Hannah Wright
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14 Dec
Putin has warned the US against further aggravating Kim Jong-un and North Korea
Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that the use of force against North Korea would have “catastrophic” consequences at an annual end-of-year press conference.
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13 Dec
Macron’s second summit in two days sees Saudi Arabia and the UAE pledge to fight Islamic extremism
Fresh from yesterday’s One Planet climate change summit yesterday France’s Emmanuel Macron moved right on to another today — a summit in Paris on accelerating efforts to set up a West African force to battle Islamist militants.
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13 Dec
One Planet Summit: Macron warns “we’re losing” as world leaders make pledges
French president Emmanuel Macron warned yesterday that “we’re losing” the fight against climate change. Macron was hosting the One Planet summit in Paris, where he was joined by the president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim and the secretary-general of the United Nations, António Guterres.
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13 Dec
France is banning mobile phones in schools from September — how will this work?
France is going to ban mobile phones in schools from September 2018 — a measure that appeared in president Emmanuel Macron’s campaign in the summer and will be put in place to “protect our students from the distraction of screens and phones” according to minister of national education, Jean-Michel Blanquer.
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12 Dec
Tree huggers in the Steel City — Protesters are fighting to save this English city’s historic trees
Violence has broken out on the streets of the UK’s fourth largest city Sheffield — known as the Steel City for the amount of steel it once produced — as protesters fight to save the city’s famous trees.
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11 Dec
Who is Laurent Wauquiez, the French Republican party’s new leader of the right?
Laurent Wauquiez has been elected as the new leader of France’s main conservative party, La République, yesterday, receiving 74.6 percent of votes.
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8 Dec
A French halal supermarket has been forced to close because it doesn’t sell alcohol or pork
This week a French court ruled a halal supermarket in Paris had to close because it did not sell alcohol or pork.
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8 Dec
The fickle French are back in love with Emmanuel Macron
French president Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating is above 50 percent for the first time since he was elected in July, according to a poll released this week by Ifop and Fiducial for Paris Match and Sud Radio.
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7 Dec
The world mourns the French Elvis — the biggest rock star you’ve never heard of
France is left in a state of mourning after the announcement of the death of national Rock’n’Roll legend, Johnny Hallyday.
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5 Dec
France could struggle to enforce its new law against catcalling
In France catcalling could soon be banned, but parts of the new law against sexual harassment are proving difficult to establish.
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29 Nov
Hyperstress is sweeping France — what’s causing such high levels of anxiety?
Almost a quarter — 24 percent — of those employed in France are in a state of so-called hyperstress, defined as stress levels that endanger health, according to a study conducted by occupational health consulting firm Stimulus.
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28 Nov
A woolly mammoth skeleton is expected to fetch $550,000 next month in France
The world’s largest privately-owned woolly mammoth skeleton has gone on display in Lyon, France ahead of being auctioned on 16 December.
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27 Nov
Buy Nothing Day is the antidote to Black Friday — what’s it all about?
Amongst the chaos and noise from Black Friday — the US pre-Christmas shopping day that’s been exported around the world — millions of people opted to instead buy absolutely nothing.
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24 Nov
Activists seek end to violence against women with 16-day campaign
Campaigners and governments all over the world have united today to call for an end to violence against women.
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24 Nov
European Commission backs proposals to ban smoking in French films
A proposal to ban smoking with French films, made by senator Nadine Grelet-Certenais last week, has been supported by the European Commission.
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22 Nov
Amazon’s succeeding in spreading Black Friday across Europe
Black Friday — falling on 24 November this year — is gaining momentum in France.
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17 Nov
Some have suggested France change its age of consent to 13 – Why?
Nicole Belloubet, France’s justice minister, angered feminist groups this week when he said that a legal age of 13 for sexual consent would be “worth considering”.
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15 Nov
Airbnb jumps before it’s pushed in Paris as the city looks to tighten regulation
Accommodation rental platform Airbnb is introducing a limit on short-term rentals of 120 nights per year within the centre of Paris.
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15 Nov
More French police are committing suicide than ever before — why?
France’s Interior Minister, Gerard Collomb, has raised the alarm after eight members of the police and the gendarmerie, France’s military police service, committed suicide last week.
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15 Nov
COP23: Here’s what we’ve learnt over the climate change conference
It’s been a busy and exciting 23rd United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change — better known as COP23.
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13 Nov
Dior’s Sidney Toledano will collect the Pilier D’Or award tonight — here’s why
Dior chief executive and president Sidney Toledano will receive the Pilier D’Or award at the Trophée des Arts Gala in New York tonight.
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10 Nov
Fawcett Society: thousands of UK women go #OutOfOffice for Equal Pay Day 2017
Today, 10 November, in the UK is Equal Pay Day — the day women in theory stop earning relative to men according to The Fawcett Society.
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9 Nov
COP23: France has been named Fossil of the Day at the UN climate change summit
France has been named Fossil of the Day at the 23rd United Nations climate change talks — known as COP23 — in Bonn, Germany after backtracking on promises to reduce its reliance on nuclear energy.
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7 Nov
Louvre Abu Dhabi: a museum city in the desert, 10 years in the making
Ten years after the initial announcement of the opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Arab world’s first universal museum is set to open this Saturday.
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7 Nov
French counter terrorism operation arrests ten in France and Switzerland
Ten people in France and Switzerland have been arrested today in a counter-terrorism operation just days after a new French Counter Terrorism law came into effect.
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6 Nov
Gypsy CEO leads operation escargot to slow traffic in Paris to a snail’s pace
People travelling in and out of Paris are having to deal with around 500 kilometres of traffic jams today, 200 kilometers more than a typical Monday.
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3 Nov
The French winter truce began this week — it means the country’s low income families can breathe easier
Thousands of French families woke up this week and gave a sigh of relief — the so-called winter truce (trêve hivernale) has begun.
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3 Nov
The UN’s holding a climate change summit on Monday in Germany — here’s what you need to know
Some 25,000 people are set to attend the 23rd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — better known as COP23 — on Monday in Bonn, Germany.
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1 Nov
Protesters across Europe are taking the #MeToo message to the streets
The #metoo testimonials that flooded social media in recent weeks have made their leap from the virtual world to reality across Europe.
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31 Oct
Thousands of people are going on a treasure hunt in France
Any day now, thousands of people in Toulouse, France will wake up to an email that could lead them to €10,000.