•Elon Musk France summoned billionaire Elon Musk to a “voluntary interview” as cybercrime authorities today searched the French offices of his social media network X, the Paris public prosecutor’s office said. The operation, which involves EU police agency Europol, is part of an investigation opened in January 2025 into whether X’s algorithm w...
•Infant formula and France President Emmanuel Macron France plans to impose stricter limits on the acceptable level of a toxin called cereulide in infant formula after potentially contaminated products were recalled in over 60 countries. The infant formula industry has been rocked in recent weeks by several firms recalling batches that could b...
Some of the winter’s coldest weather so far hit travel in Britain, France, and the Netherlands yesterday, closing roads, grounding flights, and forcing train cancellations, including on Eurostar, just days after a power outage caused major disruption. Eurostar, which links the UK to the European mainland, told passengers travelling between Lon...
•Disposable plastics cups The French government today postponed a ban on plastic throwaway cups by four years to 2030 because of difficulties finding alternatives. The ban was meant to start on January 1, reports AFP. But the ministry for ecological transition said that results from a recent review into the “technical feasibility of eliminatin...
•Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye Senegal has “decided to suspend” all extraditions to France, Dakar’s justice minister said, accusing Paris of refusing to hand over two Senegalese citizens to the West African country. The row comes after the French courts postponed a decision last month on whether to return a Senegalese press b...
France helped the authorities in Benin thwart a coup attempt at the weekend, an aide to President Emmanuel Macron said today, revealing a French role in a regional effort that foiled the latest bid to stage a putsch in West Africa. Macron led a “coordination effort” by speaking with key regional leaders, the aide, asking […]
•People gather to take part in a march in tribute to Mehdi Kessaci yesterday Thousands of people gathered in Marseille yesterday to honour the brother of an anti-drug activist murdered in France’s second largest city whose death sparked nationwide calls to confront drug crime. Demonstrators chanted “Justice for Mehdi” before observing a minute...
•People gather in front of a makeshift memorial at the Place de la Republique in Paris during the anniversary today The bells of Notre Dame rang out today as Paris marked 10 years since France’s worst-ever peacetime attack, honouring the 130 people killed in a night of shootings and suicide bombings that scarred the country. […]
•Blue capsules on conveyor at modern pharmaceutical factory The federal government has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the European Union (EU) and France under the Global Gateway’s Manufacturing and Access to Vaccines, Medicines and Health Technologies (MAV+) Initiative. The agreement is meant to advance Nigeria’s pharmaceutical ...
•Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy France’s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy left home today to head to jail after being found guilty of seeking to acquire Libyan funding for his 2007 presidential run. He walked out of his home hand-in-hand with his singer wife, Carla Bruni, and left in a car escorted by police on motorbikes, reports [&helli...
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