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Paris braces for floods as swollen Seine inches higher

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Paris braces for floods as swollen Seine inches higherParis was on alert Saturday as the swollen Seine crept higher, with forecasters expecting the flooding to peak before the weekend is out. Tourists suffered too with the capital’s famous Bateaux Mouches rivercraft out of service, and only emergency services authorised to navigate the Seine. Leaks started to appear in some basements in Paris on Friday, while some residents on the city’s outskirts were forced to travel by boat through waterlogged streets.