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France eyes petrol vouchers for low-income households to ease spike in energy prices

French ministers floated the potential for petrol vouchers for low-income households on Monday, as President Emmanuel Macron's authorities seeks to restrict the injury from surging power prices to his financial report six months from a presidential...

French PM meets Pope Francis after devastating clerical child sex abuse report

French Prime Minister Jean Castex met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday because the French Catholic Church battles a storm over clerical baby intercourse abuse and the sanctity of confession.

Macron’s condemnation of 1961 massacre in Paris ‘not enough’, historians say

Historians and activists in France have expressed disappointment that President Emmanuel Macron did not go further in his condemnation of the lethal crackdown in 1961 by Paris police on protest by Algerians, the size of which was coated up for decad...

The toxic impacts of fires at the world's largest tyre graveyard in Kuwait

Surprising pictures of a fireplace last April at an enormous "tyre graveyard" in Kuwait went viral this summer time, revealing a critical environmental drawback that faces the small Gulf nation. More than 50 million tyres have been dumped on the Sal...

Kenya's Elisha Rotich and Ethiopia's Tigist Memuye win Paris marathon

Kenya's Elisha Rotich gained the lads's race and Ethiopia's Tigist Memuye topped the ladies's podium on the Paris Marathon on Sunday.

French PM pays tribute to slain teacher Samuel Paty on anniversary of his death

French Prime Minister Jean Castex paid tribute to high school instructor Samuel Paty on Saturday, one yr after he was beheaded by an extremist after displaying his class cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed.

Macron condemns 'inexcusable' police crackdown on 1961 Paris protest of Algerians

President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday turned the first French head of state to participate in commemorations of the massacre by Paris police of protesters at a rally 60 years in the past towards France's rule in its then-colony Algeria. He stopped i...

‘The violence shook me profoundly’: Teachers, students remember Samuel Paty’s murder

One yr on from the ugly killing of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty, murdered by an Islamist militant for having proven cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a class on freedom of expression, college students and academics spoke to FRANCE 24 about how...

Macron leads homage to Hubert Germain, last member of French Resistance order

President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute on Friday to the final surviving member of an order honouring heroes of France's liberation during World Warfare Two who died this week.

Remembering the 1961 massacre of Algerians in the heart of Paris

This week marks 60 years since some 200 Algerians have been murdered in central Paris by French police. At the peak of the Algerian Warfare of Independence, hundreds of people, most of them Algerians dwelling in the suburbs of Paris, descended on th...

French finance minister calls on US to end trade disputes with Europe

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Thursday referred to as on the USA to place an end to trade rivalries with Europe, stressing that a "robust" France and Europe are in America's curiosity.

France honours ‘quiet hero’ teacher killed for showing Prophet Mohammed cartoons

A yr after the brutal murder of a French instructor, beheaded for displaying his students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, faculties are scuffling with methods to train core French values with out inflaming tensions with young Muslims.

Covid health pass prevails over French vaccine scepticism in boost for Macron

France’s introduction of a controversial health cross has proved a hit in dealing with threats posed by excessive rates of vaccine scepticism and the Delta variant – whereas providing President Emmanuel Macron a useful political card to play ahead o...

Court orders France to meet its own greenhouse gas reduction targets

A French courtroom has ordered the state to honour its commitments on climate change, environmental organisations bringing the case stated on Thursday.

Rising fertiliser prices may prompt French farmers to switch grain crops

Surging costs and tight supply of fertilisers have swelled grain farmers' prices and could immediate some to modify from maize to much less fertiliser-reliant crops next spring, farm workplace FranceAgriMer stated on Wednesday.