Eleanor Beardsley
Stories
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Europe
How the European Union is preparing for the second Trump presidency
Members of the European Union Are Preparing With Caution and, At Times, Keenness for the Second Trump Presidency.
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Europe
Gisele Pelicot, victim in mass rape trial in France, gives last day of testimony
The victim at the center of a mass rape trial in France gave her closing statement in a French court. She denounced French society as macho and patriarchal, called it a society that trivializes rape.
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National
In France, a family reckons with World War II Allies' legacy of rape and murder
In 1944, as Allied troops celebrated D-Day victory, a French family experienced a trauma that would be felt for generations: a murder and sexual assault so traumatic they are only now coming to terms with it.
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D-Day is celebrated as a day of liberation. For one French family, there was a price
French families recall rapes committed by a handful of GIs after D-Day. A note to listeners that this piece mentions sexual assault.
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Europe
Paris prepares for Israel-France soccer game despite fears of violence
Paris police deploy in force to prevent antisemitic and other violence as France and Israeli soccer teams play on Thursday.
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Arts & Life
How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris
The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2022, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in southern France.
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Politics
Paris bargoers choose next U.S. president in straw poll in century-old tradition
In one Paris bar, predicting the outcome of the U.S. presidential election is a long tradition. For over a century, a straw poll taken there has been pretty accurate at predicting the winner.
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World
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors group
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo. Its members are survivors of the August 1945 U.S. nuclear bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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World
A Japanese organization of atomic bombing survivors wins the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize
The Japanese grassroots group Nihon Hidankyo, an organization of World War II atomic bombing survivors, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to create a world free of nuclear weapons.
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Democracy may be at stake in Tunisia's presidential election
Could this weekend's election in Tunisia sound the death knell for democracy in its third presidential election since the Arab spring?
