IOC heritage collection sparks controversy as 1936 Berlin Olympics T-shirt sells out
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has come under fire after its official online shop launched an “Olympic Heritage Collection” featuring merchandise…
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has come under fire after its official online shop launched an “Olympic Heritage Collection” featuring merchandise…
Sports journalists at Italian public broadcaster RAI are going on strike over a gaffe-filled commentary of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony by the head of their…
Agents from the US immigration enforcement agency ICE will have no operational role in the Winter Olympics, Italy's interior minister said Wednesday, two days before…
French security services have reported they prevented several terrorist attacks during the Paris Olympics and Paralympics Games.
South Korea has deployed a bedbug sniffer dog at its main Incheon international airport in a bid to reduce the risk of the tiny insects entering the country when…
NGO Surfrider Foundation France has accused the Paris Olympics committee of hiding poor Seine quality figures.
In several places in France, vandals have destroyed installations belonging to telephone operators SFR, Free and Bouygues.
The Seine in Paris is still too dirty to swim in despite French President Emmanuel Macron's plan to reduce the amount of excrement-related contaminants in the river.
Militant far-left activists could have been behind the sabotaging of France's high-speed rail, interior minister Gérald Darmanin has said.
In the midst of the rain-soaked opening ceremony of the Olympics, President Macron tweeted: "This is France." He was right, though perhaps not in the way he intended.
As France prepares to host the Olympic Games from July 26, the government of President Emmanuel Macron has put 75,000 police, soldiers, and hired guards on the streets…
Israeli athletes taking part in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will be granted "full protection", France's government has promised.
Two weeks before the Olympic Games are set to kick off in Paris, Qatari security forces, equipped with armoured vehicles and urban camouflage livery, arrived in…
France has unveiled a system of compulsory QR-code passes for travel throughout Paris, with the new system reportedly being implemented to reduce the threat of terrorism…
The opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics will be invite-only - to combat the possible threat of terrorism - the French Government announced.
French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to jump in the river Seine as he officially inaugurated the 2024 Olympic village and praised the legacy the Games will leave…
The opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris may be abandoned over terror fears, French President Emmanuel Macron has warned.
Camelia Toldea has packed her family's suitcases ready for a quick exit from an abandoned building where she and dozens of other Roma live, fearful the squat will…
France's health minister has urged the public not to panic as both France and Belgium succumb to a plague of blood-sucking bedbugs.
A year before the Olympic Games in Paris, experts say there is a worrying lack of security personnel.