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As the Middle East war disrupts global oil supplies and refining costs soar, diesel prices in France have reached record levels, making them among the highest in the EU....
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As fuel prices spike across France more and more petrol stations are reporting shortages. So in which parts of the country will you find it the hardest to fill up your tank this week?...
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A tightrope walker crossed a 400-metre wire between Europe's two highest slag heaps in Loos-en-Gohelle, France, watched by over 9,000 people on Sunday....
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's whirlwind visit to the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon on Sunday was an opportunity to showcase a tactical and symbolic partnership between the two countries....
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Three départements in the south of France were placed on red alert on Monday, September 21st, due to a “very high risk of forest fires”, as hot and dry weather continued across southern France....
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The meeting is scheduled for 5:35 pm (11:35 pm Paris time), according to the US president's schedule published on Sunday evening.
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French President Emmanuel Macron and Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney announced closer ties Sunday, speaking from France's tiny territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, just off Canada's Atlantic coast....
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France is facing mounting pressure to rein in its public finances as it prepares a €54 billion package of spending cuts for next year.
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The shortage of housing for rent is so severe that even white-collar professionals are struggling to find apartments. Real estate professionals blame higher interest rates, energy efficiency requirements and the end of a tax incentive scheme for landlords....
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The Musée du Luxembourg has brought together around 200 works – drawings, lithographs, photographs and films – that shed light on how the New York-based artist worked....
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Thousands of people marched in Paris and other French cities on Sunday against a proposed law on the legitimate use of force that critics say would be a "licence to kill" for police and gendarmes....
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Hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon has introduced the public debt issue into the presidential election campaign by proposing to cancel part of it. The proposal is legally fragile and does not address France's persistent budget deficit, writes Le Monde columnist Stéphane Lauer...
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For his final show as a rider, the artist, also at the helm of an equestrian academy he founded in the Château de Versailles's royal stables, opened the doors of his own venue in the Paris suburbs....
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Macron welcomed Canadian PM Mark Carney to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon for talks aimed at deepening economic and security ties, as Canada seeks closer relations with France and Europe amid tensions with the US....
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During a joint news conference with Canadian leader Mark Carney on the French Atlantic territory, the French president said the two countries would work together for closer ties on fishing, security and energy....
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The Iranian judiciary accused the center of conducting 'illegal acts that violated diplomatic conventions,' amid strained relations between Tehran and Paris....
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Zohran Mamdani and Emmanuel Grégoire, the socialist mayors of New York and Paris, met in New York, using the opportunity to discuss shared interests in housing and environmental policy....
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Giorgia Meloni on Sunday announced plans to ban full veils in Italian schools and curb the enrollment of foreign students who do not speak Italian, echoing rules in other EU states. Here's a comparison of other EU countries' rules on this topic....
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday welcomed Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney to France's tiny North Atlantic territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, just off the Canadian coast....
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A profile of Jean-Luc Lagardère's son, heir to one of France's most powerful business empires, was the cover story for the first issue of Le Monde's magazine, in September 2011. Fifteen years later, the family business is now in the hands of another billionaire....
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In July, MPs in the Assemblée Nationale approved the bill, which says that any law enforcement official who uses force is assumed to have acted legally in using their weapon. It now faces a vote in the Sénat....
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As thousands flock to see the Bayeux Tapestry in London, where the 11th-century artwork is on loan for the first time, residents of its hometown in northern France say they’re feeling its loss....
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The probe is linked to his twin stewardship of the Champions League title holders and the beIN Media Group and involves a meeting on broadcasting rights with the French football league's representatives in July 2024....
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Pope Leo XIV is set to begin an official visit to France on September 25, with several thorny issues hanging over the trip, from clerical sexual abuse to the country's new assisted dying law....
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Emmanuel Macron arrived in the French North Atlantic territory on Saturday, where he will receive Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. The visit signals Canada's intent to distance itself from the US under Donald Trump....
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Macron said he saw the planned meeting with Mark Carney as "a very strong gesture of friendship" and pointed to the Canadian leader's blossoming relationship with Brussels....
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After a two-year hiatus, the festive protest returned Saturday afternoon in a cheerful atmosphere. Organizers and participants voiced criticism of the Ripost law adopted this summer that imposes harsher penalties on self-organized raves....
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Two Germans were arrested Saturday after they stuck two paintings on a wall of the hall that hosts the Mona Lisa in Paris's Louvre museum, police sources said....
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Are AI ‘pervert glasses’ actually legal in France? And what about Marine Le Pen’s ‘French preference’ plan? Plus, all you need to know about the flu vaccine, where the self-employed can look for business help … and the secret to successful French capitals....
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Pope Leo XIV is set to begin an official visit to France on 25 September, with several thorny issues hanging over the trip, from clerical sexual abuse to the country's new assisted dying law....
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They name their children Dior or Al Capone and love designer clothes and luxury cars. To maintain their lavish lifestyle, the men of the Hamidovic clan – a Romani family of Bosnian origin – have maintained a reign of fear over an army of young female pickpockets on Paris public t...
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This 32-year-old from Montpellier, who grew up in a radicalized family and faces a possible life sentence, told the Paris special criminal court that he's discovered 'a new vision of life' since his imprisonment in France....
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It was France's most severe heatwave on record: almost 8,000 excess deaths, some 120,000 hectares of scorched land, livestock and crops lost, birds falling silent in blackened forests. And for Juliette Decq, a climate consultant and mother of two, it was also the summer her home ...
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The French president will visit Saint Pierre and Miquelon for the first time during his presidency. Mark Carney, who this week welcomed a proposal for closer ties with the EU, will be the first Canadian prime minister to visit....
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France's debt mountain is growing and will this year be at its highest level since 1995 because of a soaring deficit, the country's finance ministry said Saturday....
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Ever since he first took office, Emmanuel Macron has placed great importance on his relationships with popes. His repeated invitations, breaches of protocol and displays of 'familiarity' have at times been seen as 'attempts to instrumentalize' the relationship....
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France has called on Moscow to "reverse" its decision to take control of assets belonging to European companies still operating in Russia, including Swiss food giant Nestle and three French groups. The Kremlin defends the takeover as a justified measure against firms representing...
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From what Marine Le Pen's policy of 'French preference' really means for foreigners in France, and whether it would even be legal, to Céline Dion fever and a few astonishing French cinema facts, here's a look at the latest news and talking points from France....
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French President Emmanuel Macron is travelling to Saint Pierre and Miquelon this weekend, an archipelago the Élysée describes as "central to today's France."...
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Calls to revive France's Yellow Vest protest movement, which began in November 2018, have recently appeared on social media.
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An exhibition invites visitors to discover a genre of painting that developed on the Korean Peninsula between the 18th and 20th centuries: representations of books and objects painted on folding screens....
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The French leader brought together presidential candidates and party leaders at the Elysée Palace on Friday for a confidential briefing on the evolving threat, as suspicious attacks and incidents continue to multiply across Europe....
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Moscow-born Anna Blinkova has previously represented Russia in the Billie Jean Cup.
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Daniel Benoin relocates Alfred Jarry's irreverent farce to the United States in a deliberately parodic production at the Théâtre de Paris that is rescued by André Marcon’s performance....
