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Anne Penketh

Anne Penketh is a freelance journalist and columnist based in Paris. She was posted to Moscow, Paris and New York for AFP news agency before joining The Independent, where she was Diplomatic Editor until 2009.

French Vigipirate troops mobilize next to Place de la Bastille in Paris

I’m bitter Isis has stolen my neighbourhood

Anne Penketh shops for fruit near her home in Paris

Sugar levels in what we eat and drink: Why the tide may finally be

Anne Penketh shops for fruit near her home in Paris

Sugar levels in what we eat and drink: Why the tide may finally be

Stéphane Charbonnier pictured in his office last October

Stéphane Charbonnier: Cartoonist and editor of Charlie Hebdo whose