Struggling giant French retailer Carrefour, one of France’s biggest private-sector employers, has announced it is to close a large number of its mega-stores and a sell-off of its Dia chain, with a restructuring towards online business, organic retailing and a partnership in China.
An open-ended strike by French prison guards over pay and conditions, prompted by a series of assaults on staff in several jails across the country, will enter a second week on Monday, with unions calling for a ‘total blockage’ of establishments after government proposals to increase staff numbers were rejected at the weekend.
French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking in a television interview with the BBC, said he shared the outrage of African countries after US President Donald Trump reportedly described Central American and African nations as ‘shithole countries’ at a White House meeting with lawmakers earlier this month.
Bocuse was arguably the most influential French chef of the 20th century, who managed several restaurants in France but also the US, Japan and Switzerland, and whose Auberge du Pont de Collonges establishment near Lyon was the only restaurant to have been continuously awarded Michelin’s top three stars for more than 50 years.
The UK could have "deeper relations" with the EU than other countries after it leaves the bloc, with a deal somewhere between access to the single market and a trade agreement, said French President Emmanuel Macron in an interview with the BBC to be broadcast on Sunday.
French surgeons have transplanted a new face on a man in his forties whose immune system had rejected a donor face grafted upon him seven years ago, in what France’s biomedicine agency sais was the first repeat facial transplant.
UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson's proposition to build a road traffic bridge linking England and France, which he mooted at Thursday's summit meeting between the British and French governments, has been dismissed by industrial bodies and experts as impractical and unnecessary.
Violent clashes between prison guards and riot police erupted on Friday outside the vast Fleury-Mérogis prison near Paris on the fifth day of national industrial action by jail staff across France protesting at undermanning and security, as news emerged that inmates had attacked and wounded staff in a prison in Corsica.
A court in Nice found Patricia Dagorn, 57, guilty of killing two elderly men found dead on the Cote d'Azur in 2011 and of drugging two others, crimes which prosecutors said the 'psycopathic' divorcee carried out for enrichment.
The former British advertising agency copywriter and author of self-help books found fame and fortune in 1989 when he published a humorous account of he and his wife’s move to Ménerbes, a village in the Luberon in southern France, which sold more than six million copies and was translated into 40 languages.
The retired, once prominent French actress, 83, told Paris Match magazine many screen stars complaining of sexual harassment are 'hypocritical and ridiculous' in their claims and often practice 'the tease with producers to get a role'.
Greek media reports say Athens is to begin negotiating the purchase from France of two French-Italian-designed FFREM-class multimission frigates, and is eyeing a further deal for two French Gowind-class corvettes.
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