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Aytac Unal/Anadolu via Getty Images (PARIS) — The 2024 Paris Summer games are set to formally kickoff Friday in what will be an opening ceremony like no other before its time. There will be all of the pageantry and spectacle you’d come to expect from an Olympics opening ceremony, only there will be one big […]

Andrea Mantovani/Bloomberg via Getty Images (LONDON) — The City of Light is battling an infestation of bedbugs as it prepares to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. Videos recently posted on social media purportedly show the tiny, bloodsucking insects crawling on public transport in Paris and even in Charles de Gaulle Airport. With the Olympic Games […]

Ibrahim Ezzat/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (PARIS) — Dozens of people were injured and hundreds were sent running for safety in central Paris after an explosion caused by a suspected gas leak rocked the city Wednesday afternoon, according to police and firefighters. The incident took place around 4:55 p.m. local time at the Paris American Academy […]

Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images (PARIS) — Police were searching offices associated with organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Tuesday as part of two financial investigations, French officials said. “A police search is currently underway at the headquarters of the Organising Committee,” the Paris 2024 committee, COJOP, said in a statement. “Paris 2024 is […]

Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images (PARIS) — As ticket sales for the 2024 Paris Olympics get underway, some online reviewers have begun to raise concerns about what they see as the flaws of a new sales system. A new ticket draw registration was implemented for these Games, which start in July 2024. Ticket buyers had […]

Bernard Van Berg / EyeEm/Getty Images (PARIS) — A man who left at least six people injured in an attack at the Gare Du Nord station in Paris early Wednesday morning was shot by police and hospitalized, authorities said. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Twitter that “an individual injured several people this morning at […]