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From The Seine To The Danube: The Discreet Charms Of River Cruises

The popularity of cruises on the rivers of France and Europe is growing steadily with the wave of slow tourism. A way of traveling that reconciles freedom, concern for the environment and a different relationship with time.

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Society Weird

A Weird Week Indeed: Pyongyang Trash Balloons, Teen Orcas Go Wild, Driving While Stupid

Once again, this week didn’t get any less weird.

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Society Weird

A Weird Week Indeed: Millennial Saint, Gathering Of Kyles, Pet Gala

While busy delivering the best international journalism, the Worldcrunch team also stumbles on a fair deal of downright strange stuff happening around the world, reported in every language.

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Green Society

What Olympic Role For The River Seine? A Deeper Look

The Seine, the backbone of Paris’ Olympic celebrations, is being reclaimed as a recreational and transport hub. Does it mean Napoleon’s dream of a “Greater Paris” stretching all the way to the sea will finally happen?

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Daily Bread, A Local Currency For Paris?

The French capital is weighing whether to issue its own unique currency. But can I buy a baguette with that?

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Paris Officials Say Seine Is Too Dirty For A Swim

PARIS – The event was supposed to start on September 2 at 7 a.m. at the Josephine Baker swimming pool in Paris, on the banks of the Seine River. More than 3000 participants had signed up to take part in the swim that would take them up the Seine to the André-Citroën Park, west of […]

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