The French government has allowed hunters to continue using horizontal net traps to catch wild birds, mostly thousands of skylarks, in what it called a temporary 'experimental study' and which one leading bird protection activist called 'unworthy of a country that claims to be a leader in the recovery of biodiversity'.
A French navy helicopter-carrier, the Tonnerre, has left its home port of Toulon for Gaza where, President Emmanuel Macron has announced, it will 'support' overwhelmed hospitals in the bomb-pounded Palestinian enclave with medical supplies and, if required, provide on-board hospital care for civilians.
French President Emmanuel Macron, during whistlestop visits to meet leaders in Israel, the West Bank, Jordan and Egypt to discuss the crisis in the Middle East, when he declared France's 'full solidarity' with Israel but called on it to refrain from any massive invasion of Gaza, has proposed the creation of a 'regional and international coalition' against the Hamas group that rules over the Palestinian enclave.
US actor Dwayne Johnson has asked the Musée Grevin gallery in Paris to modify his waxwork effigy, presented to the public this month, over 'some important details, starting with my skin colour'.
Hundreds of love letters written by prominent French gangster Jacques Mesrine, who died in a hail of police bullets in Paris in 1979, to his girlfriend Jeanne Schneider are to be sold in Paris in November by auctioneers who say, despite his claim to have killed 39 people, they show 'he could be quite funny, romantic, a bit misogynistic, but very much in love'.
French President Emmanuel Macron is to visit Israel on Tuesday when, one of his advisors said, he will present Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with proposals 'as operational as possible' for an end to the escalating war with Hamas.
The Senegalese government is in negotiations to directly buy posessions, previously due to be auctioned in France, of Léopold Sédar Senghor, the West African country's late first president, an illustrious writer, poet and champion of the 'Négritude' movement founded in the 1930s with Aimé Césaire and Léon-Gontran Damas.
A judicial investigation is underway into suspected human trafficking by a company providing Champagne producers with grape pickers, many of whom are from West Africa and who work inspectors found were lodged in insalubrious accomodation which one migrant worker said 'still makes me cry'.
The Palace of Versailles was evacuated over a hoax bomb alert for the sixth time in seven days on Saturday, when regional aiports in Tours and Clerment-Ferrand were also evacuated, as a week-long spate of hoax bomb threats in France targeting schools, cultural sites and airports continues.
The trial for alleged tax fraud has begun in Paris of French actress Isabelle Adjani, whose cinema career began in the 1980s and who starred in films such as La Reine Margot and Camille Claudel, but the 68-year-old star was absent in court due to what her lawyers described as an 'acute illness'.
Six regional airports around France were evacuated on Wednesday after receiving bomb threats, while similar threats also prompted the evacuation of the Château de Versailles near Paris for the third time since Saturday, as the country maintained its highest nationwide security alert for a fifth day.
The broad parliamentary alliance of France's leftwing parties, the NUPES, appeared close to collapse on Wednesday because of strongly diverging opinions over the crisis in the Middle East.
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