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Two teenagers probed for murder after girl, 14, drowned near Paris

Two French teenagers are being investigated for murder after a 14-year-old schoolgirl was found drowned in the River Seine near Paris.

11/03/2021

France

Schoolgirl's lies spark anger in case of murdered teacher Samuel Paty

The girl, who originally told her father that Paty had asked Muslim students to leave the classroom during his lessons, admitted she lied about being present.

09/03/2021

France

French billionaire MP Olivier Dassault dies in helicopter crash

"His brutal death is a great loss," said French President Emmanuel Macron.

07/03/2021

France

French government to 'go all out' on vaccination amid COVID variants

France's prime minister said the government would ramp up vaccination amid concerns over the rapid spread of more transmissible COVID variants in the country.

06/03/2021

France

Plane painted green in protest over France's climate crisis response

Several of the protesters stood on the plane's wings, carrying banners reading: "Is there a pilot to save the climate?"

05/03/2021

France

French concern as PM reveals only 1/3 of health workers are vaccinated

Only around 30% of French health workers have received a coronavirus vaccine so far. "This is not normal," the government told reporters on Thursday.

04/03/2021

France

France dissolves far-right group Generation Identity

The French government has dissolved the far-right group Generation Identity, interior minister Gérald Darmanin announced.

03/03/2021

France

Sahara dust and traffic lead to air pollution alerts in France

Parts of France are experiencing high levels of air pollution amid a storm bringing dust from the Sahara Desert over to the country.

03/03/2021

France

NGOs demand France investigates Syrian regime's chemical attacks

The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) and Syrian Archive are seeking a French criminal investigation into the August 2013 chemical weapons attacks on Douma and Eastern Ghouta.

02/03/2021

France

France widens AstraZeneca jab use, backs one dose for COVID patients

Health Minister Olivier Véran told France 2 on Monday evening that the AstraZeneca jab has now been approved for people aged 65-74 with "co-morbidities".

02/03/2021

France

Irony as Sahara dust returns radiation of French nuclear tests in '60s

Dust from the Sahara is being blown over to France, bringing with it radiation left over from French nuclear weapons tests from the 1960s.

01/03/2021

France

Conservative French MPs support ex-President Sarkozy after conviction

A number of MPs from Sarkozy's Les Republicains party have expressed their "unwavering support" for the former president on social media.

01/03/2021

France

France's ex-president, Nicolas Sarkozy, given jail term for corruption

He is the first former French leader to be handed out a prison sentence that includes time with no remission.

01/03/2021

Moments

View history's most unusable objects in this virtual exhibition

Explore impossible and improbable designs including a wavy ping pong table and Donald Trump's version of Monopoly.

01/03/2021

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COVID: Nice beaches deserted during city's first weekend lockdown

The new weekend measures will be in force for at least two weeks.

27/02/2021

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Cellist Camille Thomas fills empty Louvre with classical music

Empty of its usual visitors, the Louvre's gallery spaces were filled with the strains of Bach in a performance by cellist Camille Thomas who went viral in France's first lockdown.

27/02/2021

France

France-based Uighur group sues Nike for 'complicity in forced labour'

The sports brand is accused of sub-contracting Chinese factories using forced Uighur labour

26/02/2021

Earth News

French village says 'non' to Elon Musk's space-age internet

Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron's 350 residents are not too thrilled to have been picked as a ground station for Musk's Starlink project.

26/02/2021

France

Paris City Hall rows back on 3-week lockdown proposal amid criticism

"Let's not play with French people's nerves," said government spokesman Gabriel Attal after the Paris City Hall announced it would propose a three-week lockdown in the French capital.

25/02/2021

France

‘My only chance is with Elon Musk’: Quadruple amputee dreams of space

Philippe Croizon, a quadruple amputee that has since become an accomplished athlete, dreams to become the first handicapped person in outer space.

25/02/2021

France

Illegal workers from Moldova ‘smuggled into France on fake passports’

"The criminal group, organised by a Romanian national living in France, smuggled at least 40 Moldovan nationals to exploit them in the construction business in France," Europol said.

25/02/2021

France

France v Scotland Six Nations match cancelled due to COVID outbreak

Around 10 of France’s 102 territorial areas known as departments are in a "very worrying situation" in terms of COVID-19 infections, government spokesman Gabriel Attal has said.

25/02/2021

France

Unseen Van Gogh goes on display before Sotheby's auction in March

The work depicts a rarely seen view of Paris in the nineteenth century. 'Scène de rue à Montmartre' shows how the busy suburb used to be a rural, tranquil place.

25/02/2021

France

French actor Gérard Depardieu denies rape charges

The case relaunched in December centres on an actress in her twenties who has accused the star of sexually assaulting her twice in August 2018.

23/02/2021

France

Human After All: Electro duo Daft Punk call it quits after 28 years

The world’s most famous electronic music duo, Daft Punk, have announced they are splitting up.

22/02/2021

France

France's Sanofi to produce millions of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 jabs

Sanofi is to produce as many as 12 million doses a month of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine once approved. It has also agreed to manufacture 125 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab.

22/02/2021