A 29-year-old man was fatally shot overnight in the eastern French city of Dijon, the local prosecutor said on Sunday, adding that a gangland killing was suspected.The southern Chenove district where the killing occurred was known for drug trafficking, the prosecutor, Olivier Caracotch, said in a statement.“A dozen shell casings used by an automatic weapon” […]
French Riviera authorities said Sunday they are boosting security around electricity grid sites after an overnight fire in a substation that cut power to 45,000 people, and a massive blackout during the Cannes film festival blamed on sabotage.A blaze hit an electricity transformer in the western part of the city of Nice, knocking out power […]
The French parliament moved Wednesday to stop telemarketers making annoying, unsolicited phone calls, with measures due to come into force in just over a year.Under the legislation, passed in a senate vote, it will be up to a company to prove that a call made on their behalf to an individual’s telephone was done so […]
File photo: Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram (Picture credit: X/@durov) Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, claimed on Sunday that he rejected a direct request from French intelligence to block conservative voices in Romania ahead of the country’s presidential election runoff. In a series of explosive posts on his Telegram channel, Durov alleged that […]
Representative Image (AI) LANDERNEAU: A small town in western France has set a world record for the greatest number of smurf-costumed people gathered in the same place, according to organisers, who counted over 3,000 this weekend.Landerneau, population 16,000, on the far western tip of France’s Britanny region, had tried twice before to wrest the record […]
Kidnap attempts were made on the family members of a crypto executive at 8am in Paris. French cryptocurrency boss Pierre Noizat on Friday praised his “heroic” son-in-law and a neighbour wielding a fire extinguisher for preventing the kidnap attempt of his pregnant daughter and young grandson.This week’s attempted abduction was the latest attack on a […]
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou (AP) PARIS: French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou struck a defiant tone in parliament on Wednesday as he insisted during a tense hearing that he only knew of claims of sexual abuse at a Catholic school from media reports.The 73-year-old politician faced one of the most delicate moments of his five […]
A French mining company sues Niger after its director disappears and offices are raided (Photo: AP) French uranium mining company Orano has sued the government of Niger after the disappearance of its director and the raiding of its local offices, as military authorities in the west African country tighten their grip on foreign companies and […]
French President Emmanuel Macron (AP) French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that he was open to discussing the potential deployment of his country’s nuclear weapons elsewhere in Europe.The comments came in an interview with French broadcaster TF1 on Tuesday evening.Macron noted that the United States already stations nuclear-armed aircraft in Europe.“The Americans have the […]
French PM Francois Bayrou (ANI) PARIS: French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Wednesday faces one of the most delicate moments of his five months in office as he responds to questions from a parliamentary committee investigating claims of sexual abuse at a Catholic school.Bayrou has faced accusations from the opposition that as education minister in […]
