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After hours of preparation and the intervention of about fifty people, Alain Panabière, who weighs nearly 250 kg, was evacuated Tuesday by air from his apartment in Perpignan where he had been living on the ground for months.more

The former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, who is credited with transforming postwar France and encouraging European integration, has died aged 94 from complications linked to Covid-19.more

President Emmanuel Macron announced "restrictions and deterrents" against French people wanting to ski abroad on Christmas Day. Prime Minister Jean Castex announced a 7-day quarantine for people returning from foreign resorts.more

The French Supreme Health Authority (HAS) issued today recommendations on vaccination against Covid-19. In the first place, residents of nursing homes and the elderly with comorbidities are to be vaccinated, as well as health care workers.more

The United Kingdom and France have signed a new agreement to try to stop the undocumented movement of people across the Channel, upping patrols and technology to close off a dangerous route refugees and migrants use in hopes of reaching the UK on small boats.more

A return to some form of normal life will be possible in the fall of 2021, provided that the vaccination program against Covid-19 works, French epidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet told BFM TV. The condition, however, is to vaccinate 80-90 percent. population.more

French President Emmanuel Macron has laid out a three-stage ending of the country's lockdown, beginning on Saturday with the reopening on non-essential shops.more

In Paris and in the suburbs of the capital, despite the lockdown in force, illegal, secret events for several hundred people are organized - according to journalistic investigations of the French media.more

France has ordered the culling of one thousand minks after lab analyses detected a mutated version of the coronavirus in one farm.more

One in ten French claims to have been a victim of incest, according to a study by the Ipsos institute, reported by the daily Le Figaro.more

40 percent of French people consider vaccinating against Covid-19; this is 5 percentage points less than in October - according to the Elabe Institute poll.more

France is still “far from deconfinement,” government spokesman Gabriel Attal warned Wednesday, citing an adaptation of rules on 1 December rather than a loosening, in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic.more

Fans will not be allowed to return to French sports stadiums this year, and when they do it will be with strict crowd limits depending on a venue's size, the French presidency said Tuesday.more

France has surpassed two million cases of Covid-19, Director General of Health Jérôme Salomon announced at a press briefing on Tuesday as infections across Europe hit more than 15 million.more

Reuters reports that France’s farm ministry confirmed the case on 16 November. Europe has been contending with multiple bird flu outbreaks in recent weeks.more

France's Prime Minister Jean Castex said the county's lockdown will continue unchanged for at least the next 15 days - and cafés, bars and gyms are likely to remain closed for longer.more

Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb urged its followers Monday to kill anyone insulting the Prophet Mohammed and threatened French President Emmanuel Macron over his remarks on Islam.more

The second wave of the coronavirus epidemic that Europe is currently battling will likely not be the last. We may be afraid of a few more waves at the end of winter or in spring, wrote the French Scientific Council in the report.more

A suspect has been arrested after the shooting of a Greek Orthodox priest outside his church in the French city of Lyon.more

The man who killed three people in a knife attack in a church in Nice on France’s Côte D’Azur on Thursday has been named as Brahim Aouissaoui, a 21-year-old Tunisian migrant.more

Police today shot and killed an armed man who threatened passersby and attacked a police patrol in Avignon in the south of France, police said. According to witnesses, the attacker shouted "Allahu Akbar".more

At least two people were killed and several injured in today's cutthroat attack near Notre Dame Basilica in Nice in the south-east of France, police said. Local sources say that one of the victims was decapitated.more

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a second national lockdown until at least the end of November.more

Due to the development of the epidemic and the convening of the Defense Council on possible further restrictions, supermarkets in France stock up and make larger orders for selected groups of products in the event of another lockdown, writes the daily "Le Figaro".more

Public transport in Paris and the capital region of Ile de France will be reduced from Wednesday due to the curfew, carriers RATP, SNCF and Optile announced yesterday.more