French President Emmanuel Macron described as 'not serious' UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's choice of using Twitter to set out policy propositions to France over clandestine crossings of the Channel, while an invitation for Home Secretary Priti Patel to attend a meeting in Calais on the issue has been withdrawn.
The ports of Saint-Malo, Ouistreham and Calais were subjected to a brief blockade by French fishers on Friday in what they called a 'symbolic' warning of how they would block freight moving across the Channel if the UK does not provide them with more licences to fish in its waters.
The latest toll of the sinking of a dinghy carrying migrants attempting to cross the Channel from France to the UK on Wednesday is at least 27 dead, including seven women, one of whom was pregnant, and three children, while two survivors are critically ill in hospital.
At least 31 migrants attempting to cross the Channel to Britain have died after their dinghy capsized on Thursday afternoon in seas close to the French port of Calais, where a search for survivors is continuing into the night.
Stéphane Richard, CEO of French telecoms giant Orange, has been handed a suspended jail sentence after he was found guilty by a Paris appeals court of aiding and abetting the misuse of public funds in a case centered on a 403-million-euro state payout awarded in 2008 to late French tycoon Bernard Tapie.
French footballer Karim Benzema, who plays for Real Madrid and the France national team, has been handed a one-year suspended jail term and a fine of 75,000 euros after he was found guilty by a Versailles court of conspiring with others to blackmail a team-mate over a sexually explicit video found on his mobile phone.
As talks over their demands for the granting of more post-Brexit fishing licences in UK waters appear deadlocked, French fishers say they are ready to mount targeted blockades to stop freight crossing the Channel.
A recent series of violent incidents during football matches in France's top-flight Ligue 1, the latest on Sunday when Marseille's Dimitri Payet was hit on the head by a bottle thrown by a Lyon fan, is placing at stake 'the survival of French soccer' said sports minister Roxana Maracineanu.
France has sent police reinforcements, including elite units, to its Caribbean island La Guadeloupe after a week of riots escalated this weekend, amid protests against the introduction of restrictions on movement to counter the coronavirus epidemic, and to a background of long-simmering social unrest.
After Covid-19 restrictions last winter caused a collapse in earnings for French ski resorts, they begin reopening this month for what one official at Val d'Isère said was a 'crucial' season for local businesses.
A 70-year-old man hunting wild boar in a hillside forest in south-west France was left badly wounded after a female brown bear, who was reportedly with two cubs, attacked him before he was able to shoot the animal dead.
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