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‘The far right drummed up a militia’: French extremists seize on teen’s murder to stoke violence

It all started with the tragic death of a teenage boy attending a village dance in southern France. Although the circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear, members of France’s ultra-right immediately blamed it on “anti-French” sentiment, descending on the region en masse to avenge his death.

France 24

Employees can be banned from wearing headscarves, top EU court rules

Lawyers for the woman argued the ban infringed her right to religious freedoms

The Independent UK

Voices: ‘Napoleon’ is more progressive than you think

Despite some flamboyant inaccuracies, Ridley Scott’s biopic starring Joaquin Phoenix is a truthful exploration of how France ended up crowning an emperor just years after beheading a king, writes Clémence Michallon

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France to ban smoking on all beaches in effort to create ‘tobacco-free generation’

Public parks, forests and areas near schools will also become smoke-free as part of nationwide move

The Guardian - UK

France Arrests Guru, 40 Others In Raids On Yoga Sect

French authorities on Tuesday arrested 41 people in raids against a controversial yoga sect, including its leader, the guru Gregorian Bivolaru, a source close to the case told AFP. The sect is accused of numerous abuses under Bivolaru, who has been repeatedly in the crosshairs of judicial authorities in Romania,…

International Business Times

Crackdown on French far right urged after boy’s killing sparks protests

Minister warns of risk from militias after death of 16-year-old blamed on immigrants and minorities

The Guardian - UK

A physicist is trying to sell Europe on a new generation of nuclear energy

Nuclear firm Newcleo CEO Stefano Buono is making inroads in Italy and France.

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Visiting the resting place for African WWII soldiers, France's unsung heroes

In 1940, during World War II, a group of tirailleurs – soldiers from what were then French colonies – fought the invading German army. In France's Rhône region, just outside of Lyon, these brave men faced the enemy. Many were taken prisoner and ruthlessly executed. A military cemetery has been…

France 24

Wolf spider 'lays eggs in British man's toe' during cruise holiday in France

Colin Blake was celebrating his 35th wedding anniversary when he was reportedly bitten

Evening Standard

France to ban smoking on beaches and close to schools

The French government said on Tuesday it would ban smoking on all the country's beaches, in public parks and forests and near schools, while the price of cigarettes will rise to unprecedented levels.

Radio France Internationale

France: 125 Million Euros Towards Development Of Cycling Infrastructure

France hopes to accelerate the adoption of cycling in the region by calling for infrastructure projects with funding of 125 million euros.

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Invisible disabilities in France: A silent struggle

More than a fifth of the French population is disabled. But for 80 percent of them, it doesn't show. Whether to disclose it or not is a delicate choice, given that disability is the leading cause of discrimination in France. Our team went to meet teenager Marc, who has a…

France 24

France moves to ban ultra-right groups in wake of violent protests

France is to dissolve three right-wing extremist groups following violent demonstrations at the weekend connected to the killing of a teenage boy.

Radio France Internationale

France to ban smoking on beaches as it seeks to avoid 75,000 tobacco-related deaths per year

France's government plans to ban smoking on all beaches, in public parks, forests and some other public areas

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The Guardian - UK

Arundell’s French adventure puts pressure on Borthwick and RFU

With every eye-catching Racing 92 appearance, the full-back’s England future will come under more scrutiny

Radio France Internationale

European crackdown reveals widespread child pornography network

In a crackdown spearheaded by France, 31 men implicated in a child pornography network that was primarily operated via the encrypted messaging service Signal have been arrested across Europe.

International Business Times

Busan, Riyadh Or Rome? 2030 World Expo Host To Be Revealed

Organisers will on Tuesday announce the host of the 2030 World Expo, with Rome in Italy, the Saudi capital Riyadh and South Korea's Busan contending to welcome the showpiece event held every five years.

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Lacaton & Vassal are the Soane Medal 2023 winners

The Soane Medal 2023 has been awarded to French architecture practice Lacaton & Vassal

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Bouygues Telecom Deploys Broadpeak's nanoCDN

The deployment make Bouygues the first operator in France to stream video in multicast ABR with nanoCDN

Radio France Internationale

France presents strategy to protect biodiversity without 'brutality'

The collapse of biodiversity is an "existential threat" for the world, warned French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne when presenting France’s latest biodiversity strategy, which follows two other plans whose goals have yet to be attained. She promised "radical" results without "brutal" measures.

France 24

Ireland's Paul Lynch on winning 2023 Booker Prize with novel 'Prophet Song'

Irish writer Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winning fifth novel is a timely and urgent book described as powerful, claustrophobic and horribly real, capturing the social and political anxieties of our time. The book is set in a dystopian Dublin in the grips of totalitarianism. Some of the themes of "Prophet Song"…

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Chanel heir with a $48 billion fortune is the richest person in Switzerland thanks to a post-pandemic luxury goods boom

Gérard Wertheimer has taken the top spot from the Kamprad family—the billionaire founders of Swedish furniture giant Ikea—for the first time in 21 years.

International Business Times

Six Pupils Go On Trial Over 2020 Murder Of French Schoolteacher

Six teenagers go on trial in Paris on Monday for their role in the 2020 beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, the first of two trials in a case that horrified France.

The Conversation

Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand all felt 'different' in the world – and changed the way we think

The “actual impulse of astonishment” that sparks all philosophising is “honest bafflement that other people live as they do,” writes Wolfram Eilenberger in his new book, The Visionaries.

The Canberra Times

French-Australian family is offering Canberrans an 'escape to la maison'

It's a French farmhouse for sale for less than a Queanbeyan one-bedder.

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