The underground isolation experiment saw the subjects, aged between 27 and 50, give up watches, phones and natural light, exchanging modern comforts for a cave system with a constant 12 Celsius temperature and 95 percent humidity.
France is currently experiencing its third lockdown as the government bets that by sacrificing the Easter holidays it can save the summer vacation period.
French president spoke after a female police officer was stabbed to death outside a police station south west of Paris by a suspected Islamist extremist from Tunisia who was then shot dead by the security forces.
Anti-terror prosecutors are leading probe into murder of 49-year-old unarmed female officer who was stabbed in the neck as she returned from her lunch break; her attacker was then shot dead.
Fench defence minister Florence Parly said Chad’s slain leader Idriss Déby had been an essential ally in the fight against terrorism in the Sahelregion of Africa.
But new entry restrictions on travellers from India will be imposed to fight the spread of a contagious coronavirus variant, a French government official said.
The French donation of an initial 100,000 doses of AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine this month, announced on Wednesday, is a boost for the international COVAX scheme.
French president wants law change after Jewish groups reacted with outrage to the decision by France’s highest court that Kobili Traoré was not criminally responsible for the murder in 2017 of Sarah Halimi because of the drugs he had taken.
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