While France's agriculture minister attempted to reassure the public that depleting butter stocks and rising pastry prices, caused by lower milk production and increased demand, could soon be ended by retaileers and suppliers agreeing to a price readjustment, one man from butter-producing heartland Brittany has put his buttered baguette up for auction online.
A 21-year-old man has died after falling from the roof of a moving metro train in Paris, apparently trying to avoid colliding with a bridge, in what police suspect was a 'train surfing' stunt.
A fall of 68,500 registered unemployed in September compared to August, leaving the official total number of jobless at 3,475,600, was the biggest monthly decrease registered since 1996.
French President Emmanuel Macron, hosting an official visit to Paris by his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, said on Tuesday that rights abuses in the Middle East country were discussed in joint talks but that he he understood the “context” of the fight against violent guerrilla groups in Egypt, which Amnesty International says is 'facing its worst human rights crisis in recent history'.
The French public prosecutor's office in the southern city of Toulouseis to decide on whether the parents of a baby boy are legally entitled to name him Jihad, a phonetic spelling from the Arabic meaning "struggle" and which has become a common term adopted by Islamic fundamentalists engaged in terrorist attacks, which have claimed more than 230 lives in France over the past two years.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's first official visit to France since the election this year of Emmanuel Macron is clouded by demands from NGOs that Paris should place human rights abuses at the fore of the agenda of discussions expected to centre on economic deals and counter-terrorism strategy.
A public health decree designed to help reduce hearing problems linked to loud music at clubs, concerts or festivals by lowering maximum sustained sound level and limiting the volume of the deep basslines found in house, techno or drum’n’bass has met with loud protest from music events professionals.
After the mass displacement last year of thousands from the notorious makeshift 'jungle' camp near the French Channel port of Calais, where for years migrants gathered while hoping for a clandestine passage to the UK, smaller numbers have begun returning to the zone where people-smuggling gangs are again closing in.
Emmanuel Macron's Labrador-Griffon relieved himself in an ornamental fireplace during a filmed meeting between the French president and ministers at the Elysée Palace.
Minister Marlene Schiappa says scandal has led women to denounce harassment at work and in public places, not just in the corridors of power.
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