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Despite the government requisitioning key refinery staff to get petrol flowing again, nearly a third of gas stations still have supply problems.

French energy giant strongly denies claims it exploited a gas field used to manufacture kerosene that was used by Russian planes in their bombings in Ukraine.

French president said Paris would not trigger a nuclear response if Russia launched such a strike ‘in Ukraine or in the region.'

Government ministers meanwhile call on TotalEnergies to raise salaries in bid to end dispute. 

Technical adjustments were necessary as the single pipeline between the two countries was originally intended only to deliver gas from Germany to France. 

The president said that France was also negotiating to send six Caesar mobile artillery units to Ukraine.

Despite a deal, the refinery strikes continue, which prime minister Élisabeth Borne says the government ‘cannot accept.’

Industrial action has disrupted refining and delivery, with long queues forming at fuel stations in the Paris region as drivers try to fill up before more pumps run dry. 

Vehicle owners have faced increasingly long waits to fill their tanks after 10 days of strikes by workers demanding higher wages in response to soaring prices.

The families of the 228 people killed in 2009 when their storm-tossed Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris plunged into the Atlantic finally have a chance at justice.