Olympics in Paris 2024
Olympic effect affects tourism in Paris - fewer travelers
As Paris prepares for the Olympics, the mega-event has put some travelers off, reports French newspaper Le Monde. Something that is criticized by the hotel industry.
- People postpone their plans or come for the Olympics, says Corinne Menegaux, head of the Paris tourist office.
- In the end, the good results we achieve during the Olympics will only compensate for the current decline, says Olivier Cohn, Best Western France CEO.
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Bangladesh threatened by snakes - stockpiles antidote
Authorities in Bangladesh have ordered the country's hospitals and health centers to stockpile antidote, the BBC writes. This after the country saw an increase in snakebites.
Health Minister Samanta Lal Sen has also urged the public to take snakebitten people to hospital as soon as possible.
Scientists believe that the snake responsible for the increase - Russel's viper - has been able to adapt to different climatic conditions and has spread in different districts of the country.
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The debate about "The Black Swan"
The mole speaks out: "My family life is ruined"
The lawyer Amira Smajic is one of Denmark's most talked about people after the documentary series "The Black Swan". She assumes that she is on the death list of several criminal gangs and has gone underground, she says in an interview with Berlingske, which is her first since the series aired.
Smajic says she can no longer go out on the street and that her family life is ruined "indefinitely".
- My future feels like standing on a deserted island. Home, work, everyday life - everything seems completely impossible, she says according to DN.
As a lawyer, Smajic worked for ten years helping criminals escape the long arm of the law, for example by laundering money. To show how closely the lower and upper world are connected, she had hidden cameras set up in her office and acted as a mole for Danish TV2's journalists.
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Vienna's sausage stands hope to be listed as cultural heritage
An owner of 15 sausage stands in Vienna has created a lobby group and applied last week to have "Vienna's sausage stand culture" inscribed as intangible cultural heritage by Unesco, reports AFP.
- We want to create a kind of quality stamp for Vienna's hot dog kiosk, says Patrick Tondel, one of the lobby group's creators.
His family founded the city's oldest kiosk that is still in operation.
- In the sausage kiosk, everyone is the same... it again matters if you are a top banker who owns hundreds of thousands of euros or if you have to scrape together the last few euros to buy a sausage.
Here you meet, you can talk to everyone, he explains.
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