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PARIS, Aug 23, 2023 (AFP) – Temperatures in France hit an all-time high for late summer on Tuesday, the weather authority said, as the country continues to swelter under a punishing heatwave. The nationwide average temperature over 24 hours hit 27.1 degrees Celsius (81 Fahrenheit), Meteo France announced Wednesday — ahead of an expected peak in the August hot spell expected in the second half of the week. Such continuously high temperatures have never been […]
NÎMES, France, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – A 10-year-old boy has been shot dead in suspected drugs-related violence in the southern French town of Nimes, authorities said Tuesday, with Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin mourning an “immense tragedy.” The boy was travelling in a car with his uncle through the deprived Pissevin area of the city when they were targeted at around 1130 pm (2130 GMT) on Monday evening. Local prosecutor Cecile Gensac told reporters […]
LILLE, France, Aug 12, 2023 (AFP) – Six people were killed when a boat carrying migrants heading to Britain sank in the Channel early Saturday, French maritime officials said, as a search continued to find those still missing. A spokeswoman from the French coastal authority Premar said between five and 10 passengers were still missing, while 55 had been rescued. Three French ships, a helicopter and a plane have been mobilised to search the area […]
PARIS, Aug 12, 2023 (AFP) – A security alert Saturday prompted the evacuation of three floors of the Eiffel Tower in central Paris, France’s most emblematic symbol which drew 6.2 million visitors last year. SETE, the body which runs the site, said bomb disposal experts as well as police were scouring the area, including a restaurant located on one of the floors. “It’s a usual procedure in this kind of situation which however is rare,” […]
PARIS, Aug 5, 2023 (AFP) – Five people were injured on Saturday in an explosion at a residential building in the north of Paris, police and emergency services said. The blast recalled another in the French capital in June, when three people died in an explosion that caused a building to burst into flames and collapse in an area near the centre of the city popular with tourists. Saturday’s blast in the 18th Arrondissement was […]
PORTBOU, Spain, Aug 5, 2023 (AFP) – Firefighters said they evacuated more than 130 people as they fought Saturday to control a wildfire at Portbou on the Spanish border with France on the Mediterranean coast. Firefighters from Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia teamed up with French colleagues as the blaze ravaged some 435 hectares (1,100 acres) of land, with an estimated 2,500 hectares threatened. Local people were evacuated overnight from several villages as a precaution […]
By Daniel Lawler Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Artificial intelligence could help almost halve the workload of radiologists when it comes to searching routine scans for signs of breast cancer, a large Swedish study suggested on Wednesday. The interim results of the trial were hailed as promising, but the authors cautioned that more research was needed before AI can be used to screen for breast cancer on a wider scale. While increasingly convincing […]
BERLIN, July 28, 2023 (AFP) – While France and Spain grew in the second quarter, the German economy flatlined, adding to worries the traditional manufacturing powerhouse could become a drag on the eurozone economy. Germany’s gross domestic product (GDP) stagnated between April and June, while inflation remained high, according to data published by the federal statistics agency Destatis Friday. The growth figure was worse than expected by many observers, and left Germany facing the threat […]
CERGY-PONTOISE, France, July 8, 2023 (AFP) – Dozens of marches against police violence in France have been announced for Saturday after authorities banned a memorial rally, fearful of reigniting the recent unrest that engulfed the country. Seven years after Adama Traore, a young black man, died in police custody, his sister had planned to lead a commemorative march north of Paris in Persan and Beaumont-sur-Oise. However, with tensions still high following the police killing of […]
By Tiphaine LE LIBOUX and Stuart WILLIAMS Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — France’s mayors have called on members of the public and elected officials to gather at town halls across the country on Monday in a show of mass opposition to violent protests that have dragged on for nearly a week. The government has been battling nightly riots and looting ever since 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead by a police officer during a […]
NANTERRE, France, June 29, 2023 (AFP) – The policeman who killed a French teenager in a Paris suburb on Tuesday, sparking violent protests across the country, has apologised to the family while in custody, his lawyer said. “The first words he pronounced were to say sorry and the last words he said were to say sorry to the family,” Laurent-Franck Lienard told BFMTV late Thursday. “He is devastated, he doesn’t get up in the morning […]
PARIS, June 29, 2023 (AFP) – French police braced for more violent protests Thursday over the fatal shooting of a teen by a policeman that has left authorities scrambling to contain an escalating crisis. According to an internal security note, the coming nights are expected “to be the theatre of urban violence” with “actions targeted at the forces of order and the symbols of the state”, a police source said. One Paris suburb, Clamart, has […]
