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  • Socialists pull candidates out of three regional election contests

    France — Link

    The Socialist Party orders its third-placed candidates stand down for second-round vote to favour conservatives and block far-right Front National.

  • The powers of France's 'super' regions

    France — Link

    French regions are in charge of economic development, tourism, business development, professional training and oversee public transport.

  • U2 performs postponed Paris concert, pays tribute to terror victims

    International — Link

    After November's terror attacks forced cancellation of their iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE concert, U2 were back on stage in a 20,300-seat arena. 

  • French regional elections: first round as it happened plus final results

    France

    France went to the urns on Sunday in the first of two-round elections to decide the makeup of the councils of France’s 13 newly-formed ‘super’ regions. The poll, held December 6th and 13th, is an important test of the French political map, 18 months away from presidential and parliamentary elections. The final results show a massive victory for the far-right Front National, which garnered the biggest share of the vote nationwide and goes into the second round next Sunday with its candidates in the lead in six regions. This is Mediapart’s coverage in English of results and reaction after the first-round vote on Sunday, with an update of final scores on Monday.

  • France goes to the polls in regional elections

    France — Link

    Far-right Front national party hopes to win control of two regions, while conservatives tipped for wide gains and ruling socialists for large defeat.

  • Paris climate conference delegates agree draft text

    International — Link

    The 195 national delegates at the COP 21 negotiations worked overnight night to meet deadline for a text to be debated by ministers on Monday.

  • France issues public guide on actions to take amid a terrorist attack

    France — Link

    The cartoon, similar to aircraft safety instruction cards, available online and to be posted in public places, advises people to flee, hide and raise the alarm.

  • France captain Thierry Dusautoir quits international rugby

    France — Link

    The Ivory Coast-born flanker, 34, who made 80 appearances for France and led the team a record 56 times, said to continue would be 'vanity'.

  • French, Belgian police identify two new suspects in Paris terror attacks

    International — Link

    CCTV images purportedly show Soufiane Kayal and Samir Bouzid entering Hungary in September with Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam.

  • Hollande visits French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle off Syria

    International — Link

    The French president met with personnel aboard the French navy flagship, the spearhead for French airstrikes on Islamic State group in Syria.

  • First of Paris terrorist attack bars reopens

    France — Link

    Exactly three weeks after the street massacres by jihadist gunmen, Paris bar La Bonne Bière, where five people died, reopened on Friday.

  • The 'dangerous ideas' of extending France's state of emergency powers

    France — Link

    In an editorial, The New York Times argues strongly against moves by Paris to adopt powers that 'threaten the civil rights of an entire nation'.

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