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Paris Limits Car Speed To 30 Kmph In Bid To Boost Safety, Air Quality
French authorities hope the streets of Paris will be safer, quieter and less dirty from Monday as a new speed limit for drivers of 30 kph (19 mph) came into force.
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Paris Bans Up To 60% Of Its Cars As Heatwave Worsens Pollution
Paris has banned more than half of the cars registered in the region from its roads as a record heatwave worsens air pollution, the most drastic restrictions ever imposed there, officials said.
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Paris To Limit Vehicle Use To Reduce Air Pollution
Paris will restrict car use on Wednesday as a measure to fight against surging air pollution linked to intense heat wave that strikes most of French regions, the city's police department announced.
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Paris Goes Car-Free For A Day
The city of Paris banned all cars for a day on last Friday, from 11am to 6pm. The idea was to let slower, cleaner forms of transport at least for a single day.
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In Pictures: Paris Goes Car-Free For A Day
Parisians were encouraged to roller-blade, bike or stroll through the City of Light on Sunday for a "car-free" day intended to leave the streets vacant for slower, clean forms of transport.
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Suspect Arrested After Car Rams Paris Anti-Terror Troops
French police shot and arrested a suspect in a dramatic motorway chase Wednesday after a car smashed into soldiers outside a barracks in a Paris suburb, injuring six.
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French Police Seek Vehicle After Soldiers Hit In Paris, 6 Injured
French soldiers were hit and injured by a vehicle in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, Paris police authorities said on Wednesday, adding that a security operation was underway in the area.
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Cars Burned North Of Paris In Third Night Of Tension Over Death In Police Hands
Protesters angered by the death of a man in police hands earlier this week burned cars and garbage bins in an area north of Paris overnight, but tension seemed to be easing despite a third night of unrest, a local official said today.
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Paris Goes Car-Free For a Day Tomorrow
Central Paris goes car-free tomorrow as part of its fight against air pollution, at a time when the Volkswagen emissions scandal again turns the spotlight on diesel and the air pollutants it produces.
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Charlie Hebdo Attack: Suspects Holding At Least One Hostage
Two brothers suspected of slaughtering 12 people in an unprecedented jihadist attack in France held at least one person hostage on Friday as police cornered the gunmen northeast of the capital.
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Charlie Hebdo Attack: Police, Helicopters Rush to Corner Suspects
A hostage-taking was underway Friday near Paris' main airport after police hunting the Islamist brothers who killed 12 people earlier this week exchanged fire with two men during a car chase, security sources said. There are reports of at least one hostage being taken.
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Charlie Hebdo Attack: Suspects on Move Again, Shots Fired North of Paris
Two suspects in the storming of a satirical French newspaper that left 12 people dead have stolen a car and are on the move again as shots were fired in a small French town, a security official said Friday.
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Polluted Paris forces thousands of cars off the road
Thousands of cars will be banned from Parisian roads on Monday as the city tries to curb dangerous pollution levels.
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Paris Limits Car Speed To 30 Kmph In Bid To Boost Safety, Air Quality
French authorities hope the streets of Paris will be safer, quieter and less dirty from Monday as a new speed limit for drivers of 30 kph (19 mph) came into force.
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Paris Bans Up To 60% Of Its Cars As Heatwave Worsens Pollution
Paris has banned more than half of the cars registered in the region from its roads as a record heatwave worsens air pollution, the most drastic restrictions ever imposed there, officials said.
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Paris To Limit Vehicle Use To Reduce Air Pollution
Paris will restrict car use on Wednesday as a measure to fight against surging air pollution linked to intense heat wave that strikes most of French regions, the city's police department announced.
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Paris Goes Car-Free For A Day
The city of Paris banned all cars for a day on last Friday, from 11am to 6pm. The idea was to let slower, cleaner forms of transport at least for a single day.
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In Pictures: Paris Goes Car-Free For A Day
Parisians were encouraged to roller-blade, bike or stroll through the City of Light on Sunday for a "car-free" day intended to leave the streets vacant for slower, clean forms of transport.
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Suspect Arrested After Car Rams Paris Anti-Terror Troops
French police shot and arrested a suspect in a dramatic motorway chase Wednesday after a car smashed into soldiers outside a barracks in a Paris suburb, injuring six.
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French Police Seek Vehicle After Soldiers Hit In Paris, 6 Injured
French soldiers were hit and injured by a vehicle in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, Paris police authorities said on Wednesday, adding that a security operation was underway in the area.
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Cars Burned North Of Paris In Third Night Of Tension Over Death In Police Hands
Protesters angered by the death of a man in police hands earlier this week burned cars and garbage bins in an area north of Paris overnight, but tension seemed to be easing despite a third night of unrest, a local official said today.
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Paris Goes Car-Free For a Day Tomorrow
Central Paris goes car-free tomorrow as part of its fight against air pollution, at a time when the Volkswagen emissions scandal again turns the spotlight on diesel and the air pollutants it produces.
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Charlie Hebdo Attack: Suspects Holding At Least One Hostage
Two brothers suspected of slaughtering 12 people in an unprecedented jihadist attack in France held at least one person hostage on Friday as police cornered the gunmen northeast of the capital.
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Charlie Hebdo Attack: Police, Helicopters Rush to Corner Suspects
A hostage-taking was underway Friday near Paris' main airport after police hunting the Islamist brothers who killed 12 people earlier this week exchanged fire with two men during a car chase, security sources said. There are reports of at least one hostage being taken.
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Charlie Hebdo Attack: Suspects on Move Again, Shots Fired North of Paris
Two suspects in the storming of a satirical French newspaper that left 12 people dead have stolen a car and are on the move again as shots were fired in a small French town, a security official said Friday.
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Polluted Paris forces thousands of cars off the road
Thousands of cars will be banned from Parisian roads on Monday as the city tries to curb dangerous pollution levels.
