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France delays launch of $118b plan for virus-stricken economy

22 Aug 2020

The French government said on Saturday that it will unveil a week later than originally planned a 100-billion-euro ($118 billion) plan to nurse its coronavirus-stricken economy back to health. Businesses...

16-year-old Sudanese boy washes up on French beach after drowning trying to reach UK

19 Aug 2020

A 16-year-old Sudanese boy has drowned in the English Channel while trying to reach the UK. French authorities announced the death after his body was washed up on a...

Dozens hurt as shooting rumour sparks panic on French Riviera

11 Aug 2020

Dozens of people were treated in hospital for minor injuries overnight after false rumours of a shooting unleashed panic on the main promenade of the French Riviera town of...

Ferro ousts Kontaveit to win Palermo Open title

10 Aug 2020

France's Fiona Ferro shocked fourth-seed Estonian Anett Kontaveit to win the Palermo Ladies Open, the first post-coronavirus tennis tournament on Sunday. The 53rd-ranked Ferro came through 6-2, 7-5 in...

Eye candy: More than 50,000 pink flamingos mass in France

08 Aug 2020

Behold a treat for the eyes! Tens of thousands of pink flamingos have amassed in the wetlands of southern France along with their offspring still lacking flamboyant plumage. The...

Egypt opens field hospital in Beirut; Russia to send 5 planeloads of aid; France sends rescuers

05 Aug 2020

International aid in the form of emergency workers and medical personnel is heading to Lebanon a day after a massive explosion devastated Beirut’s port. Egypt has opened a field...

France sinks deeper into recession as GDP falls 14 per cent in Q2

31 Jul 2020

France's economy shrank by nearly 14% in the second quarter, when the country was in coronavirus lockdown. It was the third consecutive quarter of negative growth in a worsening...

Police clear migrant camp outside Paris at high coronavirus risk

29 Jul 2020

French police on Wednesday evacuated some 1,500 migrants from a camp north of Paris where crowded living conditions and a lack of water and sanitation exposed them to a...

VIDEO: First 5 Rafale fighters arriving in New Delhi on Wednesday

27 Jul 2020

While India and China remain locked in a military face-off along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, France has dispatched the first five Rafale fighter aircraft which...

French FM Jean-Yves Le Drian visits crisis-hit Lebanon

23 Jul 2020

France's top diplomat was on a two-day visit to Lebanon on Thursday in the first such trip in recent months by a high-ranking foreign politician to the crisis-hit country...

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