!['Sensory heritage': France passes law protecting sounds and smells of countryside [WION]](https://francelatestnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/179684-mbscrr9vjz0hpinglqxy-scaled-1-600x400.jpg)
France has passed a law protecting the countryside’s “sensory heritage” from attempts to stifle the everyday aspects of rural life from newcomers looking for peace and quiet. No longer will lily-livered weekending urbanites be able to complain about the smell of pigs or slurry-spreading, or
![France says Iran is building nuclear weapons capacity, urgent to revive 2015 deal [Reuters]](https://francelatestnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/telechargement-1-600x400.jpg)
Iran is in the process of building up its nuclear weapons capacity and it is urgent that Tehran and Washington return to a 2015 nuclear agreement, France’s foreign minister was quoted as saying in an interview published on Saturday. Iran has been accelerating its breaches
![France wants suspension of 'poisonous' U.S.-Europe trade spat [Reuters]](https://francelatestnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/telechargement-600x400.jpg)
The European Union and the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden should suspend a trade dispute to give themselves time to find common ground, France’s foreign minister said in remarks published on Sunday. “The issue that’s poisoning everyone is that of the price escalation
French archaeologists have hailed the “exceptional” discovery of the 2,000-year-old remains of a child buried with animal offerings and what appears to have been a pet dog. The child, believed to have been around a year old, was interred at the beginning of the first
The French government shot down an offer from Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. to acquire hypermarket chain Carrefour SA, according to people familiar with the matter, saying the move threatened jobs and France’s food security amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Couche-Tard’s offer to buy Carrefour for 16.1 billion euros,
The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is facing a preliminary investigation for influence peddling in connection with a €3m (£2.7) contract he signed with a Russian insurance company. The rightwing politician reportedly received a first payment of €500,000 last year after being hired as a “special adviser”
Two French soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in northeastern Mali on Saturday, just days after three others died in similar fashion, the French presidency announced. President Emmanuel Macron “learnt with great sadness” of the deaths of Sergeant Yvonne Huynh
![The Great British Booze Cruise to France Ends with Brexit, Virus [Bloomberg]](https://francelatestnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1x-1-600x400.jpg)
For the better part of two decades, the French port city of Calais has enjoyed a steady stream of Brits making a quick stopover with one mission in mind: to stock up on wine and other alcohol at a steep discount and haul the goods