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Real Madrid to face Liverpool, PSG face Barcelona in Champions League draw

The draw for the league phase of the UEFA Champions League was made in Monaco on Friday with PSG handed a tough defence.

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40 skippers leave France to embark on gruelling 'Everest of the Seas'

Defending champion Yannick Bestaven led a flotilla of 40 yachts into the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday as the 10th edition of the solo, non-stop round-the-world Vendée Globe race got under way.

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Cannes film festival hopes for ‘no controversies’ as wars, scandals rage

The film industry is on edge as the Israel-Palestine conflict and Me Too accusations cast shadows on the red carpet.

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Ex-French President Sarkozy loses appeal against graft conviction

Paris court upholds sentence but spares Sarkozy prison time as the still influential leader fights other criminal cases.

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8 explosive Celtic vs Rangers moments from riots to Dallas coin shame and court battles

As Glasgow's big two prepare to face off again this weekend, Record Sport looks back at the fixture's more unsavoury moments.

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A scorched southwestern France braces itself for fires to come

As France frets about an extended drought and prospects for more wildfires in another long summer, one blaze that erupted eight months ago in the southwest of the country still smoulders away underground.

Reuters

France tears down beach apartment block as rising sea bites

When it was built at the end of the 1960s on one of France's most glorious Atlantic coastlines, the beach was over 200 metres (656 ft) away. Today, the hulk of the 80-flat Le Signal apartment block perches precariously on a dune just metres from the water and local authorities…

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Thousands take to the streets of Paris to protest soaring prices

Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest against soaring prices as weeks of strikes for higher wages at oil refineries spurred demands for a general strike.

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Macron says he wants to make it easier to build renewable energy projects in France

President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said he will cut red tape to halve the time it takes in France to get renewable projects off the ground, stressing that was crucial at a time when Europe faces a serious energy crunch amid the war in Ukraine.

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France's river Loire sets new lows as drought dries up its tributaries

France's river Loire, famous for the hundreds of castles gracing its shores, is a shallow river at the best of times, but this year even its flat-bottom tourist barges can barely navigate waters greatly reduced by a record drought.

Reuters

Removed from warzone, a Ukrainian circus troupe delights in France

Inside a packed circus tent in central France's Loire valley, Ukrainian acrobat Anastasiia Mazur delights the crowd with her balletic routine from a suspended ring.

Reuters

In a small French village, Le Pen threatens Macron's re-election

At a bar in Gouzon, a village in central France, a few locals gathered on Monday to read news of the first round of voting in the presidential election, which saw incumbent Emmanuel Macron through to face far-right challenger Marine Le Pen in a run-off.

Reuters

In Chablis vineyards, fear grows that destructive frosts may become the norm

For French winemaker Thomas Ventoura, the spring frost that hit the Chablis vineyards of northeast Burgundy over the weekend has a bitter taste of déjà-vu.

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