December 4, 2023
Salt Lake City being preferred as a shoo-in to host the 2034 Winter Olympics was expected. The surprise was the IOC favoring the French Alps bid for the 2030 edition on Wednesday. Aiming to finalize back-to-back Winter Games hosts next year, the International Olympic Committee executive board has decided to enter exclusive talks with Olympic
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The IOC’s decision came at the expense of bids from Switzerland and Sweden, and another leading candidate in Japan withdrew its bid. ADVERTISEMENT The French Alps, and the Mediterranean city of Nice, have become the unexpected frontrunners to host the 2030 Winter Olympics. The International Olympic Committee executive board gave the nod to France at
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According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), temperatures in this region of the Alps will rise by between one and three degrees Celsius by 2050, and between three and six degrees by the end of the century The Adamello, the largest glacier in the Italian Alps, is slowly dying because of global warming.
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Rail operator SNCF said that ‘access to the site is still forbidden because there is still a risk of rock falls’. Train services between France and Italy have been halted until Thursday at the earliest, after a huge rockslide in the Maurienne valley of the French Alps which also blocked some roads, officials said Monday.
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Updated: 28/08/2023 – 22:06 Train services between France and Italy have been halted for the foreseeable future after a huge rockslide in the Maurienne valley in the French Alps blocked some railways and roads. Train services between France and Italy have been halted for the foreseeable future after a huge rockslide in the Maurienne valley
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His death is one of history’s oldest cold cases. High in the Italian Alps 5,300 years ago, Ötzi the iceman was shot in the back with an arrow and likely bled to death within minutes. Having collapsed in the ice, his body was then preserved until it was discovered in 1991 — making him Europe’s
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An eight-month investigation revealed a massive, growing operation near Grenoble. This week, police confiscated 4,000 cannabis vines, worth about 1,100 kg, from a vast covered warehouse owned by French and Albanian citizens in a village in southeastern France. After an eight-month investigation, six people were arrested and jailed in connection with the takeover in Morette,
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A knife-wielding man stabbed to death four preschool children and wounded two adults near a lake in the French Alps on Thursday in an attack that shocked the entire country. The suspect is a Syrian in his 30s who was granted refugee status in Sweden in April, a police source told AFP. He was arrested
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A Syrian citizen was arrested Thursday after allegedly stabbing four children and an adult on the street. city of Annecy in the French Alps in a knife attack that President Emmanuel Macron denounces as an act of “absolute cowardice.” An eyewitness told BFMTV after the stabbing episode that he saw first responders working on “small
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Last summer, the Alps were free of snow for the first time, according to a grim climate report. Record temperatures were recorded at the European test site in 2022 Absence of snow cover was exacerbated by abnormal heat and gusts of Saharan dust. The study comes amid concerns about the effects of climate change. TO
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