While stock markets soar, making the world’s wealthy even richer, French luxury brand Hermès says it is to open three new factories to meet demand for its pricey handbags, like the so-called 'Birkin bag', and has opened a leather-working school to train more craftspeople to make them.
A court in Grenoble, south-east France, on Friday sentenced former French army dog handler Nordahl Lelandais, 39, to life imprisonment, with a tariff of 22 years, for the abduction and murder in 2017 of eight-year-old Maëlys De Araujo, his second murder conviction in less than a year.
Amid high diplomatic tensions between France and the military regime in Mali, President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday announced a withdrawl of French military presence in the west African country, deployed nine years ago in a campaign to contain jihadist insurgents.
Four alleged accomplices in the July 2016 murder of 85-year-old French priest Jacques Hamel, whose throat was cut by two teenagers who claimed to be acting in the name of the so-called Islamic State group, has opened in Paris.
An investigation into arson has been opened after a fire, apparently caused by an explosion, swept a residential building in the early hours of Monday in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, close to Perpignan, in southern France, leaving at least seven people dead, including two children, and another 37 people injured.
Transport police shot dead a man who reportedly threatened them with a knife during the early rush hour on Monday inside the Paris Gare du Nord station, the busiest in Europe, which officials later said is not believed to be a terrorist-related incident.
At a rally that drew around 7,000 supporters in Paris on Sunday, the 54-year-old conservative candidate in April's presidential elections, Valérie Pécresse, sandwiched in opinion polls between two far-right candidates and well adrift of outgoing president Emmanuel Macron, gave a hardline speech pledging to crackdown on immigration and to fight so-called 'woke culture' in the cause of building 'a new France'.
More than 50 people were arrested and several hundred fined as a so-called 'freedom convoy' of vehicles reached Paris in protest over France's Covid-19 vaccine pass requirements for access to a number of public venues.
Before his meeting in Moscow with President Vladimir Putin on Monday, Emmanuel Macron refused to submit to a Russian PCR test for Covid over fears that his DNA could be extracted, sources close to the French president told news agency Reuters.
Virologist Luc Montagnier, who, together with his colleague Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, was awarded the Nobel Prize for isolating the human immunodeficiency virus that was later found to cause Aids, and who since caused controversy with unsubstantiated claims, notably over the causes of autism and the origins of Covid-19, has died at his home near Paris at the age of 89.
The Indonesian government on Thursday signed a deal for the immediate purchase from France of six Rafale fighter jets, with an option for a further 36, to replace an ageing air force fleet of mostly US F-16s and Russian Sukhois, and to a backdrop of rising US-China tensions in the Asian region.
Building work began on Thursday to erect a 180-metre-tall triangular office block in Paris, which will be the third-tallest site within the French capital, and which Green party councillors have described as an 'aberration' that carries a 'catastrophic carbon footprint'.
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