\n Pop superstar Celine Dion has announced that she’s returning to the stage with a series of concerts in Paris. The announcement of her comeback has her fans going wild. In a new record, nine million people registered for a chance to purchase one of 450,000 tickets available. We speak with music journalist Jasmine Shemesh about Dion\u2019s enduring popularity. <\/p>\n
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The new mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko held a rally against racism in front of his city’s town hall. His election has sparked a national debate on racial discrimination, and he says he’s been the target of racist abuse.<\/p>\n
Tensions show no sign of easing between Washington and Paris, after US President Donald Trump mocked his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron’s relationship with his wife.<\/p>\n
And, Paris’s new mayor, Emmanuel Gregoire, pledged to prioritize preventing sexual violence in after school-programs- after allegations that poorly recruited school monitors abused preschool pupils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop superstar Celine Dion has announced that she’s returning to the stage with a series of concerts in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[191556,21158,156,1221,157,111,139,69,42120,76626],"class_list":{"0":"post-364340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-a-week-in-france","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-racism","17":"tag-sexual-assault"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}