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Fake videos generated by AI go viral, leading people to ask if Big Ben is on fire

Widely-spread video of Big Ben in flames has gained millions of views on TikTok

Evening Standard

Curtain Drops For Eiffel Tower Puppet Theatre Before Paris Games

Julien Sommer has been putting on a puppet show in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower since he was 15, filling his picturesque theatre with starry-eyed children and their parents several times a week.

International Business Times

Strikes Shut Doors At World-famous French Monuments

Tourists travelling to visit historic French landmarks the Eiffel Tower and Normandy's Mont Saint Michel have found their doors closed for part of the past two weeks, as striking workers complain of underinvestment and too many visitors.

International Business Times

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France ramps up security for New Year's Eve mobilising 90,000 police amid 'very high' terror threat

The tight security comes after a tourist was killed in a knife attack near the Eiffel Tower on December 2

Evening Standard

Strife-filled tower: Strike closes monument on centenary of Eiffel's death

The Eiffel Tower, one of the world's prime tourist attractions, was closed on Wednesday after staff went on strike.

Radio France Internationale

The Eiffel Tower is closed while workers strike on the 100th anniversary of its founder's death

The Eiffel Tower is shut down to visitors Wednesday because of a strike over contract negotiations

The Independent UK

Eiffel Tower shut as workers go on strike

The Eiffel Tower was shut down to visitors Wednesday because of a strike over contract negotiations, the day the Paris monument marks 100 years since the death of its creator, Gustave Eiffel.

France 24

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Beyond the Tower: the other star attractions of Gustave Eiffel’s Paris

We pick top sites in the French capital that show off the great engineer’s genius. And who knew that it’s thanks to him the Statue of Liberty didn’t fall into New York harbour?

The Guardian - UK

How the Eiffel Tower became silent cinema's icon

27 December 2023 marks the centenary of the death of the French civil engineer, Gustave Eiffel. Many studies have looked at the way in which the tower that bears his name has inspired painters (Bonnard, Chagall, Delaunay, De Staël, etc.) and poets (Apollinaire, Cendrars, Cocteau, Queneau, etc.) since it was…

The Conversation

Kedist Deltour Posts Bold Photoshoot at the Eiffel Tower

Discover Kedist Deltour's latest Instagram post where she elegantly poses in a stylish black dress with the Eiffel Tower as her stunning backdrop.

Top News

Six charged with human trafficking in court over drugs, manipulaton of minors to steal

Six Algerians are due to go on trial in Paris this week for aggravated human trafficking. They are suspected of getting unaccompanied foreign minors hooked on psychotropic drugs to get them to steal near the Eiffel Tower.

Radio France Internationale

The City of Light: How Paris got its glow

France in Focus shines a light on how Paris went from utter darkness to the illuminated city of today. The team meets a passionate group of electricity enthusiasts to discover some of the most famous lamps that have lit up the French capital. They also speak to the granddaughter of…

France 24

French police address fear factor ahead of the Olympic Games after a deadly attack near Eiffel Tower

The bar was already high, but the security challenge ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games only grew with a knife attack last weekend that killed a tourist near the Eiffel Tower

The Independent UK

Paris knife attack suspect charged with terror offences

A man suspected of stabbing a German tourist to death near the Eiffel Tower was charged late Wednesday with carrying out a terror attack and placed in solitary confinement, his lawyer said.

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The Independent UK

Prosecutor seeks terror-linked charge for man accused of killing tourist near Eiffel Tower

France’s anti-terrorism prosecutors have requested that the man who allegedly fatally stabbed a tourist and wounded two other people near the Eiffel Tower be handed preliminary charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist organization

International Business Times

Paris Attacker To Go Before Judge Facing Terror Charges

A man suspected of stabbing a German tourist to death near the Eiffel Tower was to appear before a French judge on Wednesday with a view to being charged with carrying out a terror attack, a source close to the case said.

Radio France Internationale

Paris knife attack suspect to face charges in anti-terrorist court

A man suspected of stabbing a tourist to death near the Eiffel Tower is due to appear before a French judge this Wednesday with a view to being charged with carrying out a terrorist attack.

France 24

Age of violence? Eiffel Tower attack adds to security concerns in France

When is it terrorism? And when is it a mental health issue? France's interior minister is branding Saturday night's fatal stabbing of a German tourist near Paris's Eiffel Tower a "failure of psychiatric care". We ask about Gérald Darmanin's words and the profile of a 26-year-old suspect who had been…

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The Independent UK

French investigation into fatal attack near Eiffel Tower looks into mental illness of suspect

French investigations into a fatal weekend attack near the Eiffel Tower are looking into the suspect's mental health

France 24

Paris knife attacker 'swore allegiance to IS' terrorist group, suffered from mental issues

The man who stabbed a tourist to death near the Eiffel Tower in Paris swore allegiance to the Islamic State group in a video posted to social media, French anti-terrorist prosecutors said Sunday.

The Independent UK

Paris: British man injured in suspected terror attack that left German tourist dead

The attack happened near the Eiffel Tower just before 9pm local time on Saturday

The Independent UK

Tourist killed and two others injured in Paris attack

The attack could spark fears over the Olympic host city’s security measures

France 24

French police arrest assailant after deadly knife attack in central Paris

French police arrested a man who targeted passersby in Paris on Saturday night, killing a German tourist with a knife and injuring two others, France's interior minister said.

The Conversation

The Crown season six: an overly detailed, unimaginative soap opera – I needed a martini to get through it

The opening scene of season six of The Crown sees a man walking his dog under the light of the Eiffel Tower. It’s 1997 and a Mercedes car speeds past and ends in a horrendous crash in a Paris tunnel. The man’s dog is being recalcitrant and refusing to take…

The Guardian - UK

Natalie Haynes: ‘I couldn’t stop reading Stephen King - even at the top of the Eiffel Tower’

The author and comedian on drawing comedic inspiration from Juvenal, finding clarity in Homer, and the comic strips she loved as a teenager

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