PM Jean Castex said a new nationwide lockdown was not on the agenda, but said French citizens needed to be in a state of heightened alert to make sure they contain the spread of the virus while vaccines are rolled out.
The ecologist mayor of Lyon, one of France’s most famously gastronomic cities, has kicked up a storm of protest and debate by taking meat off the menu at school canteens.
The 72-year-old actor is said to have been placed under formal investigation indicted on December 16th 2020 for rape and sexual assault, which he allegedly committed in the summer of 2018.
In face of a surge in cases of coronavirus infections in south-east France, which are well above the national average, parts of the French Riviera, including the city of Nice and the town of Cannes, are to be subject to weekend lockdowns at least over the next fortnight,
In a video released on Friday, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, who as 'Daft Punk' brought the French underground house scene into the international charts with hits like 'One More Time', 'Da Funk' and 'Around The Worlddresse'd, announced in their iconic robot costume a farewell in the desert before one of them self-destructed.
The fast-rising number of coronavirus infections recorded in the Riviera city, three times the average of that recorded across France, has prompted the authorities to plan for a localised weekend lockdown and stricter curfew measures.
The four-masted, 75-metre, multi-millon-dollar luxury yacht Phocéa, once a prized asset of shamed French tycoon Bernard Tapie, has sunk off the Malaysian holiday island of Langkawi.
A Sudanese man has been arrested after the manager of a centre which houses asylum seekers in the town of Pau, south-west France, was stabbed to death on Friday morning.
