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A despairing French government said multiple telecommunications links were hit by “cowardly” acts of vandalism early Monday morning, with fiber lines being taken out along with fixed and mobile phone infrastructure as cities around the country host events for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The artistic director of the LBGT-themed Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony has claimed he did not intend to portray the Last Supper.

A broadcaster for Eurosport was removed from covering the Paris 2024 Olympics after he made a seemingly sexist comment about the Australian women’s swimming team. Bob Ballard was heard making a comment about knowing “what women are like,” adding that

Minnesota Bishop Robert Barron described a statement from the organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympics, apologizing for an LGBTQ parody of the “Last Supper” during the opening ceremony, as “anything but an apology.”

Donald Trump Jr. on Saturday blasted the “leftist insanity” of the Olympics opening ceremonies in Paris, France.

Following the Olympic Opening Ceremony, which appeared to mock the Last Supper, major areas of Paris experienced a blackout on Saturday.

MEP Marion Maréchal urged the world to not blame France for the “left-wing minority” behind the anti-Christian insults during the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) praised the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris, France, as being “imaginative, inventive and memorable.”

Two staffers with the Olympic broadcast team for Australia’s Nine Entertainment were reportedly attacked during an attempted robbery.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz warned France that Jerusalem believes Iran is planning to attack the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.

China’s delegation to the 2024 Summer Olympics denied bringing air conditioning units to Paris on Thursday.

France’s national high-speed rail network was hit by “sabotage” on Friday that disrupted travel for tens of thousands of passengers. The malicious strikes came as travelers were expected to descend on the capital ahead of the start of the Paris Olympics.

Two members of the Canadian Olympic team were dismissed and “sent home immediately” on Wednesday after they were caught using a drone to “record the New Zealand women’s football [soccer] team during practice.”

President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to make France shine during the Paris Olympics which begin Friday, at the same time striving to reverse his political fortunes after they were left battered and bruised in the recent national elections.

French police on Tuesday arrested a 40-year-old Russian man suspected of planning to “organize events likely to cause destabilization during the Olympic Games.”

PARIS (AP) — French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla says she has been barred from Friday’s opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics because she wears a hijab, and the French Olympic Committee said it is working with her to find a solution that adheres to the team’s secular requirements for athletes.

Researchers from Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) told NBC News on Tuesday that a fake video of a purported Hamas operative threatening to attack the Paris Olympics appears to have originated in Russia.

Imprisoned 9/11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui fears he will be executed if former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.

PARIS — French rapper Naps must face trial for rape, an investigating magistrate has ruled, after allegedly assaulting a woman in her sleep in 2021.

Police in Paris, France, documented an alleged gang rape on Monday after an unnamed Australian woman reportedly stumbled in front of a kebab shop accusing five men, whose identity reportedly remain unknown at press time, of capturing and raping her throughout the night from Saturday into Sunday.

Russia’s team for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France, consists of just 15 people — a massive fall from the 330 athletes Russia sent to the 2021 Tokyo Summer Games, thanks to the international fallout from Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.

Israel’s delegation to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics received threatening emails referencing the 1972 Munich massacre, phone messages, and even fake invitations to their own funerals this weekend shortly before departing to France.

A French lawmaker declared that Israeli athletes are “not welcome” at the Paris Olympics and called for protests against Israeli participation.

France deployed 45,000 police and gendarmes, as well as 10,000 soldiers, to Paris for the largest military camp in Paris since World War II.

Argentine President Javier Milei fired a sports undersecretary who urged Lionel Messi to apologize for a racist song controversy.

An illegal migrant died in the English Channel as the crisis continues unabated under the new left-wing Labour Party government in Britain.

French security forces began locking down large parts of central Paris on Thursday ahead of the hugely complex Olympics opening ceremony next week on the river Seine.

The French Football Federation (FFF) announced on Tuesday that it will file a legal complaint before the global FIFA soccer authority over “racist and discriminatory” chants by Argentina’s national soccer team that went viral on social media.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo swam in the Seine River to supposedly show that the water is safe ahead of the Olympic Games.

Emmanuel Macron has decided to accept the resignation of his prime minister, leaving the France without a government able to actually govern.

Congolege man who stabbed and wounded a French soldier has been taken to a psychiatric hospital, French prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Paris hosted an extra-special guest for France’s national holiday – the Olympic flame lighting up the city’s Bastille Day military parade.

Britain’s border control disaster roars on with four more killed, having been put on an unseaworthy boat by killer human traffickers. 

The spire of Rouen Cathedral, not so long ago the world’s tallest building, was burning Thursday morning.

Macron congratulated the French people on having rejected the “extreme right” at the ballot box, despite the actual opposite having happened.

China’s state-run Global Times worries that “the influence of the far-right has not diminished” after France’s surprising snap election.