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PSG’s Dembele beats Barca’s Yamal to Ballon d’Or, as Bonmati nets hat-trick

Ousmane Dembele helped Paris Saint-Germain to a quadruple last season, including their first Champions League.

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Dior picks Northern Irish designer to head up men's and women's collections

French fashion house Dior named Northern Irish designer Jonathan Anderson on Monday as the first-ever creative director for both its women's and men's collections.

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France’s new PM announces renegotiation of contested pension reforms

Francois Bayrou wants to hold more talks in order to prevent another collapse of government amid budget debates.

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Macron makes rare appearance with ex-PM and Élysée hopeful Edouard Philippe

Emmanuel Macron and his former prime minister Edouard Philippe, who hopes to succeed the French president after the 2027 election, made a rare joint public appearance on Thursday to remember eighty years since the liberation of a French port from Nazi occupation.

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Mass protests erupt in France after Macron picks Barnier as PM

Thousands take to streets across France to protest President Macron’s decision to appoint centre-right Barnier as PM.

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Paris Olympics 2024: Event facts – surfing, breaking, mascots, Eiffel Tower

Paris 2024 begins on July 26. Al Jazeera takes a look at some interesting facts surrounding the Olympics.

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French National Assembly election: What’s at stake and what to expect?

President Macron appears poised for major losses in Sunday’s snap poll, which could see the rise of the far right.

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Nearly a million people on Paris’s Champs-Elysées to ring in 2024

More than 800,000 people amassed on Paris’ most famous avenue Sunday night to celebrate the new year and admire a giant fireworks display. Crowd control was a test run for the security protocol to be implemented for the Olympics games, which Paris hosts this year.

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Tour de France: Jai Hindley wins stage 5 as Vingegaard drops Pogacar in Pyrenees

Australian moves into yellow jersey after day-long attack

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Protesters storm Paris Euronext building in anger over pension law

A group of protesters briefly invaded offices of stockmarket operator Euronext in Paris' La Defense business district on Thursday, saying big companies must pay up to finance pensions, as part of wider protests against a rise in the retirement age.

Reuters

French Senate approves Macron’s pension plan amid new protests

Unions call for an additional day of strikes and protests as Senate vote brings pension plan closer to becoming law.

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French union bosses take retirement-age protests to countryside as vote looms

French union bosses took their demonstration against a planned pension reform to a small southern town on Thursday, as strikes showed signs of faltering ahead of a key parliamentary vote on raising the retirement age by two years to 64.

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Turkey steps up collapsed buildings investigation, orders 113 arrested

Turkey vowed on Sunday to investigate thoroughly anyone suspected of responsibility for the collapse of buildings in the country's devastating earthquakes nearly one week ago and has already ordered the detention of 113 suspects.

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In black body bags, Syrians in Turkey make final journey home

They arrived at the border in taxis, run-down vans and in piles atop flatbed trucks: black body bags carrying Syrian refugees killed by the earthquake in Turkey, now being taken to final resting places in their war-ravaged homeland.

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Fire at Turkey's Iskenderun Port extinguished -defence ministry

A fire that engulfed hundreds of shipping containers at Turkey's Iskenderun Port after massive earthquakes in the region have been extinguished, the defence ministry said on Tuesday, but it was not clear when operations would resume at the port.

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Hope for jobs drives recruitment by militant groups in Africa - report

Hope of employment more than religious belief is driving people to join fast-growing extremist groups in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report by the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) based on interviews with hundreds of former fighters.

Reuters

French and German leaders gloss over divisions at summit

The leaders of France and Germany sought at a summit on Sunday to pave over divisions that have dogged Europe's closest bilateral relation since the war in Ukraine broke out, leaving many of their most vexed issues to be worked out later.

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Wine-loving France gets a taste for the alcohol-free

When a pandemic lockdown kept the French indoors in 2020, Augustin Laborde decided to give up wine but struggled in Paris to find a non-alcoholic alternative.

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France struggles with refinery strikes, but not planning petrol rationing

More than a fifth of France's service stations were grappling with supply problems on Saturday, the energy ministry said, as strikes at refineries run by oil majors TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil continued to strain drivers' nerves.

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The beluga whale that was in River Seine has died - local authority

The beluga whale which was lifted out of the River Seine earlier on Wednesday has died, despite the mission to save it, according to local authorities.

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Beluga whale that strayed into River Seine euthanised during rescue

An ailing beluga whale that strayed into the River Seine died on Wednesday during an attempt to return it to the sea off northern France, authorities said.

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Beluga whale in France's River Seine to be moved to saltwater lock

A beluga whale which strayed into the River Seine, far from its usual habitat of arctic or subarctic waters, will be moved to a saltwater river basin close to the sea on Tuesday, marine conservation group Sea Shepherd France said.

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France’s Macron talks energy with Saudi Crown Prince MBS in Paris

MBS’s visit to France has been controversial, with President Macron criticised by some in his country.

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Macron's inflation-relief bill faces narrow path to compromise in parliament

President Emmanuel Macron's French government, hunting for votes to enact a cost-of-living relief bill after losing its majority in parliament, is open to amendments backed by conservative opponents that would incentivise work, a government source said.

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Macron, with eye on parliamentary vote, visits left-leaning Paris suburb

French President Emmanuel Macron paid a surprise visit to a Socialist-held working-class suburb of Paris on Wednesday on his first official outing since his re-election, in an effort to woo left-wing voters ahead of June's parliamentary vote.

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