France

Ocean

When it comes to cleaning up the Oceans, technology may be good but education is even better

In partnership with the European Commission

EU sponsors clean-up operations, but a change in mentalities is the key to success

15/11/2019

Ocean

Are ocean cleanup campaigns effective?

In partnership with the European Commission

Images of rubbish piling up in the ocean can be a depressing sight. But the good news is that there are signs that cleanup campaigns are having an impact.

15/11/2019

France

Thousands of French hospital workers protest years of cutbacks

"Exhausted caregivers = endangered patients", "Public hospitals in life-threatening emergency" were some of the protesters' mottos.

14/11/2019

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'French Spider-Man' Alain Robert scales Paris skyscraper

Urban climber Alain Robert, also known as the "French Spider-Man", scaled a skyscraper in Paris on Wednesday.

13/11/2019

France

'I understand that life must go on but...it doesn’t': Paris remembered

On the fourth anniversary of the November 13, 2015 terror attacks, French government officials will commemorate the victims of the deadliest day witnessed in the French capital since World War II.

13/11/2019

France

French student unions demand poverty relief after attempted suicide

There are calls for more financial aid for students in difficulty after a young man set himself alight in Lyon in a protest over precarity.

13/11/2019

France

Macron attacks ‘hypocrisy’ of backlash to his NATO criticism

The French president hit out at ‘priggishness and hypocrisy’ in the backlash to his criticism of international institutions including NATO.

12/11/2019

France

North Macedonia president meets Macron after French EU accession veto

Stevo Pendarovski and Emmanuel Macron meet in Paris, weeks after France blocked a start date for EU membership talks for North Macedonia and Albania.

12/11/2019

France

Four injured as unusually strong earthquake hits France

The quake was felt from Lyon to Montpellier

11/11/2019

France

Watch back: France marks 101st anniversary of WWI armistice signing

French President Emmanuel Macron marked the 101st anniversary of the end of World War I.

11/11/2019

France

Paris anti-Islamophobia march divides left while criticised by right

Over 13,500 people marched in Paris on Sunday against Islamophobia, in a controversial protest that created tensions on the left and attracted criticism from the French government and right-wing parties.

10/11/2019

France

French bishops back payments to sex abuse victims

French bishops back payments to sex abuse victims

09/11/2019

France

French student sets himself alight in 'despair' at financial crisis

The student was in a “highly precarious financial situation, denied financial aid and desperate," student union Solidaires Etudiant-e-s Lyon said.

09/11/2019

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Chocolatier celebrates Berlin Wall anniversary with tasty replica

French chocolate-maker Patrick Roger built a giant chocolate 'wall' in Paris to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall.

09/11/2019

My Europe Series

Pesticides: a threat to public health? France's toxic debate

France plans to introduce buffer zones between crops fields and residential areas, to comply with EU rules. The debate has become toxic in many parts of the country, where tensions run high between residents worried about their health, and farmers concerned about their future.

08/11/2019

Sci-Tech

Huawei's bid to accelerate Europe's digitalisation

In partnership with Huawei

Huawei’s European Innovation Day and Eco-Connect events in Paris gather European leaders from various sectors like technology, industry, energy and healthcare to find ways to speed up the continent’s digitalisation together.

08/11/2019

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'Curious' Christmas window displays unveiled at Printemps in Paris

The window displays, which this year are dubbed "A very curious Christmas", feature animals in zany scenes.

08/11/2019

France

Paris migrant camps cleared — again — in immigration crackdown

Buses took away more than 1,600 migrants who were camped in the Porte de la Chapelle and Seine-Saint-Denis area.

07/11/2019

France

#metoo hits French cinema as actress Adele Haenel accuses director

Haenel, now 30, claims Christophe Ruggia abused her when they worked together on her debut movie, The Devils, when she was 12 to 15.

07/11/2019

France

French firm Lafarge cleared of Syria war crimes complicity charge

The industrial giant is still accused of financing terror groups including IS as it tried to keep its Syrian plant open amid the conflict.

07/11/2019

Business

French volunteers find Airbus engine fragments from mid-air explosion

A team of French volunteers have found engine fragments that fell from an Airbus A220 during a mid-air engine explosion in July.

07/11/2019

France

Catherine Deneuve, 76, in Paris hospital after 'limited' stroke

French actress Catherine Deneuve has been hospitalised in Paris after suffering a "reversible" stroke, her family told AFP.

06/11/2019

France

French Resistance member Yvette Lundy dies at 103

Born in 1916 in a small village in the northeastern department of Marne, Lundy started from 1940 to supply fake papers to Jews, men fleeing the Nazi regime's compulsory labour service (STO) or escaped prisoners of war that one of her brothers — who died after being deported — was hiding on his farm.

04/11/2019

France

Nigerian migrant, 25, dies after starting fire in tent in Calais

Conditions for migrants in northern France remain dire three years since the demolition of the so-called Calais Jungle.

03/11/2019

France

FlixBus overturns between London and Paris, 33 injured

The firm said the accident happened on November 3.

03/11/2019

France

Airbnb bans house parties after California Halloween shooting

CEO Brian Chesky has announced that the tech firm is setting up a 'rapid response team' to deal with unauthorised parties.

02/11/2019