Toyota Hilux

Pont de l'Archevêché shows the padlocks that people have attached.

Paris wants all of you lovers to stop putting locks on its bridges

Global Scan

Paris is the city of lovers, but maybe a little less today. Paris bridges have long been a spot people publicly declared their love — with a lock. But a new effort seeks to stop that trend. Meanwhile, an account from the New York Review of Books looks at the day in the 2000s when the NSA metadata gathering program nearly died. That and more in today’s Global Scan.Paris is the city of lovers, but maybe a little less today. Paris bridges have long been a spot people publicly declared their love — with a lock. But a new effort seeks to stop that trend. Meanwhile, an account from the New York Review of Books looks at the day in the 2000s when the NSA metadata gathering program nearly died. That and more in today’s Global Scan.

Rebels operating under the Free Syrian Army sit in a Hilux pickup truck

This one Toyota pickup truck is at the top of the shopping list for the Free Syrian Army — and the Taliban

Conflict & Justice
Rebels operating under the Free Syrian Army sit in a Hilux pickup truck

This one Toyota pickup truck is at the top of the shopping list for the Free Syrian Army — and the Taliban

Conflict & Justice