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Eiffel Tower reopens after bomb threat, evacuation (AP)

September 15th, 2010

Police officers stand in front of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, Tuesday Sept. 14, 2010. Paris' Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat. About 2,000 people were cleared from the 324 meter (1,063-ft.) monument on the banks of the Seine River, and police were checking it for suspicious objects. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - The Eiffel Tower has reopened a day after being evacuated because of a bomb threat from an anonymous caller.


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Police: Eiffel Tower bomb threat was false alarm (AP)

September 15th, 2010

A police officer stands front the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, Tuesday Sept. 14, 2010. Paris' Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat. About 2,000 people were cleared from the 324 meter (1,063-ft.) monument on the banks of the Seine River, and police were checking it for suspicious objects. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - The Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat, but explosives experts scoured France’s most-visited monument and…

Reports: Eiffel Tower bomb threat was false alarm (AP)

September 14th, 2010

A police officer stands front the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, Tuesday Sept. 14, 2010. Paris' Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat. About 2,000 people were cleared from the 324 meter (1,063-ft.) monument on the banks of the Seine River, and police were checking it for suspicious objects. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - The area under Paris’ Eiffel Tower has been opened up to tourists again after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat and police combed through the famous…

Pope’s ivory tower past adds to his detachment (AP)

April 11th, 2010

FILE - In this April 7, 2010 file photo Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Long before entering Vatican life, Pope Benedict XVI won renown as a theologian and a German university professor, penning more than forty books and winning a devoted following of students who respected his prodigious memory and briliant mind. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)AP - Long before entering Vatican life, Pope Benedict XVI won renown as a theologian and a German university professor, penning more than 40 books and winning a devoted following…

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