Faced with the new, more contagious variants of the coronavirus, France’s High Council of Public Health (HCSP) has implicitly advised against certain fabric masks that don’t properly filter the virus that causes Covid-19. However, any moves against using fabric masks will be difficult to implement. The HCSP said
France will tighten its laws on incest, President Emmanuel Macron said in a series of tweets on Saturday, after publication of a book accusing a top French political commentator of abusing his stepson sparked outrage across the country. Macron said on his Twitter account that
Didier Deschamps has tipped Zinedine Zidane to “go full circle” by succeeding him as head coach of the France national team. Zidane is in his second spell as Real Madrid boss and finds himself under intense pressure following Wednesday’s defeat to third-tier side Alcoyano in
Orange, France’s leading telecoms operator, said late on Friday that it agreed to sell part of its fixed fibre assets in the country to a consortium of three investors for about 1.3 billion euros ($1.58 billion). It is the first time that the Paris-based company,
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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
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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
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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”