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Monaco Royals Rocked By New Claims Over Offshore Assets

Claims by a former close confidant of Monaco's royal family that part of its fortune is placed in tax havens have rocked the affluent city state, in the latest scandal facing the palace under Prince Albert II. The new controversy erupted after French newspaper Le Monde last week published the…

International Business Times

‘€600k to pay off her overdraft’: aide lifts lid on Monaco royals’ lavish spending

Sacked after 22 years as family’s principal asset manager, Claude Palmero has shared shocking details with French media

The Guardian - UK

Secret recordings and ‘dripping insinuations’: the bitter feud between French film star Alain Delon’s children

Now 88, the star leads a reclusive life and his children are in a legal battle over his treatment

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Paris names street after David Bowie on what would have been his 77th birthday

Rue David-Bowie sits between two modern office buildings, including the headquarters of news publications Le Monde and L'Obs

Evening Standard

'Pushes us closer to the abyss': Former Azerbaijani oil executive to head COP29

Azerbaijan's ecology minister and former oil executive Mukhtar Babayev was on Friday appointed to lead the United Nations' annual climate talks in a move that has sparked concern among NGOs and environmentalists who voiced similar worries over last year’s COP28 chair Sultan Al Jaber, chief of the United Arab Emirates’…

France 24

Macron's new health minister implicated in luxury gifts scandal

France's new health minister, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, on Friday confirmed she was among several pharmacists under investigation for allegedly accepting gifts from one of the country's top laboratories. Firmin Le Bodo was appointed after her predecessor resigned in protest at the government's contentious new immigration law.

Radio France Internationale

French health minister resigns over contentious immigration law

France's health minister has resigned over the adoption of a controversial immigration law backed by the far-right, a government spokesman said on Wednesday, while denying there was any rebellion within President Emmanuel Macron's cabinet.

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French health minister quits as immigration law splits Macron’s ruling party

French President Emmanuel Macron faced cracks within his ruling alliance on Wednesday as Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau tendered his resignation in protest at a controversial immigration law that the far right's Marine Le Pen hailed as an "ideological victory" for her camp.

France 24

‘He reflected the laughable complexity of the world’: Milan Kundera remembered by Florence Noiville

The literary editor recalls her contributor and friend, a deep political thinker, talented musician and mischievous dinner companion

The Guardian - UK

French doctors vow to ‘disobey’ bill stripping undocumented migrants of healthcare rights

A push by France’s conservative-led Senate to strip undocumented migrants of their access to free healthcare has sparked a public outcry among workers across the medical profession, many of whom have pledged to ignore a measure they describe as an ethical, sanitary and financial aberration.

France 24

Could exiled former Palestinian leader Mohammed Dahlan lead Gaza after the Israel-Hamas war?

The former leader of Fatah in Gaza, Mohammed Dahlan, has been living in exile in the United Arab Emirates for the past 10 years, where he has become a successful businessman. Born in the Palestinian coastal enclave, Dahlan is a powerful financial force in Gaza and an influential figure in…

France 24

World’s second richest man LVMH's Bernard Arnault under investigation in Paris over connections to Russian oligarch

French prosecutors said the investigation has been underway since 2022. Bernard Arnault's lawyers said money-laundering allegations linking to Nikolai Sarkisov were "absurd and groundless."

Fortune

Billionaire Louis Vuitton owner Bernard Arnault and Russian oligarch investigated in money-laundering probe

Probe into loans allegedly given to a Russian oligarch to buy a luxury Alpine resort

The Independent UK

French billionaire investigated in money laundering probe

French billionaire Bernard Arnault and Russian oligarch Nikolai Sarkisov are under investigation for alleged money laundering at a luxury Alpine resort, according to Paris prosecutors.

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France 24

From welcoming refugees to the crisis in Lampedusa, six years of French immigration policy

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Tuesday that France would not be taking in any of the migrants who arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa last week. FRANCE 24 looks back at six years of French U-turns on immigration policies.

Al Jazeera

Gabon coup leaders to meet and decide Bongo fate, new leader

Brice Nguema, leader of the Republican Guard and relative to President Bongo, did not confirm his whereabouts.

Newslaundry

Between science and geopolitics: Global media and the new space race

In 1969, when American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first to land on the Moon, the banner headline on the front page of German paper Bild had said “the Moon is now American”.

Radio France Internationale

West African bloc meets on Niger as AU 'rebuffs' military move

Defence leaders from West Africa’s Ecowas bloc began meeting in Ghana on Thursday to coordinate a potential military intervention in Niger, whose president was ousted in a coup. The talks come amid disagreement between African countries over the idea of foreign military action, after Ecowas said it would prepare a…

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The Guardian - UK

‘We fight on’: fears for France’s Sunday paper over editor with far-right ties

Bitter strike at Journal du Dimanche ends with staff exodus – and arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune

Radio France Internationale

France seeks to meet record number of requests for assisted reproduction

France's health ministry has announced new measures to meet the ever-increasing demand for sperm and the freezing of eggs, two years after France extended the right to medically assisted reproduction to all women.

The Conversation

Out of danger because the UN said so? Hardly – the Barrier Reef is still in hot water

Today is a good day to be Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek. UNESCO, the United Nations body expected to vote on whether to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”, instead deferred the decision for another year. This, an insider told French newspaper Le Monde, was largely due to the…

The Week

What role is Russia playing in the Niger coup?

Thousands of supporters of the junta that seized power in Niger last week have taken to the streets to wave Russian flags and sing the name of Vladimir Putin.

Zenger

European Israel Press Association Plans Expansion In Eastern Europe And Scandinavia

The nonprofit aims to establish offices in new regions and educate journalists on the realities of Israel.

France 24

France’s Murdoch? Right-wing media swoop threatens ‘pillar of French democracy’

The shock appointment of a far-right editor to run one of France’s best-known mainstream newspapers has sparked calls for urgent steps to protect the pluralism and independence of the French press, while underscoring a sharp rightwards shift of the country's media landscape under billionaire Vincent Bolloré.

France 24

Photojournalist Chloe Sharrock: 'By choosing to cover a story we are already taking sides'

She's documented war and conflict – and its devastating aftermath – in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and Gaza, and shone a spotlight on women's struggles in India and Egypt, with her images appearing in the likes of Le Monde, Libération, The Washington Post, Newsweek and Stern Magazine. She's back in France…

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