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Saturday's protests were called for the sixth weekend in a row to denounce a new "health pass" system announced by President Emmanuel Macron that they see as unfairly restricting the rights of the unvaccinated.

Equipped with antennas, around 20 specialist volunteers are on the lookout for the creatures with black and yellow-patterned carapaces still in the area in southern France, home to 241 protected species. 

Staff at the hospital in Taaone, Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, have been forced to install two dozen beds in the entry hall to the establishment.

A black market for fraudulent health passes in France has sprung up on social media platform Snapchat - despite the risk of jail sentences.

Didier Raoult, who promoted hydroxychloroquine treatment, may not be able to continue his research as he has reached retirement age. 

Sixty Covid-19 deaths have been recorded in hospitals in Guadeloupe since August 9 out of a total of 357 since the beginning of the pandemic and incidence rate has shot up to 1,912 cases per 100,000 population.

More than 1,100 firefighters have been battling the flames and thousands of tourists and locals were evacuated to safer areas.

‘They announced they would respect the rights gained in Afghanistan over the past 20 years. [Now] they need to demonstrate it,’ Jean-Yves Le Drian said. 

The French president has attracted criticism for saying country must ‘protect itself from a wave of migrants’.

The evacuation took place  around the villages of Grimaud and La Môle, near Saint Tropez.