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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.

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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.

Radio France Internationale

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.

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‘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."

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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.

Radio France Internationale

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.

France 24

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.

Al Jazeera

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”.

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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…

Radio France Internationale

‘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

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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.

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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…

The Week

How the world reported French riots over shooting of teenage boy

The killing of a 17-year-old boy by police during a traffic stop in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre last week has triggered days of unrest in France.

France 24

Doppelgänger: France accuses Russia of usurping news websites in disinformation campaign

France has uncovered a major disinformation campaign by Russia, in which leading French media websites like Le Monde, Le Parisien and 20 Minutes have been imitated in order to spread fake news about the war in Ukraine. We tell you how to identify these fake news websites in this edition…

The Guardian - UK

Four children and two adults injured in knife attack in French Alps

Police detain man after attacks in lakeside playground that left children in critical condition

The Week

The resurgence of ‘ticking timebomb’ tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is set to overtake Covid-19 as the world’s most deadly infectious disease, with medical experts warning its resurgence represents a “ticking timebomb” healthcare emergency.

Radio France Internationale

French army accused of failing to stop journalist's kidnapping in Mali

French forces tried to use a journalist's visit to northern Mali to track a jihadist leader but failed to prevent the reporter from being kidnapped by the militants, a joint investigation by RFI, newspapers Le Monde and Liberation and broadcaster TV5Monde has found.

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