39 h. ago Former GOP aide paid body modification artist to brutally mutilate her then said it was an anti

The staffer allegedly gave $500 to a body modification artist so that he would carve deep scars into her body, as part of her alleged scheme

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8 d. ago ‘The pain remains’: France remembers victims of 2015 Paris attacks

Bells ring out across French capital marking 10th anniversary of country’s deadliest peacetime attackParis attacks anniversary – in picturesFrance has paid tribute to the 130 people killed 10 years ago by Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers who targeted a stadium, bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall in the country’s deadliest peacetime attack.“The pain remains,” Emmanuel Macron wrote on social media on Thursday as he visited each of the sites that were attacked. Bells rang out across the city as a remembrance ceremony began at a memorial garden in central Paris attended by relatives and survivors. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago France commemorates victims of Paris attacks 10 years on – in pictures

France pays tribute to the 130 people killed during a rampage by Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers targeting cafes, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall in 2015. The attacks were the deadliest on French soil since the second world war, prompting emergency security measures, many of which are now embedded in law Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Ten years since the Bataclan attacks, deep scars remain in France and beyond

A decade ago today, gunmen stormed into Paris’ famed concert hall and opened fire on 1,500 people. James C. Reynolds looks at how France was shaken by the massacre

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9 d. ago ‘I didn’t want to be afraid’: How the music community rallied together in the wake of the Bataclan attack

As the world marks 10 years since the terrorist attacks in Paris, Roisin O’Connor speaks with some of the musicians who helped reopen the stricken venue, as well as the sister of British victim Nick Alexander, on how music brought a grieving community together

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9 d. ago I saved pregnant woman world saw hanging out Bataclan window now we’re like siblings, says survivor on 10th anniversary

TWO rock fans will today mark ten years since the day they met – when one of them saved the other’s life in the most terrifying setting imaginable. As gun-wielding IS terrorists rampaged around them massacring 89 people at Paris’s Bataclan music venue, a pregnant woman identified only as Charlotte clung on for life to...

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9 d. ago Pregnant woman who survived Bataclan attack speaks for first time after 10 years

A woman who was two months pregnant as she survived the Bataclan attack 10 years ago reveals the hero who saved her life became her daughter's godfather

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9 d. ago Girlfriend of Brit killed in Bataclan terror attack pays tribute to her 'eternal'

Helen Wilson and Nick Alexander were watching American rock band Eagles of Death Metal when three gunmen burst into the Paris music venue and opened fire on 1,500 fans

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9 d. ago France honors victims 10 years after attacks at Bataclan concert hall, cafes and national stadium

France is paying tribute to victims of the 2015 Paris attacks, marking 10 years since the tragedy

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3 w. ago Director of Bataclan terror attack drama rejects accusations of ‘indecency’

Jean-Xavier de Lestrade defends decision to film mini-series inside Paris theatre where 130 people died in 2016The Oscar-winning director of a TV mini-series about survivors of the 2015 terrorist attack at the Bataclan in Paris has rejected accusations his decision to film inside the theatre was “indecent”.Jean-Xavier de Lestrade said the hostages on whose story the eight-part docudrama was based wanted their terrifying ordeal recreated inside the building and to film it elsewhere would have been “trickery”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago UK can ‘defy’ gloomy forecasts despite productivity problems, says Chancellor

Rachel Reeves argued that austerity, Brexit and the pandemic had left ‘deep scars’ on the UK’s economy.

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3 w. ago Hurricane Melissa: Why the 'supercharged' Category 5 storm approaching Jamaica is so powerful

Scientists say the country will be left with a deep and permanent scar from this ‘beast of a storm’ 🌪

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