In France, officials are working to secure safety at the future sites of the Rugby World Cup and the 2024 Olympic Games. One of the threats that are the highest…
Continue ReadingTemperatures in France are unseasonally high for the end of October. In Paris, hovering around 24 degrees celcius. But France isn’t the only country seeing rising temperatures. Heatwaves persisting until…
Continue ReadingAmid a push in #France to index #salaries to #inflation, we take a look at the potential risks and benefits of such measures, which exist in a number of European…
Continue ReadingA 12-year-old schoolgirl named Lola – who was raped and murdered at her apartment complex in Paris – has become a cause célèbre for France’s anti-immigration parties, after an Algerian…
Continue ReadingIndustrial metals firm Imerys plans to open one of Europe’s largest lithium mines near a town in central France by 2027 to help support the continent’s move towards electric vehicles,…
Continue ReadingWorkers at a TotalEnergies biorefinery and a fuel depot in northern France have ended their strikes, a CGT union official said on Thursday, as a near-month-long wave of industrial action…
Continue ReadingIn this episode of French Connections, we put the spotlight on one of France’s most famous national monuments: the Mont-Saint-Michel. “The Medieval City on a Rock!” is an architectural marvel…
Continue ReadingThe government of French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said it would push the 2023 budget bill through the lower house of parliament using rarely used constitutional powers to override…
Continue ReadingAfter three weeks of blockades, strikes at sites owned by French oil giant TotalEnergies were starting to ease on Wednesday, although uncertainty remains over fuel supply as the country heads…
Continue ReadingIranian climber Elnaz Rekabi returned to Tehran early Wednesday after competing in South Korea without wearing a headscarf, an act widely seen as support for anti-government demonstrators amid weeks of…
Continue ReadingRussian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday introduced martial law in Ukraine’s Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions that Moscow claims to have annexed. "I signed a decree to introduce martial…
Continue ReadingThe French government is poised to wield a rarely used constitutional weapon to force its budget through parliament, where opposition groups have stymied the text for weeks with rival amendments,…
Continue ReadingMali’s foreign affairs minister on Tuesday said the military government would exercise its right to self-defence if France continued to undermine the West African country’s sovereignty and national security. France…
Continue ReadingThe French government is poised to wield a rarely used constitutional weapon to force its budget through parliament, where opposition groups have stymied the text for weeks with rival amendments,…
Continue ReadingThe French government is poised to wield a rarely used constitutional weapon to force its budget through parliament, where opposition groups have stymied the text for weeks with rival amendments,…
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