Eiffel Tower goes dark during protest
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The Eiffel Tower's 20,000 sparkling bulbs went dark for five minutes Thursday night and the lights went out at the Colosseum in Rome and the Greek parliament in Athens in a demonstration of concern about climate change across the European continent.
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Environmental campaign groups will today protest at Dublin Castle against their exclusion from social partners discussions.Comment
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What&#39;s wrong with this picture? The airspace over the city is declared off-limits to all unauthorized aircraft. Some 200 police, including rooftop snipers and antiterror
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The Tampa Bay Lightning were supposed to raise their Stanley Cup championship banner this week to kick off the new season. Instead, the arena that rocked during the finals in June will be dark because of a labor dispute that shows no sign of ending soon.
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Arriving at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris on a Sunday was quite nightmarish.
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Paris's Eiffel Tower reopened to impatient tourists after a three-day strike by workers concerned about job security, the management of the world-famous monument said.
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Hundreds of thousands of French people took part in demonstrations across the country to protest against government plans to reform the 35-hour work week.
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German and French employees of Airbus take to the streets in response to fears of potential cutbacks at the planemaker.
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A anti-nuclear protester has died after his leg was severed by a train carrying atomic waste from France to Germany. The 23-year-old lay down on the track as the train passed near the town of Avricourt, eastern France.
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Six people died, thousands of homes were blacked out and air traffic delayed as violent storms hit northern France. Tourist hotspots like the Eiffel Tower reopened today after yesterdayâs hurricane-force
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Paris - Some 40 000 French homes were still without electricity on Saturday, a day after a powerful storm lashed Paris and large areas of northern and eastern France killing six people.
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Thousands of disgruntled taxi drivers disrupted traffic on the streets of France's main cities on Wednesday, protesting against plans to deregulate their industry.
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Power to the SkyDome and surrounding areas went off for about an hour yesterday afternoon, and officials say the reason could have been a raccoon in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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An international design competition for a new tower in St. Petersburg has drawn protests from critics who say the project will kill the city.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Lights flickered off and cameras went dark Thursday as NASA powered down a large section of the international space station to allow two spacewalking astronauts to start rewiring the orbiting outpost.  U.S.
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What do you get when you pour 13 lanes of cars, trucks and buses into a traffic circle that, because of construction, has been reduced to three lanes, during rush hour on a Friday night in Paris? Another French Revolution.
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Beijing, in solidarity with millions of people facing the Lunar New Year without power, will turn off thousands of "holiday lights" lining the capital's main streets each night an hour earlier than usual.