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☆ French Riots Test Macron’s Loyalty to Police
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Stacy Meichtry | Noemie Bisserbe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ France Riots Rage for Fourth Night
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Noemie Bisserbe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ France Riots Rage for Fourth Night, Upend Macron’s Germany Trip
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Noemie Bisserbe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Version française: 4e nuit de violences avant les obsèques de Nahel
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Le ministère de l'Intérieur a annoncé que 1.311 personnes avaient été interpelées, un chiffre en forte hausse par rapport aux 875 de la nuit précédente, mais souligné sur Twitter que "les violences commises cette nuit ont été d'une plus faible intensité en comparaison à la nuit précédente". "Nous appartenons à la même communauté de foi", a ajouté une femme. Reuters a également pu constater que les accès au cimetière seraient bloqués pendant l'inhumation de Nahel. Jeudi, une marche blanche en la mémoire du jeune homme avait réuni plusieurs milliers de personnes. Reportage Gilles Guillaume, avec Noemie Olive et Tassilo Hummel à Nanterre et Marc Leras à MarseilleOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ To Fight Stickier Inflation, Governments Take Aim at Corporate Profits
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Paul Hannon | Noemie Bisserbe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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National police said on Thursday night that officers faced new incidents in Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse and Lille, including fires and fireworks. The local prosecutor said the officer involved had been put under formal investigation over voluntary homicide and would be held in prison in preventive detention. Under France's legal system, being placed under formal investigation is akin to being charged in Anglo-Saxon jurisdictions. He said the officer had aimed down towards the driver's leg but was bumped, causing him to shoot towards his chest. The unrest has revived memories of riots in 2005 that convulsed France for three weeks and forced then-president Jacques Chirac to declare a state of emergency.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Pascal Prache, Mercedes, Nahel, Gonzalo Fuentes, Laurent, Franck Lienard, didn't, Lienard, Prache, Macron, Jacques Chirac, Benoit Van Overstraeten, Layli, Noemie Olive, Leigh Thomas, Michel Rose, Richard Lough, John Stonestreet, Frank Jack Daniel, Alexandra Hudson, Daniel Wallis, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Nike, National, Lille, Le Vieux Port, REUTERS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: France, Paris suburb NANTERRE, Algerian, Nanterre, Paris, Rivoli, Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse, France's, Le Vieux, Provence, Paris suburb, Clichy, Blanc Mesnil

☆ U.S. Moves to Rejoin Unesco to Counter China’s Growing Sway
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Noemie Bisserbe | Stacy Meichtry | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ French Prosecutors Charge Syrian in Knife Attack on Children
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Noemie Bisserbe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Children Wounded in Knife Attack at Park in French Alps
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Noemie Bisserbe | Stacy Meichtry | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ French Protesters Seek Fresh Momentum in Fight Against Macron’s Pension Overhaul
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Noemie Bisserbe | Stacy Meichtry | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ France's last surviving D-Day commando joins beach landing anniversary
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Gautier, 100, presented a student marine commando with his green beret at a passing out parade at Colleville-Montgomery, near where a 17-year-old Gautier had landed on Sword Beach in a hail of enemy fire. Gautier was one of 177 French green berets under the command of Captain Philippe Kieffer who took part in the Normandy landings. In 2019, Gautier recounted on the occasion of the 75th D-Day anniversary how French troops had been the first to wade chest-deep onto Sword Beach. "Your honour," Gautier recalled British Colonel Robert Dawson telling the French green berets. Reporting by Noemie Olive; Writing by Richard Lough, editing by Ed OsmondOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ For its 2024 Olympics, Paris wants the Seine river swimmable
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Manuel Ausloos | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

PARIS, June 5 (Reuters) - On a sunny spring day, Dan Angelescu was testing the water quality of Paris' Seine river by the bridge Alexander III - a scenic view for next year's swimming marathon and triathlon Olympic trials. Angelescu has been working for the city since 2017 on its longtime project to make the Seine swimmable. The 2024 Games are a good opportunity to fast-track it in order to host some sporting events in the famous river - as was done at the first Paris Olympics of 1900. Stephane Vidalie, who lives in Neuilly-Plaisance in the east of Paris, was happy to no longer send wastewater into the Marne river, a tributary that joins the Seine just outside Paris. Bastien Coignon, a member of a kayak club in Sevres, west of Paris, said he had been waiting for this.

Persons: Dan Angelescu, Alexander III, Angelescu, Pierre Rabadan, Rabadan, Manuel Ausloos, Stephane Vidalie, Colombe Brossel, Bastien Coignon, Clotaire Achi, Juliette Jabkhiro, Alex Richardson Organizations: Paris Olympics, Olympic, Games, REUTERS, Manuel Ausloos SYSTEM, Thomson Locations: Paris, Seine, Austerlitz, Sevres, France, Neuilly, Plaisance, Marne, Olive

☆ Racy Novel by France’s Finance Minister has Even the French Blushing
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Noemie Bisserbe | Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ An Autobiographical Novel Reclaims a Jewish History in Occupied France
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Julie Orringer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

She asks her mother to tell her all she knows, and her mother, who has by now researched this history extensively, complies. But the few clues available lead only to further questions, and Anne and her mother take the search into their own hands. Each new piece of information they unearth carries with it a freight of pain, a reminder of what was lost. But Anne, having chosen this search, persists: “I’m your daughter, Maman,” she tells her mother. “You’re the one who taught me how to do research, to gather information, to make even the smallest scrap of paper speak.

☆ "We're being hounded" - French transgender sprinter decries Olympics ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Noemie Olive | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] French sprinter Halba Diouf, 21, a transgender woman athlete who dreams to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Games, attends a practice session on an athletics track in Aix-en-Provence, France May 3, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo FuentesAIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, May 9 (Reuters) - French sprinter Halba Diouf feels she is being marginalised and hounded after her dream of participating at next year's Paris Olympics was shattered when World Athletics (WA) banned transgender women from elite female competitions. "The only safeguard transgender women have is their right to live as they wish and we are being refused that, we are being hounded... In March WA's council cut the maximum amount of plasma testosterone for DSD athletes in half to 2.5 nanomoles per litre from five. The WA rules also stated the level must be maintained for at least 24 months before DSD athletes can compete in female competitions.

[1/6] French runner Barbara Humbert, 83, long-distance world record winner in her category who dreams to run the Olympic Marathon For All at the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Games, poses during a daily practice session in Villiers-Adam near Paris, France April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo FuentesEAUBONNE, France, May 2 (Reuters) - At 83, Barbara Humbert dreams of taking part in next year's Paris Olympic Games 'Marathon For All', a race opening the Olympic route to non-elite competitors for the first time - and she's got the pedigree to beat some runners half her age. Not your typical great-grandmother, the German-born Frenchwoman runs 50 km (30 miles) a week, has competed in dozens of marathons, and has the medals to show for it. "It's extraordinary to have the Olympics in Paris," said Humbert at her home in Eaubonne, an hour's drive north of the capital. They remind Barbara of all the races she's been part of, from Athens to Boston and beyond, amounting to some 8,000 km run, according to her own calculations.

☆ Protesters storm Paris Euronext building in anger over pension law
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Noemie Olive | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Benoit TessierPARIS, April 20 (Reuters) - A group of protesters briefly invaded offices of stockmarket operator Euronext in Paris' La Defense business district on Thursday, saying big companies must pay up to finance pensions, as part of wider protests against a rise in the retirement age. Waving union flags, the group of a few hundred protesters occupied Euronext's lobby, engulfed in red smoke from flares, and chanted words popular with pension protesters: "We are here, we are here, even if Macron does not want it we are here." At the weekend, Macron signed into law the rise in the retirement age which means citizens must work two years longer, to 64, before receiving their state pension. "We'll continue until the (pension law's) withdrawal," protesters shouted in La Defense's central square, standing by a banner that read: "No to the pension reform". Macron himself faced protests on Thursday during his second public outing since signing the bill into law.

☆ 'French Spiderman' climbs Paris skyscraper as protest against pension law
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/6] French "Spiderman" Alain Robert climbs the Tour Alto skyscraper at the financial and business district of La Defense, naming his feat "The People", in Courbevoie near Paris, France, April 19, 2023. REUTERS/Sarah MeyssonnierPARIS, April 19 (Reuters) - A free climber known as the "French Spiderman" scaled a 38-storey skyscraper in Paris on Wednesday to demonstrate his support for protesters angry about a pension law that will delay the age at which people can retire in France. Alain Robert, 60, climbs without a harness, using only his bare hands and a pair of climbing shoes. "I'm here to show my support for those who oppose the pension reform," he told Reuters before starting his ascent of the 150-metre (492 foot) skyscrapper in Paris' La Defense business district. Under the reform, the French retirement age will gradually rise to 64 from 62.

☆ Macron Wins Approval to Raise France’s Retirement Age
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Noemie Bisserbe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension-overhaul plans have left his parliamentary ranks in disarray. PARIS—President Emmanuel Macron ’s plan to raise the country’s retirement age cleared the final hurdle to becoming law with the approval of France’s Constitutional Council, providing relief to his embattled government after a monthslong battle with unions and millions of protesters. The court’s nine judges ruled that Mr. Macron’s government didn’t violate the constitution in passing the legislation in March.

☆ France’s Macron Seeks to Calm Trans-Atlantic Uproar Over Taiwan Remarks
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Noemie Bisserbe | Stacy Meichtry | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ France’s Macron Renews Call for a Sovereign Europe Less Reliant on Foreign Powers
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Noemie Bisserbe | Laurence Norman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Macron Urges China’s Xi to Help Negotiate End to War in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Noemie Bisserbe | Austin Ramzy | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

French President Emmanuel Macron sought to enlist Chinese leader Xi Jinping in efforts to persuade Russia to stop its war in Ukraine, inviting a U.S. rival that sees itself as an increasingly vital part of global diplomacy to play a more prominent role in ending the conflict. Mr. Macron made the appeal during a meeting with Mr. Xi on Thursday, part of a three-day trip that French officials say is designed to limit Chinese support for Russia.

PARIS—French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to press Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a trip to China this week to limit support for Russia in its war against Ukraine, according to French officials, amid growing Western concerns over Beijing’s deepening economic and political ties with Moscow. Mr. Macron is scheduled to arrive in China on Wednesday, a day before his meeting with Mr. Xi in a bid to dissuade him from throwing his full weight behind Russia’s war campaign, French officials said. China is Russia’s most significant partner and an increasingly important economic lifeline as it faces Western sanctions.

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