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'The Tour de France throws a match into the box of fireworks and lets the whole lot go off at once' – Dr Hutch on the madness of cycling's biggest race

The Doc hails the dizzying insanity of sport's most dazzling spectacle

Cycling Weekly

FIFA Best Awards: What are they? Who is nominated? How are winners decided?

Top awards to be handed out tonight

Evening Standard

How Does The Best FIFA Football Awards Voting Work? Nominees, Format Explained

Fans from across the globe had the chance to vote for the Best FIFA Football Awards.

Sports Illustrated

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France urges delay as EU pushes ahead with Mercosur trade deal

France has called on the European Union to pause its plans to sign a long-awaited free-trade agreement with the South American Mercosur bloc, setting the stage for a tense week in Brussels as EU leaders seek to push the landmark deal over the line.

Radio France Internationale

European Commission turns up pressure on France over Mercosur deal

France wants to delay member states’ vote on the agreement amid mounting farmer anger. But the EU executive says a shifting global geoeconomic landscape makes the deal urgent.

Euronews

'We are all devastated': French victim of Bondi Beach attack described as 'bursting with talent'

Dan Elkayam, a 27-year-old French engineer, was among 15 people killed in the antisemitic attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday. His former engineering school in Paris described him as talented and kind, while France opened a terrorism investigation and increased security at Jewish sites.

Euronews

'It was a snowball effect' – Oscar Onley's rapid transformation into an in-demand Tour de France contender

'Now I feel like I have a leg to stand on and I can put myself forward and say that I want to podium at a Grand Tour and ultimately win one in the coming years'

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Farmers and politics threaten to put EU's free-trade deal with South America on ice

France is creating a last-minute hurdle for a major trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur bloc

The Independent UK

Pandas, pingpong and ancient canals: President Xi’s hosting style says a lot about Chinese diplomacy

When French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to China in early December for his fourth state visit, the itinerary began with the expected formalities. There was a red carpet reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing and high-level talks with President Xi Jinping on trade, technology and Ukraine.

The Conversation

How many migrants crossed the Channel yesterday? Total for 2025 passes 40k as small boat crossings resume

There is understood to be a backlog of migrants in France waiting to make the perilous journey after 28 days without Channel crossings

Evening Standard

Mother of jailed French journalist asks Algerian president for pardon

The mother of jailed French journalist Christophe Gleizes wrote a letter to Algeria's president requesting he pardon her son from his seven-year sentence on terror-related charges.

Radio France Internationale

Pont Neuf rewrapped: how Paris's oldest bridge became new again

Artist JR will take over Pont Neuf, the French capital’s oldest surviving bridge, for a vast installation next summer, the City of Paris has announced. The project is inspired by another intervention 40 years earlier, which shifted the boundaries of what artists could do with France’s monuments.

Radio France Internationale

France’s Flamanville nuclear reactor reaches full power for first time

The Flamanville EPR reactor in north-western France has reached full nuclear power for the first time, state utility EDF announced on Sunday, describing it as “a major milestone” for the long-delayed and over-budget project.

Radio France Internationale

'I hope I don't stop writing this book' - Analysing Tadej Pogačar's continued drive to tear up conventional script with impressively ambitious 2026 calendar

Combination of cobbled Classics and Tour de France targets maintains Slovenian in class of his own

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French minister heads to southwest as farmers block roads over cattle disease

French Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard said on Sunday she will travel to the south-west of France on Monday to attend the start of the vaccination campaign for cattle herds, as angry farmers block key roads in protest at the government’s handling of lumpy skin disease.

Radio France Internationale

First urban cable car unveiled in Paris region

Gondolas floated above a cityscape in the southeastern suburbs of Paris on Saturday as officials unveiled the first urban cable car in the French capital's region.

Radio France Internationale

Legacy of conscription shapes France's new version of military service

France has not had a mandatory military service for nearly three decades. Today, as Russia multiplies its threats on the edge of Europe, the country is considering how to boost its military capacity – and that includes growing the armed forces. As a new, voluntary military service aims to recruit…

Euronews

The Catholic Church beatified nearly 200 martyrs in major ceremonies in Spain and France

Three different groups of martyrs are beatified in this way.

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French President Emmanuel Macron gives a second public shout-out to Clair Obscur after its Game Awards sweep: 'A source of great pride for Montpellier and for France'

The J'RPG is taking another victory lap in the public eye after its historic night.

Radio France Internationale

How a scandal and a socialist MP broke the French state's ties to the church

On 9 December 1905, France abolished Catholicism as the state religion after MPs voted to separate church and state, a move that redefined the relationship between the republic and religious worship and founded the principle of secularism seen in modern France.

Radio France Internationale

Farmers clash with police in southwest France over mass cattle culls and trade fears

Farmers in southwest France blocked major roads overnight from Friday to Saturday, setting fire to hay bales and clashing with police in protest at government‑ordered cattle culls linked to an outbreak of lumpy skin disease.

LiveScience

16th-century gallows and dozens of skeletons discovered in France

Archaeologists have identified a 16th-century gallows structure and nearly a dozen mass burial pits in Grenoble, France.

Euronews

France struggles to contain cattle lumpy skin disease as farmers' protests spread

Strict culling rules ignite nationwide anger as cases of the deadly outbreak of lumpy skin disease, which cannot be passed on to humans, surge in the southwest of the country

The Guardian - UK

As NHS braces for record flu cases, is the strain active in continental Europe too?

Mutations thought to be spreading flu faster and earlier, with vaccines less effective than hoped

We Got This Covered

In 2018, France’s most notorious gangster concocted a genius plan to escape prison, all he’d need was was guns, smoke bombs, and a helicopter

Rédoine Faïd somehow had the whole of France cheering him on with his bold escape strategy.

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