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Daily News… POET CLIMBER ASCENDS US EMBASSY IN PARIS A self-styled «poet climber» on Thursday managed to sidestep security, climb on to a roof adjacent to the US embassy building in Paris and spend two hours there before being helped down by fire fighters. Herve Couasnon, whose previous stunts have included sneaking into France’s National Assembly and a nuclear power station, told AFP by phone from the roof that he wanted to meet Barack Obama, give the president his CV and talk peace -- a reference to Obama’s ongoing Middle East trip. Emergency services established a security cordon around the embassy and readied a safety net for fear the eccentric bus driver might fall or jump from his position, straddled over metal railings on the edge of the roof. Fire fighters used a ladder to reach him in his precarious situation and he came down without resistance. Embassy spokesman Mitchell Moss denied the incident had exposed lax security. «This is not considered a breach of either embassy security or embassy property,» Moss told AFP. «He was never on embassy property, he was on an adjacent building separated from our embassy roof by a fence which he never crossed. «There are two fences up there - a smaller fence that separates the buildings and a taller barbed wire fence that is actually on our roof. He never crossed on to our roof. «It was a situation that was dealt with very professionally by the French emergency services.» In 2002, Couasnon made headlines after making his way into the National Assembly as then prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin was speaking. He was able to present the premier with a sports trophy before stewards ushered him out. The 54-year-old, from Perigueux in southwestern France, claims to have scaled the US embassy once before, during the 1991 Gulf war.
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International News… A DELUGE OF INSULTS Chinese Internet users have deluged the microblog of the Russian embassy in Beijing with thousands of abusive comments within days of its opening, just ahead of a visit to Moscow by China’s new president Xi Jinping. The Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949 when its forces finally triumphed in the country’s long civil war, and for a time it was closely allied with the Soviet Union. They later split, but since the collapse of the USSR commercial and political ties between China and Russia have grown, and the two countries now cooperate on a range of issues at the United Nations.
POLES CHASE AWAY WINTER Clutching a gaudy homemade doll in flames, students gathered Thursday on a frosty footbridge in central Poland to toss it into the river -- an ancient rite repeated across the country every March 21. Chanting «Evil winter begone!», the students joined winterweary Poles nationwide in the centuries-old tradition of burning «Marzanna» dolls to cast away the cold, illness and all other misery. «The initial plan was to drown one of the girls from class, but our teacher said no,» joked Piotr Soldanski, 14, drawing laughs from his classmates in the town of Sierpc.