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Mar

2024

Talking points from European soccer

Talking points from the weekend in European soccer leagues: FRANCE NICE IN A RUT Nice's promising start to the season feels like a distant memory as they extended their winless streak to six league matches with a 2-1 loss to Montpellier on Friday. Manager Francesco Farioli admitted it was a difficult time for the club, which seemed unstoppable just four months ago. "The efforts the players put in to keep the team at the top of the table for six months required a lot of physical and mental energy," he said. With Nice in sixth place and 16 points behind…

Oct

2023

By DOMINIQUE VIDALON and MARINE STRAUSS

Eight French airports hit by security alerts

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EIGHT French airports faced security alerts and several were evacuated for checks, the DGAC aviation authority said, and the Palace of Versailles closed again due to its third security scare in five days. The airports affected were Toulouse, Biarritz and Pau in the southwest, Nice in the southeast, Lyon in the east, Lille in the north, and Rennes and Nantes in western France, according to a DGAC spokesperson and the interior ministry. Lille airport was evacuated due to a bomb scare, the airport had said earlier in the day on social media platform X. "State security teams are on site," the airport…

Nov

2020

By The African Mirror

Three in custody in France following Nice attack

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SARAH WHITE and MICHEL ROSE A third person was taken into custody in France in connection with a knife attack which left three dead in Nice on Thursday, a police source said on Saturday, as the government ramps up security efforts against possible militant attacks. An assailant shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in Nice, in France's second deadly knife attack in two weeks. The third arrest took place on Friday and followed another that day and a previous one on Thursday, the police source said. At least two…