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IOC seeks pathway to let Russians compete at 2024 Paris Olympics

By Graham Dunbar, Associated Press

The IOC has made clear it wants Russians to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics as neutral athletes. That's in defiance of Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy's call to exclude Russians entirely in Paris in 18 months' time.

Kurds, anti-racist activists gather in Paris after deadly cultural center shooting

By Jeffrey Schaeffer, Angela Charlton, Associated Press

Kurdish activists, left-wing politicians and anti-racism groups demonstrated Saturday in Paris after three people were killed at a Kurdish cultural center in an attack that prosecutors say was racially motivated.

Suspect arrested in shooting that killed 3 at Kurdish center in Paris

By Angela Charlton, Jade le Deley, Associated Press

A man who was charged last year with attacking migrants shot and killed three people at a Kurdish cultural center Friday in Paris in an assault that appeared to be specifically aimed at foreigners, authorities said.

International allies meet, pledge more aid to get Ukraine through winter

By Sylvie Corbet, Inna Varenytsia, John Leicester, Associated Press

Dozens of countries and international organizations threw their weight and more than 1 billion euros (dollars) in aid pledges behind an urgent new push Tuesday to keep Ukraine powered, fed, warm and moving amid the onset of winter.

Eiffel Tower to go dark earlier as Paris saves energy

By Nicolas Garriga, Barbara Surk, Associated Press

The French capital, like the rest of Europe, faces the risk of power shortages this winter amid dwindling supplies of natural gas from Russia.

News Wrap: Death toll rises to 53 in Texas after migrants were found in abandoned truck

In our news wrap Wednesday, the death toll rose to 53 in San Antonio, Texas, after migrants were found in an abandoned truck, the Supreme Court allows an Army veteran to sue Texas over claim that burn pits in Iraq…

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Paris marks bloody mary cocktail’s 100th birthday

By Alex Turnbull, Associated Press

Harry's Bar in Paris is celebrating the 100th birthday of the bloody mary, the vodka-tomato juice cocktail believed to have been invented at the iconic watering hole in 1921.

5 Stories: World’s largest carbon capture plant goes online, Paris landmark goes undercover and other stories you missed

By Deema Zein, Julia Griffin

The world’s largest carbon capture plant is up and running in Iceland, workers fulfill artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s posthumous dream of wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in fabric and school districts across the country face bus driver shortages. Check out…

2015 Paris attacks suspect claims deaths of 130 people was ‘nothing personal’

By Lori Hinnant, Associated Press

Nine Islamic State group gunmen and suicide bombers struck within minutes of one another at several locations around Paris on Nov. 13, 2015.

Paris terror trial opens for 20 accused in 2015 attacks

By Lori Hinnant, Nicolas Vaux-Montagny, Associated Press

Nine Islamic State group gunmen and suicide bombers struck within minutes of one another at several locations around Paris on Nov. 13, 2015, leaving 130 people dead and hundreds wounded.