Paris, France, Jan 28, 2026 (AFP) - 'I am a knight': Paris' last newspaper hawker gets top French award

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2026-01-28

Ali Akbar Akbar has been homeless, experienced extreme poverty and had been attacked. On Wednesday, President Emmanuel Macron made Pakistan-born Akbar, believed to be the last newspaper hawker in Paris, a knight in the national order of merit in recognition of his service to France. The French president praised Akbar's "incredible destiny", thanking the septuagenarian for arriving from Pakistan decades ago, selling newspapers for 50 years and c......

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