French interior minister Gérald Darmanin, whose move to expel imam Hassan Iquioussen, who he accuses of anti-Semitism, opposing gender equality and acting as an apologist for terrorism, was thwarted by a Paris administrative court, has now taken the case before the Council of State, France’s highest administrative court.
Rescuers agttempting to save an undernourished beluga whale which swam up the River Seine towards Paris before being blocked between two locks say they have little hope for its survival after the cetacean, apparently ill, continued to refuse food.
Successive heatwaves and months of exceptionally little rainfall in France have led to more than one hundred municipalities running out of drinking water, while the drought threatens to significantly reduce crop yields.
Gérald Darmanin, France's ambitious hardline interior minister, has been forced into a retreat by President Emmanuel Macron's centre-right government over his plans to propose draft legislation for a cracking down on illegal immigration and beefing up procedures for the expulsion of foreign nationals found guilty of criminal acts.
Exactly 40 years after France repealed the offence of homosexuality, introduced by the wartime collaborationist Vichy regime, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne on Thursday announced the creation of an official post of ambassador for LGBTQ rights.
Officials are puzzled as to why an apparently underwheight beluga whale, a species normally found in cold Arctic waters, is swimming up the River Seine towards the French capital, while environmentalists ponder on how to guide the cetacean back out to sea.
In 2024, Paris will host the Summer Olympics, and the organisers have pledged the games will be “climate positive” because more carbon emissions will be offset than created, while the “environmental excellence” criteria banned the use of tropical timber in the building of the athletes’ village. But, as Jade Lindgaard reports, the tropical timber industry has, after an intensive campaign, now claimed victory.
Current heatwaves affecting France have forced utility giant EDF, which operates Europe's largest national fleet of nuclear reactors, to reduce output of plants situated alongside rivers in southern France because of the climbing temperatures of water used for cooling the facilities.
After its successful passage through parliament's lower house, France's Senate has in turn approved legislation to scrap the country's 138-euro TV licence fee, which public broadcasters have warned will weaken their independence.
Close to 700 people in small boats were recorded on Monday to have clandestinely crossed the Channel to England from France, while the French authorities intercepted two boats carrying 70 people attempting the same journey.
A prosecutor in southern France said an arrested volunteer firefighter, who works fulltime as a forester, has admitted lighting several forest fires in May and July for the 'excitement' and 'adrenaline' it gave him, 'a need for social recognition' and to escape 'an oppressive family environment'.
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is in Paris for talks and dinner on Thursday with President Emmanuel Macron, who is expected to press the Saudi de-facto ruler to increase oil exports to ease the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, in a visit denounced by rights groups and the fiancée of journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was murdered by Saudi agents in 2018.
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