While the Paralympic village is praised by athletes for its thoughtful design details, the French capital in contrast largely remains an obstacle course for disabled people to navigate.
François Hollande, Emmanuel Macron's socialist predecessor, has said that the French president's refusal to appoint the candidate for prime minister from the leftwing 'popular front' alliance, which garnered the most seats in parliamentary elections in June, is an 'institutional failure'.
French President Emmanuel Macron began a two-day visit to Serbia on Thursday, when he and his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic are expected to ink a multi-billion contract for the supply of Dassault Rafale fighter jets, along with a raft of other commercial deals.
Amid mounting political deadlock arising from a hung parliament, the radical-left France Insoumise party and the Parti communiste français, members of the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) coalition alongside the socialists and Greens, have called for demonstrations in September in protest at President Emmanuel Macron's refusal to appoint the NFP's candidate for prime minister.
After president rejects the Nouveau Front Populaire's candidate Lucie Castets, more talks are to take place on Tuesday as Macron continues to seek a prime minister who can command cross-party support
TV stations TF1 and BFM say the French investigation is focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.
An explosion was caused by two cars which were set alight outside the Beth Yaacov synagogue in the resort town of La Grande-Motte, near Montpellier in the south of France.
