French President says he foresees at least some tourists returning to Paris this summer if they have been vaccinated or have proof of testing negative for the coronavirus.
French doctors' unions have launched a campaign to highlight the mental stress of hospital interns amid the Covid-19 crisis, which have seen several young doctors commit suicide, as working hours during the pandemic have risen from the usual weekly 48 to 80.
An eight-year-old girl who was kidnapped in eastern France last Tuesday from the care of her grandmother has been found in Switzerland, where her mother was arrested.
French police have arrested four men aged between 23 and 60 in connection with the kidnapping on Tuesday of an eight-year-old girl, which investigators believe was carried out on behalf of her mother who had lost custody of the child.
Olivier Duhamel , the once senior French political scientist and influential president of a Paris club for the social and political elite, has admitted under police questioning that he sexually abused his stepson when the latter was a minor, confirming accusations made earlier this year by his stepdaughter and which led to his professional downfall.
French nationals have been advised to leave Pakistan due to violent demonstrations after the arrest of the leader of a hardline political party calling for France's ambassador to be expelled over his government's defence of the right to show cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
The French government has halted passenger flights to and from Brazil in a move to contain the spread of a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus, believed to partly accountable for the South American country's spike in deaths from Covid-19, which has already been found in France.
France's aid fund for agricultural catastrophes is to be increased, Prime Minister Jean Casteix has announced, after continuing severe nationwide frosts that followed exceptionally mild weather have wiped out many crops in the bud, especially fruit and including vast amounts of grapes in winegrowing regions.
Following alarming reports of a surge in cases of mental illness among children due to isolating restrictions and anguish brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, including attempted suicides and self-harming, French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced measures to allow free psychiatric counselling for affected minors.
Freezing conditions and exceptional frost over recent days in many winegrowing regions of France where, even in the south, overnight temperatures have plunged to minus 8° Celsius, have destroyed grape buds, leaving some farmers to predict the yield at harvest this year will plunge by as much as 90%.
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