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Visiting Paris, Obama laments lack of US climate leadership

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Former US president, who had a private meeting with President  Macron and also ex-head of state François Hollande, is on a lecture tour.

Actors rehearsing 'Jihad' play cause security scare in France

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Passenger alerted police as members of a touring comedy theatre group practised their lines on a train journey from Paris to Troyes.

How bold is Macron's first budget?

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Despite Macron's bold talk of 'transforming' France, some measures—notably on public spending—so far look tentative, claims The Economist.

Macron vows to make French the world's first language

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Speaking to students in Burkina Faso, French president said it would be 'the first language of Africa'  and 'perhaps of the world'.

Macron to propose military action against human traffickers

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In interview with FRANCE 24 the French president said he would be proposing military action to combat migrant slave trading.

French central bank okays closure of Le Pen accounts

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Head of far-right Front National accused banks of 'banking fatwa' after Société Générale and Crédit du Nord shut down her party's accounts.

France's Macron says he will not 'tell Africans what to do'

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Speaking in Burkina Faso, French president pledged to shed his country's colonial attitude and forge new relationship with continent.

French bank to cut jobs as costs rise

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Société Générale unveils 1.1 billion euros savings plan that will cut 900 jobs in its French retail bank and close 300 branches.

Macron to begin three-nation West Africa tour

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French President Emmanuel Macron leaves on Tuesday for visits to Burkina Faso, Ghana and Ivory Coast, officially with the aim of boosting cooperation on education, the digital economy and the environment, and ending with an EU-African-nation summit in Abidjan where migration will top the agenda.

French teacher given suspended sentence for affair with girl of 14

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A 31-year-old maths teacher who had a sexual relationship with a pupil aged 14 has been handed a suspended jail sentence and ordered to undergo counselling, just days after President Emmanuel Macron declared he was in favour of classifying an adult's sexual intercourse with a minor below the age of 15 as rape.