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Maz Jobrani and the Comedy Stop Festival bring an international line-up to Paris

The Comedy Stop Festival kicked off on September 15 in Paris with performances from Australian comic Celeste Barber and local talent Paul Taylor. Iranian-American comedian Maz Jobrani is also in the French capital for the festival. He is performing at Paris's Apollo Theatre on Sunday, with other performances planned at…

France 24

Romain Gavras: ‘My dad fed me Tarkovsky from the age of seven’

Rejecting his director father’s love of arthouse, the film-maker threw himself into pop videos. Now, with his political drama Athena, he’s joining the family business

The Guardian - UK

Queen to be honoured in France with Le Touquet-Paris-Plage airport renaming

Seaside resort where Emmanuel Macron has a holiday home was visited by Elizabeth II as a child

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Flights in Europe disrupted by French air traffic control strike

European flights faced widespread disruption on Friday as a French air traffic controllers' strike forced airlines to cancel half of those scheduled to arrive or depart Paris airports and others due to have flown over France.

Reuters

Diaghilev’s Empire by Rupert Christiansen review – brilliance of the Ballets Russes

How the visionary impresario’s revolutionary ballet company took the Paris of Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel by storm

The Guardian - UK

Irish passengers urged to check travel plans as Aer Lingus and Ryanair forced to cancel over 430 flights

Aer Lingus has cancelled four flights between Dublin and Paris today due to industrial action being taken by French air traffic controllers

Irish Mirror

Irish Wish: Lindsay Lohan rom-com adds Outlander and Emily in Paris stars to cast

Fantasy romantic comedy will mark Lohan’s return to film after a significant break from lead roles

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Ukraine combs mass burial site in Izium, says signs of torture found

Bodies exhumed from a mass burial site near the easter Ukrainian town of Izium "showed signs of violent death", a Ukrainian official said on Friday in what President Volodymyr Zelensky called proof of war crimes by Russian forces. The discovery came as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi put pressure on…

France 24

Jean-Luc Godard: how his prickly fragmented filmmaking asked all the right questions

Jean-Luc Godard, who has died at the age of 91, was the last survivor of the French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague), the immensely influential movement of rebellious young filmmakers and critics who ensured that French cinema was the focus of film goers’ attention at the start of the 1960s.

The Conversation

French court hands Yemenia Airways maximum fine over 2009 crash

A Paris court has convicted Yemen's national airline of involuntary homicide and injuries over a 2009 crash that killed 152 of the people on board. The only survivor was a 12-year-old girl.

Radio France Internationale

King of Jordan Visits France to Boost Strategic Partnership

French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the visit of the Jordanian monarch to Paris in his speech last month during the annual French Ambassadors' Conference and referred to the second Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership. The Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership was held in the Iraqi capital during the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine finds 'mass grave' in recaptured city of Izyum

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said in an interview Thursday she wants Russian President Vladimir Putin to face the International Criminal Court over war crimes in Ukraine. Volunteer medic Yuliia Paievska, who was captured by Russia in Mariupol, told US lawmakers Thursday how Russians routinely tortured her and others.…

France 24

How the tide turned on data centres in Europe

PARIS: Every time we make a call on Zoom, upload a document to the cloud or stream a video, our computers connect to vast warehouses filled with servers to store or access data.

Bangkok Post

The ‘anti-conference’, a collaborative way to create innovative teaching methods

A series of recent events in France have shown that younger generations are increasingly dissatisfied with current science programmes. During a graduation ceremony on May 10, a group of students from AgroParisTech, an institution specialised in agricultural sciences, called on their fellow students to abandon their studies in light of the…

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The Guardian - UK

Made in France: the only recording of God Save the King to be had

Parisian opera singer’s 2017 version corners the market with hundreds of thousands of plays online

Daily Mirror

Baaeed misses Arc as superstar's final race confirmed to be Ascot's Champion Stakes

Trainer William Haggas has chosen Ascot's Qipco British Champions Day over a trip to Paris for the unbeaten thoroughbred, following talks with owner Sheikha Hissa

The Guardian - UK

France must rethink case of IS-linked women refused re-entry, rules ECHR

Families argued detention in Syria exposed the two women and their children to inhumane treatment

France 24

Final cut: Looking back at Jean-Luc Godard's cinematic genius

The kinetic, experimental style of films like "Breathless" and "Pierrot le Fou" saw Jean-Luc Godard crowned among the leading lights of the French New Wave. Following the Franco-Swiss filmmaker's death at 91, Lisa Nesselson tells us how Godard's formal innovations revolutionised European cinema, bringing Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Anna Karina…

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French court to rule on Yemeni plane crash that killed 152

A French court is expected to issue a verdict in the trial of the Yemeni airline that operated a passenger plane that crashed in 2009, killing 152 people

Daily Mirror

Man Utd emerge as Kylian Mbappe transfer option as 'walk-out clause' comes to light

Kylian Mbappe signed a new contract with Paris Saint-Germain during the summer window, but it is now claimed he will be able to decide whether he extends his contract beyond 2024

France 24

Zelensky visits recaptured hub of Izyum in east Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday visited the east Ukraine city of Izyum, the military said, one of the largest cities recently recaptured from Russia by Kyiv's army in a lightning counter-offensive. Ukraine has set its sights on freeing all territory occupied by invading Russian forces after driving them back…

Radio France Internationale

Bataclan bomber's widow and child repatriated to France

The wife of a terrorist who helped to murder dozens of people at Paris’s Bataclan concert hall in 2015 has been repatriated from Syria to France along with her three children.

Radio France Internationale

'City of Light' Paris flicks dimmer switch to save on energy costs

To cope with surging electricity costs, Paris is to start switching off ornamental lights on city monuments earlier than usual, as well as reduce heating in public buildings. Meanwhile, a petition to turn off digital advertising screens has garnered thousands of signatures.

Asharq Al-Awsat

NY Opens Immersive Digital Art Show

Art lovers in New York can now enjoy an immersive digital experience with works by Gustav Klimt projected onto the walls and floors of a building that used to be a bank. The goal, its creators say, is to bring young people and others into a 21st-century museum. The exhibit,…

The Conversation

Jean-Luc Godard has died. He redefined what film is, and leaves a staggering legacy

So, adieu Jean-Luc Godard. The titan of French cinema has died, aged 91, leaving behind a staggering legacy.

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