Organisers of this summer's Olympic and Paralympic Games said 'around' 2,500 air-conditioning units have finally been ordered for athletes' accomodation centres despite earlier pledges to employ more climate-friendly geothermal cooling systems.
An examining magistrate is to decide whether to follow the advice of French prosecutors that French filmmaker Benoît Jacquot, 77, should be placed under investigation for the separate rapes and sexual assaults of two actresses who filed complaints against him.
Roland Dumas, who after serving in the French Resistance went on to become a successful lawyer, later serving as French foreign minister under the presidency of François Mitterrand with whom he had close relations, who was embroiled in corruption and fraud cases and whose flamboyant lifestyle and latter political ambiguity caused controversy, has died at the age of 101.
As Britain heads to the polls for parliamentary elections on Thursday, when a leftwing government is expected to succeed 14 years of conservative rule, and while France anxiously awaits the results of final-round voting in its own parliamentary poll next Sunday, with the far-right expected to reach a relative or absolute majority, a cross-Channel vox pop report found voters on both sides expressing remarkably similar concerns.
The drag cabaret Chez Michou, which was founded by the late Michel Catty who opened the business in the French capital's Montmartre district 68 years ago where it attracted showbiz stars and a French president, has closed its doors over financial difficulties.
France was more than ever a nation divided on Monday, after the massive score of the Rassemblement National party in Sunday's first round of parliamentary elections raised the spectre of a possible far-right government emerging after next weekend's second round poll, and which would be the first to rule the country since the collaborationist Vichy regime of World War II.
There was a mixture of warnings and congratulations as heads of European governments and political parties reacted to the strong showing of France's far-right Rassemblement National party in the first round of parliamentary elections on Sunday.
French cinema directors Benoît Jacquot, 77, and Jacques Doillon, 80, were taken into police sutody on Monday for questioning over allegations of historical crimes of sexual assault and rape of girls, first prompted by a complaint filed in February by actress Judith Godrèche and which was followed by separate complaints filed by two other actresses.
A year ago unrest broke out after the teenager was shot dead at point-blank range by a police officer at a traffic check in a Paris suburb on June 27th 2023 .
