
Paris police have blockaded the area around the Eiffel Tower after a phone-in bomb threat on Wednesday. Police cars and tape surrounded the streets below the tower and the bridge stretching across the Seine River to Trocadero Plaza, Reuters news agency reported. Some tourists were still walking in the area, ...

France’s foreign ministry on Friday said that there was no evidence to suggest Hezbollah was storing chemicals to make explosives in France after a senior US official alleged the resistance group had set up caches in Europe since 2012. “To our knowledge, there is nothing tangible to confirm such an ...