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Thursday, July 17, 2003
posted by gbarto at 6:18 AM:
Here they come! It's the French news headlines!Ouest-France: Vacations in the Great West End in Mourning Due to Violent Storms. Seven dead, including two foreign tourists. The second story, "The Fright of My Life," is a series of interviews with campers at a park where a 16-year old boy was killed when a tree fell on his tent.
Le Figaro: Weather: The Rage of Summer. Here's the summary graf:
The Dog Days continue their ravages. After drying out the crops, asphyxiating the rivers, polluting the towns, and destroying hectares and hectares of forests, they've killed seven people, including two, indirectly, in a fire in Sarthe, between Tuesday night and Wednesday...Visitors from last night will recall that a mother and son were killed when one of the candles they were using because of a power outage was upset and burned down their home; these were the deaths indirectly attributed to the storm.
Le Monde: Nationalists Walk Out of Corsican Assembly. Between the referendum on greater independence for Corsica and the trials for those complicit in the killing of Prefect Erignac, they've had it.
Libé: Brussels Makes Restaurateurs Salivate- with a plan to lower the VAT from 19.6% to 5.5%. Libé is also the first place I've seen photos from the Santa Monica disaster (see post below). It is, for the moment, part of their revolving photo album of images from the day.
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