Pope Leo XIV visits France: Everything you need to know
The four-day visit, both a religious and diplomatic event, is highly anticipated by French Catholics.
The four-day visit, both a religious and diplomatic event, is highly anticipated by French Catholics.
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The Tour Montparnasse, the highest skyscraper in inner city Paris – and notorious as its ugliest building – faces a future without a long-anticipated renovation after its co-owners voted against the project....
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In an interview broadcast on TF1 and France 2 on Thursday evening, the president announced that he would 'do everything to reopen the Strait of Hormuz' and did not rule out lowering taxes if fuel prices continued to soar....
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President Emmanuel Macron greeted the 71-year-old pope on the tarmac, as he marked the first official trip by a head of the Vatican since Pope Benedict XVI in September 2008....
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Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron will welcome Pope Leo XIV at the airport on Friday as the 71-year-old pontiff lands in France, the first state visit by a head of the Catholic Church in 18 years. Artificial intelligence and the faith of young people are expected to dominate his trip....
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From conversational robots to an AI-powered voice, hospitals and care homes in France are testing new technologies to support people living with Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative conditions....
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Police clear bicycles and cordon off streets in Paris ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit and his planned walk through the capital.
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European governments are cutting fuel taxes, offering subsidies and adjusting energy rules to ease the impact of record petrol and diesel prices. France, Germany and Spain are among those expanding support, while the EU faces the added risk of possible US restrictions on diesel e...
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From a fancy lunch at the Ritz's Hemingway Bar to an American literary festival outside Paris - this week's La Belle Vie looks at how young people seem to be falling in love with reading again....
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France will send troops and defence systems to Saudi Arabia to help protect the Red Sea port city of Yanbu, which is key for energy transport, French President Emmanuel Macron has said in a TV interview. He also denied a report by Spanish newspaper El Mundo that the US Central In...
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Trump and Xi Jinping's high-stakes Washington summit was closely watched in Europe, as Pope Leo XIV arrives in France for the first time. Also on the show: an interview with Danish minister Martin Lidegaard on the US-Denmark deal on Greenland and an update on the Ceuta migration ...
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Yanbu serves as the kingdom's primary crude export terminal on the Red Sea and is connected to its oil-producing regions near the Gulf coast by the East-West pipeline, also known as Petroline....
