People arriving in Britain from France as of Sunday will no longer be required to quarantine for 11 nights after a change to controversial travel restrictions introduced last month over the percieved high threat of coronavirus Beta variant carriers.
France's Council of State, the country's highest administrative court, on Wednesday fined the government 10 milion euros for its failure to take appropriate measures to combat air pollution which, according to some estimates, causes around 40,000 premature deaths every year.
Hosting an international donors' conference by video link to raise funds to help rebuild infrastructures in debt-crippled Lebanon, French President Emmanuel Macron slammed the Middle East country's political leaders for a 'historic and moral failure' to enact urgent reforms.
Provence and the Riviera in south-east France, along with the Mediterranean island of Corsica, all highly popular summer destinations for tourists, have declared emergency measures to deal with a surge in hospital admissions of Covid-19 cases, with medical staff reporting that the patient age-groups are notably younger than previously seen.
French pharmaceutical group Sanofi has announced it is buying US firm Translate Bio, with which it has been working to develop an mRNA Covid jab, for 3.2 billion dollars, as it attempts to make up lost ground in the colossal market for Covid jabs.
In a social media address to persuade the young to sign up for Covid-19 vaccinations, French President Emmanuel Macron sported a relaxed dress style, but the logo on his T-shirt has prompted speculation among some that it was a secret message.
According to British government sources cited in the media, diplomatic tensions are running high between London and Paris, stalling moves to hold a joint summit.
Huan Huan, a giant panda loaned to France by China, gave birth on Monday to twin cubs described as 'magnificent' by the director of the Zoo-Parc de Beauval in central France where she and the father, Yuan Zi, are kept.
French interior minister Gérald Darmanin has presented a series of new measures to tackle domestic violence, which last year led to the deaths of 125 people, mostly women, and was the reason for more than 400,000 police call-outs.
More than 200,000 people, according to official figures, took part in marches around France this weekend protesting against recently introduced measures which require a person to carry a health pass showing they are free of coronavirus infection or vaccinated before entering a wide range of public venues.
Partial skeletal remains found in the Pyrenees mountains along a line between the French and Spanish border has been identified by DNA analysis as being that of British hiker Esther Dingley, 37, who mysteriously disappeared in the region in November 2020.
France has described a decision to impose quarantine isolation on all travellers arriving in England from France - and unlike from other EU countries - as excessive, discriminatory and 'scientifically unfounded'.
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