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French police are deploying video surveillance powered by artificial intelligence (AI) at two Paris metro stations used by fans attending pop superstar Taylor Swift'ss concerts in the city. The decree, published by the capital's Prefecture de Police earlier this week, justified the use of the controversial technique by saying that "in the current context, these concerts are events that are particularly exposed to the risk of acts of terrorism". The deployment will last a week from May 7 to 14 at the Nanterre Préfecture and La Défense Grande Arche metro stations, both of us which serve the Pari...
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Baron Pierre de Coubertin may have stood at a modest 5'3", but his impact on the 20th century was nothing short of monumental. From the 1980s, the Parisian educator and historian aimed to revive the ancient Greek tradition of quadrennial celebrations of athletics and the arts. These celebrations, once held in Olympia from 776 BC to 395 AD, laid the groundwork for what we now call the Modern Olympics. During the Ancient Games, athletes shared the stage with philosophers, scholars, poets, musicians, sculptors, and high-profile leaders. Courbertin referred to this gathering of talents as the ‘spi...
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Cyber security defenders are preparing for the upcoming Paris Olympic Games. The so-called cyberwarriors have studied and analysed potential hackers' strengths, tactics and weaknesses. Threats could be anyone from teenage show-offs and ransomware gangs to Russian military hackers with a track record of malicious cyberattacks that threaten to paralyse the IT systems vital for the sporting contest. But unlike the 10,500 Olympians who will converge on France’s capital in July, the cybersecurity engineers behind the Games hope to stay out the spotlight. For them, the equivalent of a medal will be ...
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Officers converged on the camp just before dawn and urged the migrants to pack their tents and belongings, before directing them to a bus to be driven to a transit centre outside the city. Only two or three of them climbed aboard the bus. Most others walked away carrying their belongings. Police said the operation was carried out for security reasons, notably because the tent camp was near schools. The 100 or so men and boys from West Africa had been living in the makeshift camp in central Paris for several weeks. Paris-region officials told the migrants - many of them minors and in the proces...
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Foie gras. Steak tartare. Beef bourguignon. Blanquette de veau. Frogs' legs. Snails. Let's be real, France isn't particularly renowned for its vegan-friendly cuisine. In fact, the French consume twice as much meat as the global average, boasting the highest beef and veal consumption per inhabitant. But the organisers of the Paris Olympics are looking to flip the script. They're introducing an unprecedented offering of vegetarian cuisine, surpassing anything seen in previous Games. The aim is to show that France is now more about 'leaf' than 'beef'. It's been announced that 60% of the food serv...
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Paris police evicted underage migrants from a makeshift camp on Tuesday morning as part of what aid groups are calling a campaign of “social cleansing” in advance of the 2024 Olympics. Around 30 teenage boys and young men from West Africa sleeping on the street were awoken by police before dawn on Tuesday morning and told to pack up their tents and belongings. Most were underage and in the process of seeking residency papers. “I was already scared but I am even more scared because I don’t know where to go,” said a 16-year-old boy who fled from conflict in Burkina Faso and arrived in France two...
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We’re just a few months away from the 2024 Olympics and host city Paris is gearing up for an influx of visitors. The French capital has put a special transport pass on sale which will allow sports fans to benefit from unlimited travel to all Olympic and Paralympic venues across the city throughout the Games. The regional transport operator, Île de France Mobilités, says the 'Paris 2024' travel pass is aimed at visitors, to make their journeys around the city more straightforward. How will the Paris Olympics transport pass work?The pass is now available to buy only as a physical card, but will ...
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Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled on Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies prevented the traditional lighting, when an actress dressed as an ancient Greek priestess uses the sun to ignite a silver torch after offering up a symbolic prayer to Apollo, the ancient Greek sun god. Instead, a backup flame was used that had been lit on the same spot Monday, during the final rehearsal. Normally, the foremost of a group of priestesses in long, pleated dresses dips the fuel-filled torch into a parabolic mirror...
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Fresh doubts have been cast on the possibility of Paris hosting Olympic swimming events in its polluted River Seine. Much excitement was generated by the announcement last year that the Seine will be open for public swimmers in 2025, after staging triathlon events this summer. But water sampling by the European arm of the Surfrider Foundation has revealed that bacteria - including “pollution of faecal origin” - remains dangerously high. “It is therefore clear that the athletes who will be taking part in the Olympic and Paralympic events planned for the Seine will be swimming in polluted water ...
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Fencing in the Grand Palais, show jumping in the Palace of Versailles and basketball on Place de la Concorde — there’s no doubt the Paris Olympics will have an air of the "wow factor". In just four months' time, we’ll see the French capital bursting at the seams with spectators flocking for 16 days of games, across 35 venues in the city. Despite concerns over whether the public transport system is fit for purpose, the 2024 Olympics claims it will be "the greenest in history". Spearheaded by mayor Anne Hidalgo’s sustainable vision for Paris, the aim is to reduce by more than half the carbon emi...
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