But French newspapers immediately reacted with alarming headlines about new taxes, and several papers quickly renamed the minister "Madame Taxe."
Some Italian newspapers reacted playfully to the announcement.
In 1881, the school staged a cricket match against another school, to which a local newspaper reacted with hostility.
Although the dead actually numbered no more than thirteen or fourteen suspected opium smugglers, Japanese newspapers reacted to their deaths with outrage and demanded armed intervention.
Hard-line newspapers have also reacted with anger, raising fears that the international stature Ms. Ebadi has earned may not shield her.
In each of the markets Rumbo entered in recent months, the dominant English-language newspaper has reacted with pre-emptive attacks, creating or buying newspapers to compete with Rumbo's tabloids.
The new, close-to-home initiatives, he said, are a sign that newspapers are no longer reacting to the dragons of the new-media world.
Other newspapers reacted to the Tour's route as "dangerous" and "bizarre".
And some newspapers reacted stronger than others.
Foreign newspapers were reacting with outrage.