AFGHANISTAN: Twenty killed in Taliban Kabul hotel attack
Twenty people are reported to have been killed after an overnight Taliban attack on a top Kabul hotel. The dead include the eight attackers, two police officers and nine civilians, according to...
View ArticleUS - FRANCE: US Judge allows Strauss-Kahn more time for civil case
A New York judge has given lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn more time to prepare their defence in a civil suit brought by Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel maid who accused the former IMF chief of sexual...
View ArticleFRANCE: Paris Hotel Ritz to close for two years for refit
Paris's Hotel Ritz, most recently famous as the place where Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed dined before their fatal car crash in 1997, is to close for more than two years from next summer for...
View ArticleFRANCE: Paris's Ritz hotel to fire 450+ during renovation
Paris’s world-famous Ritz hotel is set to fire over 450 employees and close for more than two years for renovation. Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi visits the Ritz for a meeting with French bossesReuters
View ArticleFRANCE - CANADA: Witnesses report seeing Canadian psycho in Paris and Clichy
French police swooped on a hotel in Bagnolet, just outside Paris, on Saturday after a report that Canadian alleged murderer, Luka Rocco Magnotta, had been spotted there. They are now certain the...
View ArticleFRANCE - SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi princess tries to sneak out of Paris hotel owing...
A Saudi princess was stopped by police as she tried to sneak out of a Paris luxury along with her 60-strong entourage, leaving unpaid bills worth six million euros. Staff called the cops when Maha...
View ArticleFRANCE: Nadal's 300,000-euro watch found near railway line after hotel thief...
A watch worth 300,000 euros which was on loan to tennis star Rafael Nadal, has been found by a railway track in the Paris suburbs. It was stolen from Nadal’s hotel room during the Roland Garros French...
View ArticleFRANCE - QATAR: Qatar buys four French luxury hotels and Le Figaro's offices
Qatari business interests are in the process of buying four of France’s swishest hotels, including Paris’s Concorde Lafayette and the famous Hôtel Martinez in Cannes. The emirate is also buying the...
View ArticleFRANCE: Record number of foreign tourists visit France in 2011
A record number of tourists visited France last year with the greatest increase coming from Russia, China and Brazil. Over one million Chinese sampled the delights of French hospitality in 2011 but...
View ArticleFRANCE - MIDDLE EAST: End of Ramadan saves France's tourist industry from wet...
The end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan looks set to have saved France’s tourist industry from a miserable year, thanks to rich Middle Eastern tourists descending on luxury hotels in Paris and on...
View ArticleFRANCE : Hundreds of Lourdes pilgrims evacuated due to floods
Hotels lodging several hundred pilgrims were evacuated in the south-western French city of Lourdes as torrential rains caused flooding in parts of the town and the sanctuaries they aimed to visit. The...
View ArticleFRANCE: French court puts off decision on Strauss-Kahn pimping trial
A French court is to rule on Wednesday on whether former International Monetary Fund (IMF) boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn will face trial on pimping charges. Three other sex-crime cases against...
View ArticleFRANCE: Paris world's most Facebook-liked city
Paris is the most liked city in the world … in the Facebook sense. More people have liked the French capital’s official Facebook page than those of New York, London or any other town that might aim to...
View ArticleFRANCE - UNITED STATES : Strauss-Kahn settles with Diallo for six million...
Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has agreed to pay New York hotel chambermaid Nafissatou Diallo six million dollars (4.64 million euros) in an out-of-court settlement of the attempted rape case...
View ArticleFRANCE - SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi princess's French property to be seized over...
A French court has ordered the property of a Saudi princess to be seized to pay off millions of euros-worth of unpaid bills for goods and services that included luxury hire-cars, chauffeurs,...
View ArticleFRANCE: Firefighters battle blaze at historic Paris mansion
Firefighters have brought a blaze in a historic Paris mansion after a six-hour battle with the flames. But they feared damage to artworks, including frescoes by 17th-century master Charles Le Brun, in...
View ArticleFRANCE: Armed robber grabs jewels worth 40 million euros from Cannes hotel
An armed robber made off with 40 million euros-worth jewellery from a hotel in the French Riviera resort of Cannes on Sunday morning, investigators say. The Carlton hotel in Cannes Patrick...
View ArticleFRANCE: Deadly hotel blaze trial exposes immigrant housing conditions
A famliy who ran a Paris hotel that burned to the ground in 2005, costing the lives of 24 people, including 11 children, opened in the French capital on Thursday. The victims were all immigrants...
View ArticleFRANCE: Landmark Paris hotel closes for three-year renovation
Paris's landmark art déco hotel, Le Lutetia, closed on Monday for renovations that will take three years and cost nearly 100 million euros. German intelligence made the hotel its headquarters during...
View ArticleFRANCE - BRUNEI: French celebrities call for boycott of Brunei-owned hotel...
Business tycoon François-Henri Pinault and fashion editor Anna Wintour are among hundreds of people here in France calling for a boycott of Paris’s Meurice Hotel, which is owned by the Sultan of...
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