Milllions of people are expected in Paris this summer to follow the Olympic Games amid a significant rise in France in the numbers of cases of dengue fever, and an increasing presence of the tiger mosquito that spreads the disease.
For the third time in a week, French President Emmanuel Macron held a meeting on Monday evening of his government's defence and national security council to review the crisis in France's Pacific Ocean territory of New Caledonia, where normal activity has been severely disrupted by road blocks and rioting in protest over a planned reform of the electoral register which will dilute the political representation of the indigenous Kanak people.
A man died on Saturday after being shot while trying to pass through a roadblock in the north of the main island of France's Pacific Ocean territory of New Caledonia, where violence erupted last week amid high political tensions between Paris and the archipelago's indiginous Kanak people.
A new postage stamp issued by the French post office for international letters features a picture of a baguette which when scratched lets loose the smell of baked dough.
A 29-year-old Algerian man was shot dead by police early on Friday morning in the town of Rouen, northern France, after he threatened officers with a knife as they attempted to arrest him on suspicion of setting fire to a synagogue.
Guards held public protests at jails across France on Wednesday following the shooting dead of two of their colleagues, and the wounding of three others, during an attack on their van on Tuesday which freed prisoner Mohamed Amra.
Violent protests on France's Pacific Ocean territory of New Caledonia broke out over draft legislation, currently debated in the French parliament, that would allow people who have settled in the archipelago since ten years or more to be included on the voting register, and which the pro-independence movement says will weaken the political strength of the indigenous Kanak people.
A Paris court has rejected a defamation case brought by actress Charlotte Lewis against film director Roman Polanski over an interview he gave to weekly magazine Paris Match in which he said she was a liar for accusing him of raping her when she was 16.
Two guards were shot dead and another three wounded in an attack on a prison vehicle on a Normandy motorway which was carrying 30-year-old Mohamed Amra, who was serving a sentence for robbery and suspected of involvement in a fatal kidnapping, and who escaped along with the gunmen.
The French father of retired 78-year-old university professor François Grosjean was a double-agent at the service of the British during WWII, and Grosjean suspects his English mother, who deserted him and his sister in 1946, had in fact been an agent used by MI5 as a honeytrap, but the secret service agency refuses to release its files.
Amazon is to invest 1.2 billion euros in its activities in France, while Pfizer and AstroZeneca are to separately pledge multi-million-euro expansions of their businesses in the country, Emmanuel Macron's office announced on Sunday, ahead of a 'Choose France' conference next week when almost 200 foreign firms will be hosted at Versailles Palace.
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