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French football boss sorry for 'clumsy' comments about Zidane

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French football federation president Noël Le Graët had said that he "wouldn't even have taken his call" if former French star Zinedine Zidane turned manager had been in touch about running the national team. 

Macron presses ahead with pension reform as discontent grows

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Prime minister Élisabeth Borne is to detail on Tuesday plans to make the French work longer, most likely by raising the retirement age to 64 or 65 from 62 currently.

Dismay in French Caribbean as Paris court dismisses pesticide case

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Judges in Paris considering a case involving use of banned pesticide chlordecone in Martinique and Guadeloupe ruled that it’s too hard to determine who’s to blame for acts committed so long ago. 

Macron to overhaul France's struggling health care system

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French president Emmanuel Macron has announced an overhaul of France’s struggling health system, including new funding methods for doctors and hospitals, more hiring and other organizational changes.

Minister unveils sweeping plans to overhaul France's justice system

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The recruitment of judges, simplifying the penal procedure, modernising civil law and the crisis in French prisons are just some of the contentious topics covered in justice minister Éric Dupond-Moretti's planned reforms.

Prosecutors call for France’s former spy chief to stand trial

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Bernard Squarcini and ten others await magistrates’ decision on hearing charges including influence peddling and forgery.

Ukraine set to get French scout ‘tanks’

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Ukraine is getting AMX-10RC armored vehicles from French stocks; the six-wheel AMX-10RC with its 105-millimeter gun looks like a tank, but without the tracks.

Iran warns France over ‘insulting’ ayatollah cartoons

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The satirical weekly published dozens of caricatures depicting Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei being stoned by naked women or hung by the hair of unveiled women.

France’s bakers to get tax leeway to offset soaring energy bills

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Many bakers producing France's famous baguettes and croissants say they risk going under after energy and crop prices have surged in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Next day postal delivery goes digital in France

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Anyone wanting to send a simple letter will now be invited to write directly on the La Poste website for their document to then be printed and delivered the next day.