Cafes in the French capital Paris must close from Tuesday. The authorities want to use this measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Restaurants don’t have to close, but they will have to deal with stricter regulations. The measure will remain in effect for approximately two weeks and […]
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Dozens of French schools have had to close shortly after the start of the school year due to corona outbreaks. Last week there were 28 institutions, but according to Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer, that number is already 81. “We have about 1,200 new corona cases among school students compared […]
France sends the navy ship the Lafayette with two Rafale-type fighter jets to the eastern Mediterranean. The Ministry of Defense reported that this is part of plans to expand the military presence in that area. Tensions between Greece and Turkey are mounting there as a result of Turkish projects […]
France has been shocked by the brutal attack on a bus driver. He refused to take passengers in southern Bayonne who did not wear the mandatory masks and who did not have tickets. The driver, who is in his fifties, is said to have been repeatedly beaten and ended […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Jean Castex as the successor to retired Prime Minister Édouard Philippe. Insiders already tipped the former official as a possible successor to Philippe, who resigned with his government on Friday. 55-year-old Castex was recently in charge of easing the French measures against the […]
Iran says it has asked France for help in the investigation into the accidental downing of the Ukrainian passenger plane on January 8. Iranian researchers want to have the black boxes read in France. The plane with 176 people on board, including 57 Canadians, was shot down with two […]
In several metro trains in the Paris region, it is too busy for travellers to keep enough distance from each other. In the trainsets on the busiest lines, people are relatively close to each other, such as on line 13, French media report. Many Parisians fear that they will […]
The French government is under fire for the planned relaxation of the lockdown. Mayors and transport companies question the feasibility of the plans. The hard-hit France, where some 25,000 corona patients have died, wants to phase out the measures to prevent the virus from spreading. Many children are allowed […]
Several children in France are suffering from heart infections that may be caused by the new coronavirus. The French health minister announced this on Wednesday, who emphasized that there is no evidence yet. The inflammations are taken “very seriously”, says Olivier Véran. About fifteen French children show the symptoms. […]
In the northern suburbs of Paris, violent clashes occurred between police and residents last night while enforcing strict lockdown measures. Residents burned waste, set cars on fire and threw fireworks at the police. It responded with rubber bullets and tear gas in the suburbs of Villeneuve-la-Garenne and Aulnay-sous-Bois, witnesses […]
