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☆ Eiffel Tower: Joy for maker of tallest matchstick landmark as record refusal reversed
  + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
Paris Reuters —Guinness World Records on Thursday told Frenchman Richard Plaud that his 7.2 meter (23.6 feet) matchstick Eiffel Tower was a record height, a day after rejecting it for using the wrong matches. “For eight years, I’ve always thought that I was building the tallest matchstick structure,” he told Reuters. However, Guinness World Records initially told him he didn’t make the cut as he hadn’t used matches that were “commercially available.”The tower is nearly 24 feet tall. Richard Plaud/ReutersPlaud started off by using commercial matches, cutting the head off each. Tired of this tedious process, he asked the manufacturer if he could buy just the wooden sticks without the head, prompting Guinness to refuse his record.
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☆ French prosecutors search banks in Paris in global tax fraud probe
  + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
Paris Reuters —French authorities searched the Paris offices of five banks Tuesday, including Societe Generale, BNP Paribas and HSBC, on suspicion of fiscal fraud. The search was part of a broad European probe into the dodging of tax payments on dividends. BNP Paribas and HSBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The French prosecutors’ actions are the latest to hit global banks over the dividend tax fraud scheme. Stock in BNP Paribas rose 0.4%, while HSBC’s stock was flat.
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