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  • France security law incompatible with human rights, say UN experts

    France — Link

    Special reporters take government in Paris to task over proposed legislation that would give police more power.

  • France launches checks on dozens of mosques

    France — Link

    Interior minister Gérald Darmanin said some could be closed if found to be encouraging 'separatism'.

  • France to prioritize nursing home residents for vaccination

    France — Link

    French PM Jean Castex says that COVID-19 vaccines will go to the homes' residents first when doses become available in France, which is not expected before the end of the month.

  • Former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing dies aged 94

    France — Link

    The ex-president, who was head of state from 1974 to 1981, and who died after after contracting Covid-19, was known for steering the modernisation of French society during his time in office.

  • France to impose border checks to stop skiing abroad

    France — Link

    In common with Germany and Italy, France is shutting its ski lifts over Christmas to stop the spread of Covid-19, but Swiss slopes are already open.

  • French sailor saved after yacht breaks in two in round-the-world race

    France — Link

    Kevin Escoffier has been forced to abandon ship in Vendée Globe race; he was found off Cape of Good Hope 11 hours after sending an alert.

  • Muslims under pressure to sign French values charter

    France — Link

    Muslim Council is due to meet President  Macron to confirm the text of a new 'charter of Republican values'  for imams in France to sign.

  • France's ruling party agrees to 'total rewrite' of security measure

    France — Link

    The measure known as 'Article 24', which is part of a “global security” law, would make it an offence to film and identify police officers online if there is intent to harm.

  • Sarkozy says he is victim of 6 years of 'slander' as trial opens

    France — Link

    Sarkozy has become France's first modern head of state to appear in the dock on charges of corruption and influence peddling.

  • French police officers face formal probe over beating of music producer

    France — Link

    The four officers are reported to have been placed under formal investigation in connection with the beating of music producer Michel Zecler.

  • Nationwide protests in France against security bill and police violence

    France — Link

    Official estimates reported a nationwide turnout of more than 130,000 people, including 46,000 in Paris, in demonstrations against draft legislation to introduce heightened security powers, including restricting the dissemniation of images of on-duty police officers, and in protest over police violence after shocking events this past week involving assaults by officers.

  • 'Non-essential' High Street businesses re-open in France

    France — Link

    One month after the second lockdown was imposed in France to contain the resurge in Covid-19 cases, non-essntial shops and businesses, except bars and restaurants, were allowed to re-open as of Saturday amid a slow but regular fall in recorded deaths and new infections nationwide.    

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