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No more ‘basket-case Britain’: Europe welcomes Starmer reset in UK-EU ties

PM’s promise to draw line under years of fractious relations greeted with plaudits and relief by European media

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Hundreds of France election candidates withdraw amid pressure over tactical approach to stopping far right – as it happened

According to Le Monde’s latest count this morning, 221 candidates have withdrawn from races since Sunday’s first round of elections

The Guardian - UK

Over 200 candidates withdraw before second round of voting – France election as it happened

Around 130 are members of left-wing New Popular Front with more than 80 from Macron camp

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Russia to block EU media outlets including Le Monde, El Pais, Der Spiegel

Russia said Tuesday it was blocking access to dozens of European media outlets, including nine French news websites, in response to the EU slapping broadcasting bans on several Russian outlets last month.

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Russia bans 81 EU media outlets in tit-for-tat move

Moscow responds to a broadcasting ban on four Russian outlets that the EU accused of spreading Kremlin propaganda.

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‘Impunity is growing’: French celebrities call for law to crack down on sexism and sexual violence

Writers, actors, journalists and politicians published petition in Le Monde after learning 94% of complaints were dismissed in 2022

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Choose France summit kicks off with big hopes for foreign investment

France rolls out the red carpet to some 180 business leaders on Monday at the annual international business summit aimed at wooing foreign investors. Buoyed up by recent data showing France remains the most attractive country in Europe, the presidency has promised record investments, though there is growing competition from…

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Man whose family drowned in Channel boat disaster sues French state for damages

Campaign groups for migrants' rights have revealed that an Ethiopian man whose wife and two children were among 27 people who drowned in 2021 when their boat capsized in the English Channel had filed a complaint for damages.

Radio France Internationale

Seek deals or seek damages: Publishers divided over AI copyright debate

French daily and website Le Monde has become the latest publisher to strike a deal with OpenAI, allowing the San Francisco company to use its journalists' work to train artificial intelligence systems. To deal with claims that AI firms have plagiarised content scraped from the internet in order to build…

France 24

Migrant Relatives Sue French State Over 2021 Channel Tragedy

The family of an Ethiopian man who was among 27 migrants who drowned in 2021 when their boat capsized in the Channel filed a complaint Friday suing the French state in the first such case over the disaster, two groups said.

International Business Times

OpenAI Partners With Le Monde And Prisa Media

OpenAI on Wednesday announced partnerships with French daily Le Monde and Spanish conglomerate Prisa Media, saying it intends to develop news-related uses of its ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool.

International Business Times

Chatgpt Users Gain Access To Le Monde, Prisa Media News

OpenAI partners with Le Monde and Prisa Media to provide users with reliable and diverse news content within the ChatGPT platform, enhancing the overall us...

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France to enshrine abortion rights

Emmanuel Macron is primed to deliver a world first. Final vote, largely a formality, is expected March 4

Salon

France Blames Russia's FSB For Star Of David Graffiti Campaign

France believes that Russia's security service FSB was behind a campaign in which Star of David graffiti were daubed on buildings in and around Paris last autumn, a French source said Friday.

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Rape inquiry opened after Judith Godrèche files complaint against director

French actor alleges arthouse film-maker Benoît Jacquot groomed her when she was 14 and he was 39

International Business Times

French Actor Godreche Files Rape Complaint Against Famed Director

French prosecutors said Wednesday they had opened an inquiry after actor Judith Godreche filed a complaint against film director Benoit Jacquot, accusing him of raping her in a relationship that began when she was 14 and he was 25 years her senior.

International Business Times

Monaco Royals Rocked By New Claims Over Offshore Assets

Claims by a former close confidant of Monaco's royal family that part of its fortune is placed in tax havens have rocked the affluent city state, in the latest scandal facing the palace under Prince Albert II. The new controversy erupted after French newspaper Le Monde last week published the…

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‘€600k to pay off her overdraft’: aide lifts lid on Monaco royals’ lavish spending

Sacked after 22 years as family’s principal asset manager, Claude Palmero has shared shocking details with French media

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Secret recordings and ‘dripping insinuations’: the bitter feud between French film star Alain Delon’s children

Now 88, the star leads a reclusive life and his children are in a legal battle over his treatment

Evening Standard

Paris names street after David Bowie on what would have been his 77th birthday

Rue David-Bowie sits between two modern office buildings, including the headquarters of news publications Le Monde and L'Obs

France 24

'Pushes us closer to the abyss': Former Azerbaijani oil executive to head COP29

Azerbaijan's ecology minister and former oil executive Mukhtar Babayev was on Friday appointed to lead the United Nations' annual climate talks in a move that has sparked concern among NGOs and environmentalists who voiced similar worries over last year’s COP28 chair Sultan Al Jaber, chief of the United Arab Emirates’…

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Macron's new health minister implicated in luxury gifts scandal

France's new health minister, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, on Friday confirmed she was among several pharmacists under investigation for allegedly accepting gifts from one of the country's top laboratories. Firmin Le Bodo was appointed after her predecessor resigned in protest at the government's contentious new immigration law.

Radio France Internationale

French health minister resigns over contentious immigration law

France's health minister has resigned over the adoption of a controversial immigration law backed by the far-right, a government spokesman said on Wednesday, while denying there was any rebellion within President Emmanuel Macron's cabinet.

France 24

French health minister quits as immigration law splits Macron’s ruling party

French President Emmanuel Macron faced cracks within his ruling alliance on Wednesday as Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau tendered his resignation in protest at a controversial immigration law that the far right's Marine Le Pen hailed as an "ideological victory" for her camp.

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‘He reflected the laughable complexity of the world’: Milan Kundera remembered by Florence Noiville

The literary editor recalls her contributor and friend, a deep political thinker, talented musician and mischievous dinner companion

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