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2/21/2024 1:25:55 PM
Paris's iconic Eiffel Tower shut visitors out for a third straight day Wednesday as staff extended a strike over the monument's financing, unions told AFP.
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2/19/2024 1:43:56 PM
The Eiffel Tower, one of the world's top tourist attractions, was closed Monday after staff went on strike, unions told AFP.
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2/8/2024 12:26:10 PM
An Olympic medal inlaid with a chunk of the Eiffel Tower. How’s that for a monumental prize?
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12/27/2023 2:46:01 PM
The Eiffel Tower, one of the world's prime tourist attractions, was closed Wednesday after staff went on strike, the tower's operator said.
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8/12/2023 7:42:28 PM
The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France's most emblematic symbol, was evacuated for several hours on Saturday after a bomb alert.
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5/30/2023 3:51:54 PM
There will be 10,000 torchbearers to carry the Olympic flame as it passes through some 60 French departments ahead of the 2024 Games, Paris Olympic organisers announced on Tuesday.
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3/28/2023 4:20:43 PM
Protests and strikes against unpopular pension reforms gripped France again Tuesday, with many thousands marching and the Eiffel Tower closed and police ramping up security amid government warnings that radical demonstrators intended “to destroy, to injure and to kill."
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1/16/2023 11:31:32 PM
Up to 12,000 people marched Monday to the EU Parliament in the eastern French city of Strasbourg in support of Iran’s anti-government protesters while the Eiffel Tower lit the night with the slogan “Woman. Life. Freedom,” which embodies the protest movement spilling beyond Iran.
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9/13/2022 2:31:50 PM
Paris will start switching off the ornamental lights that grace city monuments hours earlier than usual, plunging the Eiffel Tower and other landmarks in the dark to cope with surging electricity costs, officials said Tuesday.
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11/1/2021 10:07:17 AM
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison denied that he had lied to France's President Emmanuel Macron while secretly negotiating a submarine deal with the United States and Britain, an accusation that has escalated a rift over Australia's surprise cancelation of a French deal.
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7/16/2021 4:46:25 PM
'Tourism is coming back to Paris and we can again share the happiness, with visitors from around the world, of this monument and Paris,' said Jean-Francois Martins, head of the tower's operating company
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9/23/2020 2:13:59 PM
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7/16/2020 3:05:10 PM
Cedric Chouviat, 42, died in hospital two days after a heated exchange with police officers who held him down, still wearing his scooter helmet, for about 20 seconds after his arrest near the Eiffel Tower in Paris
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6/25/2020 2:22:00 PM
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3/1/2020 2:21:25 PM
The Eiffel Bridge was designed by the French architect behind the world-famous Eiffel Tower
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5/20/2019 9:27:00 PM
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12/8/2018 8:26:20 AM
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12/6/2018 9:27:15 PM
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8/1/2018 6:57:37 PM
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7/27/2018 4:42:20 PM
The total eclipse, at 20:22 GMT, will last 1 hour, 42 minutes and 57 seconds, though a partial eclipse precedes and follows, according to NASA
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