Protest marches against President Emmanuel Macron's pensions system reforms were held across France on Thursday, with turnout ranging between 380,000 and 1.5 million according to the conflicting accounts of police and trades unions, ahead of a crucial ruling by France's Constitutional Council due on Friday on the legality of the legislation and opposition demands for a referendum over the issue.
The Paris home of French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, which has been kept by his actress daughter Charlotte in the same state since his death in 1991, complete with thousands of items including artworks and clothes, and overflowing ashtrays, is to open to the public as the 'Maison Gainsbourg'.
Paris Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier has strongly denied 'insulting and defamatory remarks' that he had voiced racist comments towards a section of players at his former club Nice following French media reports of an internal complaint made against him by an ex-Nice sporting director.
Christian Ally Moussa, 42, drowned along with about 34 other people when their boat went down off the coast of Madagascar on March 12th as they were attempting to reach the French island of Mayotte, from where he had earlier been deported before he was able to attend a hearing over his application for French citizenship.
French President Emmanuel Macron's two-day state visit to the Netherlands was on Wednesday dogged by further protests over his pension reforms at home, and his controversial comments urging European nations to act independently from the US over increasing tensions between China and Taiwan.
The French president called for the EU to implement its stated policy of "strategic autonomy" and argued the bloc could become a "third pole" alongside China and the United States.
Allies don’t always see things the same way, as Emmanuel Macron’s cozy visit to Xi Jinping made abundantly clear, writes the Paris bureau chief of The New York Times.
Samuel Paty was beheaded in 2020 by 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov, who was shot dead by police at the scene of Paty's killing at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
Xi Jinping thinks France can stop the EU falling further under Joe Biden’s influence.
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