In an effort to lessen the energy supply crisis, utilities giant EDF has committed itself to bringing back into service by this coming winter all 32 of its 56 reactors in France that have been shut down for maintenance and repairs, energy transition minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher said on Friday.
An elite gendarmerie group has entered into contact with hackers who have paralysed the computer systems of a large hospital close to Paris and negotiated a reduction of their ransom demand from 10 million euros to 1 million euros, according to French press reports.
Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatiev, 34, who took part in the invasion of Ukraine, last weekend requested asylum in France after fleeing his regiment in face of what he said were threats of years in prison for having denounced the war and the poor state of Russia's military.
Former US president Donald Trump boasted that he had secret details about French President Emmanuel Macron's love life, according to Rolling Stone magazine, which reports, citing sources, that the existence of a document entitled 'info re: President of France' seized by FBI officers at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month caused 'a trans-Atlantic freakout'.
Former rugbyman Claude Atcher has been suspended from his post as head of the 2023 Rugby World Cup organising committee following what sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castera called 'alarming managerial practices' and 'infringements of financial probity'.
Sandrine Rousseau, a Member of Parliament with France's EELV Green party and a self-declared “eco-feminist”, prompted criticism from the Right when, arguing for less meat consumption, she said that the country had 'to change mentality so that eating steak cooked on a barbecue is not a symbol of virility'.
The French tax authorities are extending the use of a system developed by Google and Capgemini which can identify swimming pools on aerial images and cross-check them with land registry databases to see if they were officially declared.
Two Air France pilots have been suspended from duty after an argument in the cockpit turned into a fight during a passenger-carrying flight from Paris to Geneva, according to media reports.
Footballer Paul Pogba, who plays in the French national team and who rejoined Juventus from Manchester United this summer, said he has been threatened by a gang demanding 13 million euros in an extortion attempt involving his brother Mathias Pogba.
Reacting to comments by Liz Truss, the favourite in the two-horse race to become the UK's next prime minister, who when asked at a public debate if Emmanuel Macron was a "friend or foe" replied that "the jury is still out", said that if France and Britain "aren't able to say if we're friends or foes - the term isn't neutral - we're heading towards serious problems".
Convicted British conman Robert Hendy-Freegard, 51, whose criminal past is the subject of a Netflix series, is being hunted by French police after he reportedly drove his car at two gendarmes, injuring both, as he fled his property in central France.
French President Emmanuel Macron began a three-day visit to Algeria on Thursday, which his office said was to 'lay a foundation to rebuild and develop' the often frought relations between the two countries, while analysts say that Macron will press for an increase in Algerian gas exports.
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