PARIS Cheap Air Jordan For Sale , Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- After a dark year of 2016, the number of tourists to Paris Ile-de-France, the greater Paris region, in the first half of 2017 has climbed back to the highest in 10 years, the tourism committee of the region announced on Tuesday.
The first six months of this year registered 16.4 million hotel arrivals Cheap Jordan Retro For Sale , increased by 10.2 percent, compared to the same period last year, according to a report published by the committee.
Arrivals from abroad and France have both increased, by 14.9 percent and 6.4 percent, respectively.
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"The signs are clearly green for the tourism industry in Paris Ile-de-France," said Frederic Valletoux, president of the committee, attributing the rise to successful promotion campaigns and the quality improvement in the hospitality sector.
He added that the Paris tourism industry must continue to work hard to set high standards for "welcoming visitors from around the world to the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games."
The committee's figures show that in 2016 Paris Ile-de-France lost around 1.5 million tourists compared to the previous year, mainly due to security concerns following the Paris terrorist attacks in November 2015 Nike Air Jordan Shoes For Sale , which killed 130 people.
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NAIROBI, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Olympic javelin silver medallist Julius Yego of Kenya has vowed he will be back in his best form after a recurrent ankle injury blighted his performance at the London World Championships.
Yego failed to score in his first attempt but returned to throw 76.29 and 75.31 to bow out of the championship in last position.
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Yego said it was the same groin injury that almost cost him the Commonwealth Games victory in 2014 in Glasgow.
"Even though I won I was in great pain. It's the same problem that saw me withdraw from the Olympics after the third throw," said Yego, who, however, went on to win silver in Rio.
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Starting off the season with an ankle injury, the groin injury took the wind out of Yego's sails but the Kenyan is adamant he will be strong enough to challenge for medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.
"I felt some piercing pain in the groin on my right leg after the first attempt. I tried to get some good momentum in the second and third attempts but I just couldn't," said Yego.
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CANBERRA， Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Australian government has not ruled out working with Russia in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group in the Middle East， the nation's defense minister said Sunday.
Following high-level international defense talks in Brussels last week， at which Australia's Defense Minister Marise Payne met with counterparts including U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis， the Australian government has said it would consider working with Russia to get a desirable outcome in war-torn Syria.
"Australia is willing to work with any nation that is willing to make a constructive contribution to the fight against (Islamic State)，" Payne told Fairfax Media on Sunday.
"As matters advance in Syria， these are matters the government will consider but I'm not going to make any further comment on that at the moment."
Australia has previously been hesitant to throw its support behind Russia's foray into the Middle East， but following the election of Donald Trump， the United States， Australia's closest ally， has indicated it was open to forming closer ties with the Kremlin to defeat IS.
Payne's comments came after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he was also open to the idea of increasing Australia's presence in the region， if requested by Australia's military allies.
"(But) I should say that Australia already has one of the largest， if not the largest presence in the alliance against IS， other than the United States in forei.