France's economy minister said his government would 'work closely with our American friends on a universal tax on digital activities' ahead of a G7 summit in Biarritz in late August, adding that French President Emmanuel Macron had held a lengthy conversation with his US counterpart Donald Trump after the latter had slammed Macron's 'foolishness' over the tax and threatened retaliatory tariffs on French wine imports.
Stalingrad Connection, named after a Paris metro station where homeless migrants once set up a makeshift camp for shelter, broadcasts in five languages to keep asylum seekers in contact with each other, to report on their experiences and to provide practical information.
Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, regarded as one of Latin America’s most prominent artists in the second half of the 20th century, and who pioneered kinetic art in which perceived movement is one of its key effects, has died at his home in Paris, aged 95.
The extraordinary discovery of a two-meter long femur thought to have belonged to a sauropod, a 40- to 50-tonne herbivorous dinosaur with a long neck and tail, a species widespread in the late Jurassic era of over 140 million years ago, was made this week at the site of Angeac-Charente, near Cognac in south-west France.
In a vitriolic message posted on Twitter, US President Donald Trump slammed a new tax to be levied by France on sales in the country by multinational digital tech firms like Google and Apple, announcing he will take "substantial reciprocal action on Macron's foolishness" and hinting this would be a raising of tariffs on French wine imports.
Franky Zapata, a 40-year-old French military reservist who has developed a one-person, jet-powered hoverboard failed in his attempt to be the first to fly on such a machine from France's northern coast to England after he ended up in the water during a mid-Channel refuelling stop.
A temperature of 42.6°C was registered in Paris on Thursday, beating a previous record high of 40.4°C in 1947, as most of France bore the brunt of a massive heatwave blanketing western Europe this week and which is due to begin diminishing on Friday.
The eponymous womens' clothing brand created by the late French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel, and which first found success with its casual, striped knitware in the 1960s, has been placed in liquidation after no buyer was found for the debt-burdened firm.
French agriculture minister Didier Guillaume has warned newly appointed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that in the event of a hard Brexit there must be no refusal of access to Britain's waters for France's fishing industry.
A collision on Wednesday between two British-registered light aircraft above the French Alps close to the border with Italy left the two occupants of one of the planes dead while the pilot of the second was reported to have been injured.
With temperatures of more than 40°C, the towns of Bordeaux, Rennes and Châteauroux on Wednesday recorded their hottest day since records began, as France swelters under a vast heatwave driven from the south, while the temperature in Paris on Thursday is forecast to beat the capital's 1947 all-time high of 40.4°C.
The prefecture for the Paris region together with the local water supply company have dismissed as 'fake news' rumours circulating on social media that drinking water in the French capital is contaminated by dangerous levels of the radioactive isotope tritium.
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