Benjamin Mendy, 28, whose contract with Manchester City expired this month, was acquitted by a Cheshire court of the rape of one woman and the attempted rape of another, leaving him to walk free after a first trial in January had already cleared him of six other rapes.
Many French cities cancelled their traditional firework shows over a familiar issue in France, social unrest, but also because of the daunting one that is climate change.
Following a week-long series of violent national protests earlier this month over the fatal police shooting of a teenager in a Paris suburb, the authorities have ordered a massive police deployment in face of fears that rioting may erupt once more around the traditional Bastille Day celebrations.
From October, people in France will be able to claim back between 6-25 euros of the cost of mending clothes and shoes in workshops in a government plan aimed at tackling over-consumption and resulting waste, which is estimated to result in a yearly jettisoning of around 7,000 tonnes of clothing.
The estimate, based on claims so far, is likely to rise further after a week of riots and looting flared across France after the fatal police shooting of a teenager in a Paris suburb.
After riots in the French suburban housing estates in 2005 , the French government invested billions of euros to revamp the areas, but the similarity of the recent riots, and what spurred them, almost a generation later, raises questions over the failure of those efforts.
France's radical-left party LFI has been fined 40,000 euros in compensation and legal costs for using a work by street artist Combo's depiction of Marianne, the female symbol of the French republic, as a bare-breasted Asian woman, for its campaign videos without asking his permission.
Emile, aged two and a half, went on a walk while his grandparents prepared their car for a family trip from their house in a hamlet in the lower Alps region on Sunday, and despite a search involving a helicopter, drones equipped with thermic cameras and sniffer dogs, the infant remained missing on Monday.
Distrust and resentment smoulder beneath the surface in places like the Paris suburb of La Grande Borne, less visible than the weapons carried by gangs there, but just as likely to explode.
The French government issued a decree on Sunday prohibiting individual use of 'pyrotechnic articles' for the July 14th celebrations that mark Bastille Day, in a move that follows the use of fireworks as weapons against police during recent widespread riots.
Lawyers for the family of Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old black man who died shortly after his arrest by gendarmes in 2016, and whose sister has led a high-profile campaign for the officers to be brought to trial, have mounted a legal challenge against a ban by authorities on a march planned for Saturday in his memory.
French President Emmanuel Macron, meeting on Tuesday with more than 200 mayors from areas afected by the rioting sparked last week after the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old during a police traffic stop, said he believed 'the peak we have experienced in recent days has passed'.
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