French leader's visit comes as European nations jostle for influence in the resource-rich region, where Russia, China, Turkey and Europe all have economic interests.
France has taken the commission of the European Union's before the European Court of Justice over the use of English as the sole language in recruitment exams by the bloc's Personnel Selection Office.
Russian billionaire Alexei Kuzmichev, co-founder of finance consortium Alfa Group and who is the target of sanctions by the EU which says he has 'well established ties' with Russia's president Vladimir Putin, was arrested at his French Riviera home in Saint-Tropez in connection with suspected money laundering, tax evasion and violation of international sanctions.
A woman dressed in a full veil who had reportedly threatened to blow up a Paris underground train on Tuesday morning was shot and seriously wounded by police who later found she was in fact not carrying explosives.
French President Emmanuel Macron, inaugurating his project of a centre documenting and celebrating the French language, dismissed what he called the 'fashionable trend' gaining ground in the country for writing words in a form that includes the masculine and feminine, such as habitant.e instead of either 'habitant' or 'habitante' or iel in place of 'il' and 'elle', and which the Academie Française has called a 'mortal peril'.
Seven people were in police custody on Monday over disturbances before a football match, subsequently cancelled, between League 1 sides Marseille and Lyon, notably an attack with beer bottles and stones on a bus carrying Lyon coach Fabio Grosso, whose facial injuries required urgent medical attention, including 12 stitches.
President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that the process of enshrining the right to abortion in France's constitution was underway, promising on social media that 'in 2024, the right of women to choose abortion will become irreversible'.
In a part of south-west France which was swept by massive forest fires last year, the maritime pines still standing are now threatened by an outbreak of stenographer bark beetles, a brown, airborne insect measuring half-a-centimetre which spreads after attacking pines damaged by fire or storm.
Vincent Reynouard, 54, a French secondary school teacher who fled to Scotland after he was convicted in his native country on two charges relating to Holocaust denial, has said he will appeal a Sheriff's order for his extradition.
Rédoine Faïd, a 51-year-old French armed robber whose dramatic jailbreaks earned him the nickname of 'getaway king', has been handed a 14-year prison sentence by a Paris court for his 2018 escape by helicopter from a prison where he was already serving 25 years for a botched heist in which a policewoman was killed.
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