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A third of France's population was under a new partial lockdown Saturday to stop the spread of Covid-19, as some European countries resumed AstraZeneca vaccinations following an all-clear from EU regulators and the WHO. Advertising Read more The pandemic is still speeding up worldwide, with the number of new global coronavirus infections rising by 14 percent over the last week compared to...

Issued on: 20/03/2021 - 14:32 The Paris metropolitan area is one of 16 French regions that went intoapartial lockdown Saturday that will last for at least a month. The new restrictions seek to limit trips outside the home except for work or essential activities. FRANCE 24 takes a look at the new lockdown rules. Advertising Read more The new partial lockdown attempts to stem the spread o...

Issued on: 24/07/2020 - 17:33 France will require on-the-spot Covid-19 tests for travellers coming from 16 countries where the virus is c...

Issued on: 18/05/2020 - 07:53Modified: 18/05/2020 - 07:55 Around a hundred people are believed to have been infected by the coronavirus in new...

Issued on: 28/01/2020 - 19:14Modified: 28/01/2020 - 19:14 France will send a plane this week to start evacuating its citizens from Wuhan, the ...

Issued on: 20/01/2020 - 09:44Modified: 20/01/2020 - 09:44 Thousands of people opposed to France’s plans to reform the law on assisted reproduc...

In her new book Consent (Le consentement), French writer and publisher Vanessa Springora says that she became the sexual “prey” of author Gabriel Matzneff at age 14. The book has ...

Issued on: 22/12/2019 - 08:51Modified: 22/12/2019 - 08:51 Eight West African countries Saturday agreed to change the name of their common curr...

Issued on: 29/11/2019 - 12:21Modified: 29/11/2019 - 12:25 When you think of the most quintessentially French food, chances are delicious chees...

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Date created : 20/02/2019 - 17:41Latest update : 20/02/2019 - 20:48 A group of French lawmakers proposed a bill on Monday that would make anti...

Date created : 09/01/2019 - 13:22 Belgian authorities have arrested another suspect in coection with the Paris terror attacks of November 2015, charging him with participating in the activities of ...

Thousands of people, including relatives, friends and disciples, flocked to Lyon cathedral on Friday, some standing in the rain for hours, to bid a final farewell to the city’s favourite son, Paul Bocuse. Paul Bocuse, who died last Saturday aged 91, established a global network of admirers throughout his extended career, providing inspiration to a multitude of chefs for his nouvelle cuisine style. But despite his global fame, the "pope of French cuisine" always remained accessible to the people of Lyon, who tued out in droves on Friday for his funeral service. “Monsieur Paul, you loved your city and it loved you,” said Interior Minister Gérard Collomb, a longtime may...

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Jean Rochefort, the French actor who played a key role in one of the most cursed movie sagas in Hollywood history, has died aged 87, his daughter told AFP Monday. Rochefort was a French national treasure when he was cast to play Don Quixote in 1998 by the former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam, who dreamed of bringing Cervantes' "unfilmable" novel to the big screen. But things soon b...

A young French reporter who has been held on terror charges in Turkey for the last seven weeks is set to be freed Friday, his lawyers said. The news came a day after French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had pressed Turkish leaders on a visit to Ankara to free 27-year-old joualism student, Loup Bureau. Bureau's lawyers said "we have the satisfaction to aounce that he is being...