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France’s Labor Pains

Despite more than a month of paralyzing strikes, France’s unions are bleeding members, influence, and prestige.

Foreign Policy

France's sports minister says she is ready for law suit with ex-football supremo

France's sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra on Wednesday said she was prepared to go to court as the war of words intensified with Noël Le Graët, the former boss of the Fédération française de football (FFF).

Radio France Internationale

France steps up monitoring of diabetes drug used for weight loss

The French drug safety agency on Wednesday announced it was stepping up monitoring of Ozempic, a diabetes drug promoted by influencers on social networks who flaunt its weight-loss properties. As well as health concerns, the authorities say the increased demand could jeopardise access for legitimate diabetic patients.

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Just Fontaine, France's 1958 World Cup hero, dies aged 89

Tributes from around the world of football poured in on Wednesday for the former Reims and France international striker Just Fontaine, who has died at the age of 89.

Radio France Internationale

Germany: Skulls and bones, a sinister colonial heritage

It's a sinister heritage: tens of thousands of skulls and other human remains are stored in German museums and research institutes. Many were taken during the colonial era and researchers are now trying to source them in order to send them back to their countries of origin, mostly in Africa.…

France 24

Couple 'fed up of traffic' swap UK home for grand French château - saving £230,000

Husband and wife, Heidi and Anthony Muir, have saved £230,000 by swapping their semi-detached family home in Kent for a grand nine-bedroom château in France - where there's much less congestion

Daily Mirror

Just Fontaine, Who Scored 13 Goals at 1958 World Cup, Dies

Just Fontaine, the French football great who scored a record 13 goals at the 1958 World Cup, has died. He was 89. Fontaine's former club Reims announced his death on Wednesday. Fontaine took six games to achieve his feat at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, when he was a…

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Just Fontaine: Record World Cup goalscorer dies aged 89

The France striker scored a record 13 goals in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden

The Independent UK

Marcus Smith still has hope of facing France despite England omission, insists Harlequins head coach

Marcus Smith is back with Harlequins after being left out of Steve Borthwick’s training camp

Evening Standard

France holds largest-ever military drills amid bloody backdrop of Ukraine war

France is staging its biggest military exercises to date – an operation involving 12,000 troops including NATO allies. The first leg of the Orion 2023 war games started on 23 February and will last until 11 March. The drills come one year after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.

Radio France Internationale

France football great Just Fontaine dies, aged 89

The profilic striker is considered one of the best players in French football history

Evening Standard

Just Fontaine, who scored 13 goals at 1958 World Cup, dies

World Cup record holder Just Fontaine has died

The Independent UK

Former France great Just Fontaine dies at 89

NEW DELHI: Just Fontaine, the former France football great, died aged 89, his family said on Wednesday.

The Times of India

Just Fontaine, France’s record World Cup goalscorer, dies aged 89

The French football legend Just Fontaine, who in 1958 scored a record 13 goals in a single edition of the World Cup, has died aged 89

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French court dismisses lawsuit against TotalEnergies pipeline in Africa

A French civil court on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit brought by environmental campaigners against the French energy giant TotalEnergies over its oil projects in Uganda and Tanzania.

Daily Mirror

Just Fontaine dead: Striker who scored most goals in single World Cup passes away

France striker Just Fontaine, who holds the record for the most goals scored at a single World Cup having scored 13 in 1958, has passed away aged 89

France 24

France’s Just Fontaine, who scored record 13 goals at 1958 World Cup, dies at 89

French football legend Just Fontaine, the all-time top scorer in a single World Cup tournament, has died aged 89, his family said on Wednesday.

Daily Mirror

Steve Borthwick opts for Ford focus and books Marcus Smith to travel club class

England head coach vows to do homework on ALL his fly-half options ahead of next week's French Test

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Football London

David Moyes sets West Ham challenge for Alphonse Areola and delivers Newcastle United warning

West Ham United goalkeeper Alphonse Areola could be set to make an extended run in the Premier League imminently following a nasty facial injury to first-choice stopper Lukasz Fabianski

France 24

‘Orion’ military exercises: A fictitious war, but a real test for French troops

Last week France launched Orion 23, months-long military exercises involving thousands of troops, naval and land vehicles, aircraft and an aircraft carrier. The joint military exercises had been in the works since 2020, but as Western powers learned the lessons of the Ukraine war, Orion 23 grew bigger, more ambitious,…

InsideEVs

France: Plug-In Car Sales Noticeably Increased In January 2023

Last month some 27,003 new plug-in vehicles were registered in France (up 41.5 percent year-over-year), including 24,930 passenger plug-in cars.

Radio France Internationale

French PM placates farmers with plan for pesticide alternatives

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has unveiled a plan to develop alternatives to the most widely used pesticides, assuring farmers of the state's support at her first visit to the annual agriculture show.

Wales Online

Tonight's rugby news as Gatland's gameplan defended and Wales' best three players named

The latest rugby headlines from Wales and beyond

Radio France Internationale

France among EU countries uniting to boost nuclear power

Eleven European Union nations on Tuesday agreed to "strengthen cooperation" on nuclear energy, which they said would help Europe move away from carbon-emitting fossil fuels. But several member states are fiercely opposed, with Germany and Spain leading the criticism.

Radio France Internationale

Acclaimed Senegalese singer Ismaïla Touré dies in France

Senegalese singer Ismaïla Touré, co-founder of the band Touré Kunda that spearheaded world music in France in the late 1970s, has died in Paris after a long illness. He was 73.

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