Alexis Kohler, chief of staff of the French presidential office, the Élysée Palace, and a long-serving aide to President Emmanuel Macron, has been placed under investigation for 'unlawful taking of interest' over his undisclosed family and professional ties to an Italian-Swiss shipping company when working for the French state holdings agency and as a senior official on Macron's team at the finance ministry.
A company in Burgundy which makes insect-based protein for pet food has been given approval to produce mealworm-based protein for human consumption, prompting the building of what it says will be the largest insect farm in the world.
French justice minister Éric Dupond-Moretti, 61, has been sent for trial by a special court dedicated to cases of wrongdoing by serving members of government over his opening of investigations into several anti-corruption magistrates with whom he had clashed as a lawyer.
A nationwide day of action called by one of France's major cross-trades unions, the CGT, in support of pay rises and against President Emmanuel Macron's announced plan to raise the retirement age on full benefits from 62 to 65, drew a turnout of 250,000 marchers according to organisers, and around half of that total according to the interior ministry.
The senate’s delegation for women’s rights and gender equality on Wednesday presented the conclusions of its six-month inquiry into the French porn industry, which it said 'massively perpetrated violence' in the making of films, and denounced the wide and increasing access of minors to pornographic content.
French foreign minister Catherine Colonna on Tuesday made her third visit to Ukraine since taking up her post in May, holding talks in Kyiv with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba and with Ukraine's top prosecutor, Andriy Kostin.
The visit, planned for December, will 'underscore the deep and enduring relationship between the United States and France, our oldest ally', said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Footage has emerged of a crashed, freight-carrying Boeing 737, chartered by France’s postal services, which ran into difficulties while landing amid heavy storms overnight on Saturday at Montpellier, southern France, when it left the runway and ended nose-first in a nearby lake.
France's CGT trades union has called for a day of action on Thursday is support of pay increases to ease the cost of living crisis, and against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
TotalEnergies and QatarEnergy will collaborate on the North Field South project, a section of the world's largest single gas field nin a deal that could boost gas supplies to Europe from the Gulf state within four years.
