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French Socialist reignites row over 'non-white' meetings

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Audrey Pulvar, a former television anchor, says that whites should "keep quiet" if allowed into a meeting of people of colour discussing racism.

France Covid patient numbers rise, pressure for new lockdown grows

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France had 4,791  intensive care unit patients being treated for COVID-19, up from 4,766 on Friday, health ministry data showed.

France was 'blind' to Rwanda genocide, French report says

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The report also said Paris bore "heavy and overwhelming responsibilities" over the 1994 Rwanda genocide, but it found no evidence of French complicity.

France limits outdoor gatherings to six as Covid infections rise

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Health minister Olivier Véran also added three more départements, including the area around Lyon, to 16 already placed under tougher mobility restrictions.

‘The end of naivety’: Macron backs EU vaccine export curbs

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French president said the EU had been late in ramping up vaccine production and jabs, but was catching up and would become the world’s biggest producer of vaccines this summer.

Macron admits EU leaders didn't believe jabs would be ready so soon

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French president says Europe's sluggish rollout of vaccines againt Covid 'should be a lesson for all of us'.

French former snowboard world champion dies in avalanche

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Julie Pomagalski was swept away while skiing off-piste in a group of four in the Swiss Alps.

France's culture minister in hospital with Covid

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Roselyne Bachelot, 74, announced last weekend that she tested positive and her hospitalization was made public on Wednesday.

Macron says Turkey plans to try to sway French elections

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Ties between French leader and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan have been tense over issues ranging from religion to energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean.

Facebook hit by French lawsuit over hate speech

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Paris-based campaign group Reporters Without Borders says the website breaks its own terms by failing to protect users against hate speech.