More than 2,000 children are sleeping rough on the streets of France due to a lack of emergency shelter, new figures show, and aid groups are demanding the French government take urgent action.
French Prime Minister François Bayrou, whose minority government already faced almost certain defeat of its draft budget legislation in October, which includes vast public spending cuts, has called for a confidence vote in the country's hung parliament on September 8th which is mathematically impossible for him to win, and which would force his departure.
The French foreign affairs ministry has summoned the US ambassador to France, Charles Kushner, the Jewish father-in-law of US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka, to complain about his open letter to French President Emmanuel Macron published in The Wall Street Journal alleging a 'lack of sufficient action by your government' to confront anti-Semitism.
The Italian ambassador to France was on Friday summoned to a meeting at the French foreign affairs ministry to be told that Paris considered a comment by Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, in which he mockingly dismissed Emmanuel Macron's suggestion that European troops cound be sent to Ukraine in the case of a peace agreement with Russia, to be 'unacceptable'.
A police investigation has been launched after several cars belonging to Orthodox Jewish tourists - including a group from London - staying in the French Alpine resort of Chatel, close to the Swiss border, were spray-painted with the slogan 'Free Palestine'.
Emmanuel Macron has responded angrily to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent charge that the French president's intention to formally recognise the existence of a Palestinian state at next month’s UN general assembly has fuelled a rise in anti-Semitism in France.
Police in Paris are questioning a man held on suspicion of murder after the discovery of the corpses of four men floating in the River Seine, three of which were in an advanced state of decomposition, at a spot just outside the French capital.
Prosecutors in Nice are investigating the death of a 46-year-old man, Raphaël Graven, during a live video published on the Kick platform, part of a long-running online show in which he was humiliated and abused, the existence of which was first revealed by Mediapart in December last year.
An online petition launched by French art historian Didier Rykner has drawn more than 40,000 signatures in protest at the decision to loan to Britain for an exibition the famous 70-metre-long Bayeux Tapestry that tells the story of the 1066 Norman conquest of England, citing its fragile condition.
The regularity of heatwaves in Paris over recent years, including two this summer, city officlas believe temperatures could reach 50° Celsius in future events, with modelling suggesting a catastrohic domino effect that would bring vital services to a halt, and have begun planning for the worst.
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