,500 meters of open water swimming.Instead, not a single swimmer was in sight.The reason? Onc...
2 months ago
Seine water quality ‘marginally acceptable’ at latest Olympics race, new samples show
PARIS — The Seine's water quality was satisfactory during the Olympics' triathlon relay race on Monday, the latest testing results revealed.During the race, the levels of E-coli bacteria in the river were measured at 418 colony-forming units (cfu) of E-co...
2 months ago
Forget Olympic athletes — will Parisians ever want to swim in the Seine?
PARIS — In the minds of French officials, the plan was ambitious but simple: Clean up the Seine for the 2024 Olympics and convince the world that everyone could enjoy a carefree dip in the notoriously murky river next summer.Well, Olympic athletes did ult...
2 months ago