Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from France

How businesses can best help employees disconnect from work

A number of countries have recently introduced legislation giving employees the legal right to disconnect electronically from work. Originating in France, right-to-disconnect initiatives mandate that organizations cannot expect employees to be available outside of their established working hours.

The Conversation

Getting snappy: concerns over blue crab invasion in the Mediterranean

This species of crab, originally from the west coast of the United States, has found a new home in the lagoons around the French Mediterranean coast, destabilising not only the local ecosystem as well as wreaking havoc on the fishing industry.

Radio France Internationale

French soldier dies in attack on anti-insurgent base in Mali

France says one of its soldiers has been killed in a mortar attack on a base in Mali

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Novak Djokovic gets huge French Open boost as France introduce 'new vaccine passport rule'

World number one Novak Djokovic will be allowed to play in the 2022 French Open after the country brought in new vaccine passport rules.

Daily Mirror

French soldier killed in attack on military base in northern Mali

A French soldier has been killed in a mortar attack on a military camp in Gao, northern Mali, the Elysée Palace announced Sunday. Brigadier Alexandre Martin had been serving in France’s Barkhane operation in the restive Sahel region.

Radio France Internationale

IHU: How dangerous is the new Covid variant and where has it spread?

Researchers referring to B.1.640.2 as ‘new variant of probably Cameroonian origin’

The Independent UK

Australian Open: Nadal decimates Mannarino to storm into quarter-finals

Sixth-seed Rafael Nadal decimated Adrian Mannarino of France 7-6 (16-14), 6-2, 6-2 in a match that lasted for two hours and 40 minutes to enter the quarter-finals of men's singles here at the Rod Laver Arena on Sunday.

Dynamite News

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

France favourites and England rebuilding in unusually unpredictable Six Nations

With Ireland strong, Scotland inconsistent and Wales hit by injuries, it feels as if the top five teams can all beat each other

The Guardian - UK

A splash of color

Staffers work on hina dolls ahead of the Girl's Festival on March 3, at the workshop of Matsuyoshi Ningyou Co. in Higashi-Osaka, Osaka Prefecture. In addition to regular hina dolls, Matsuyoshi Ningyou is making dolls dressed in a striped costume for the Year of the Tiger, in costumes with colorful…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Scientists scrutinise characteristics of new Omicron sub-variant BA.2

Studies are underway to find out the precise characteristics of the latest Covid-19 variant ‘BA.2’. It already accounts for the majority of most recent cases in a number of countries, including India, Denmark and Sweden. But, for French Health Minister Olivier Véran, this sub-variant’s arrival in France is not "a…

France 24

Political advisers to hold four-way talks on Ukraine in Paris

Political advisers from Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany will hold "Normandy format" talks on eastern Ukraine in Paris on Jan. 25, a source in Russian President Vladimir Putin's administration said on Saturday.

Reuters

Douala academy nurtures Cameroon’s next generation of Indomitable Lions

The Brasseries Football School in Cameroon has nurtured some of Africa’s greatest players since it began operating in 1989. The distinguished academy has sent footballers to some of the world's top clubs, as well as to Cameroon’s national team, the Indomitable Lions. FRANCE 24 visited their training ground in Douala.

France 24

Japan and Poland log record cases; Germany seven-day rate at new high – as it happened

Concerns about new Omicron offshoot in England; France to bring in strict restrictions for unvaccinated people

The Guardian - UK

IHU: How dangerous is the new Covid variant and where has it spread?

Researchers referring to B.1.640.2 as ‘new variant of probably Cameroonian origin’

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Shielders say lifting of England’s Plan B restrictions ‘complete nightmare’

Among the 3.7 million clinically extremely vulnerable people in England, the removal of Covid restrictions has raised concerns

Bristol Post

How to watch Scarlets v Bristol Bears live on TV for free, team news and odds

Bristol Bears face Scarlets in the fourth pool stage game of the 2021/22 Heineken Champions Cup

Reuters

Thich Nhat Hanh, poetic peace activist and master of mindfulness, dies at 95

(This Jan. 22 story corrects to Princeton Theological Seminary from Princeton University in 12th paragraph)

France 24

'Gentle' France lags behind eager EU neighbours in race to vaccinate kids as Omicron rages

As France's bid to vaccinate 5- to 11-year-olds against Covid-19 hits the one-month mark, progress remains ploddingly slow, light years behind many EU neighbours. As the Omicron wave rages through France with average confirmed cases exceeding 300,000 a day, Prime Minister Jean Castex on Thursday euphemised that the jab campaign…

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Benzinga

Curtiss-Wright To Acquire Safran Aerosystems Arresting Company For $240M

Curtiss-Wright Corp (NYSE:CW) has agreed to acquire the assets that comprise the Safran Aerosystems Arresting Company (SAA) for $240 million in cash. SAA is a designer and manufacturer of aircraft emergency arresting systems with over 5,000 systems worldwide and currently sells to more than 70 countries. It generated sales of ~$70 million in…

France 24

Losing faith in democracy: France's abstention problem

This week, we're exploring a key question ahead of the upcoming presidential elections in France: "to vote or not to vote?" As the list of candidates gets longer, the race is on to drum up support. But voter apathy is still a major concern and increasing numbers of would-be voters…

France 24

EU Commissioner for migration & asylum urges 'clarity' from UK over Channel crossings

2022 is not yet one month old, but already around a thousand people have made "irregular" crossings from France to the United Kingdom – putting a spotlight back onto the issue of migration between the European Union and its former member state. Margaritis Schinas is European Commission Vice-President, and the…

The Independent UK

Canada, US and allies talk aid for Haiti at virtual meeting

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says immediate action is needed to fix the security situation in Haiti and he says additional aid is a central topic of a virtual conference that includes officials from Canada, the United States and France

France 24

France's Macron 'will implement' EU funding conditionality over rule of law degradations

In a week when France has been at the forefront of EU news thanks to heated exchanges between President Macron and Members of the European Parliament, we speak to leading French MEP from the president's political group, Fabienne Keller. The former Strasbourg mayor tells FRANCE 24 Emmanuel Macron is "determined"…

Radio France Internationale

French council allows vaccine pass, but not for political rallies

France's Constitutional Council has approved with conditions the government's controversial vaccine pass. From 24 January, people over 16 must show a certificate of vaccination to enter public places like restaurants, cinemas or inter-city trains.

France 24

Victims of Storm Alex in southeastern France still struggling to recover

For various experts, Storm Alex, which ravaged south-eastern France in October 2020, was a "weather bomb". In the area north of the city of Nice, torrential rain burst the banks of rivers. Entire houses were swept away in the current, sometimes with their owners inside. The 2,000 inhabitants of the…

1 … 1157 1158 1159 1160

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Office for National Statistics

Constitutional Council

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.