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DOHA, Qatar (AFP) — State-owned Qatar Petroleum and French energy giant Total will formally launch a 25-year joint venture to develop the Al Shaheen oil field this week, the companies said Monday. The North Oil Company, to be launched on Tuesday, will be made up of a 70 percent stake from QP and a 30 percent stake from Total, which is taking over operations from Maersk Oil, according to a statement released by Qatar Petroleum. […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) – Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced on Thursday (July 6) that she will propose a bill to the French government concerning the reception and integration of migrants in France, while also asking for the creation of a support fund for local nongovernment organizations. Hidalgo said a dignified welcome to migrants by public authorities must be written in the law and that the refugee center in Paris’ La Chapelle district serve as a […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said he supported a two-state solution to end the Middle East conflict as he welcomed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the Elysee Palace Wednesday. Speaking publicly on the issue for the first time, Macron said any deal “must recognize the legitimate rights of the Palestinians to have an independent state, but also ensure Israel’s security.” “There is no viable alternative to a two-state solution,” he said, adding […]
by Fiachra Gibbons Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Japanese designer Yuima Nakazato claimed Wednesday that he has cracked a digital technique which could revolutionize fashion with mass made-to-measure clothes. “We can design every type and shape of garment to be a precise fit to the wearer’s figure,” he told AFP after showing his digitally created haute couture collection in Paris. The 31-year-old wunderkind has been working for six months on a new 3D clothes-making […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The cost of lighting up at a French sidewalk cafe may finally dissuade even the most ardent smoker, if Prime Minister Edouard Phillippe gets his way. With 80,000 tobacco-related deaths in France each year, “doing nothing is not an option,” Philippe said Tuesday, announcing a plan to raise the price of a packet of cigarettes to 10 euros ($11.3) from the current seven euros. Tobacco “is the leading cause of preventable […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – PARIS, France (AFP) – A 23-year-old man has been charged with plotting to assassinate President Emmanuel Macron at France’s Bastille Day parade, a judicial source said Monday. The self-described nationalist, who was arrested last Wednesday, told investigators he wanted to kill Macron at the July 14 national day parade in Paris, a source close to the investigation said. He said he also wanted to attack “Muslims, Jews, blacks, homosexuals,” the source […]
AVIGNON, France (Reuters) – Eight people were wounded in a shooting in front of a mosque in the southern French city of Avignon in an incident police consider to be a settling of scores rather than a militant attack, a source close to the investigation said on Monday (July 3). A local resident who witnessed the scene but did not want to disclose his name said that a car pulled up with four people in […]
MERS-LES-BAINS, France (Reuters) — Roughly 20 years after setting a record for the first world tour on roller skates, Frenchman Fabrice Gropaiz set off on a tour of France, this time on an electric skateboard, in preparation for his next around-the-world journey. Public-relations specialist Gropaiz became the first person to successfully rollerblade around the world when he arrived at Paris’ Arc du Triomphe on April 30, 1999, after completing 27,000 kilometers in 28 months. At […]
by Gregory Danel / Romain Fonsegrives Agence France Presse CRETEIL, France — A man drove his vehicle into barriers protecting a mosque in the Paris suburbs Thursday, forcing worshippers to dodge out of the way, police and officials said. Muslim community leaders described the incident, which injured no one, as an “attempted attack” and an “Islamophobic act.” It came nearly two weeks after a man rammed a van into worshippers outside a mosque in London, […]
CRETEIL, France (Reuters) – A man was arrested after he tried to drive a car into a crowd in front of a mosque in the Paris suburb of Creteil on Thursday (June 29), police said, adding that no one was injured. The man’s motives were unclear, and he had not succeeded in reaching the crowd because of barriers in front of the mosque, police said in a statement. An investigation, to be carried out by […]
by Tangi Quemener Agence France-Presse LE BOURGET, France (AFP) – Aeronautics giants are treating the idea of a flying car with caution, as such a project raises more questions than it answers, experts say — it’s a child’s dream, a millionaire’s toy. But is it really the next big thing in transport? At this year’s Paris Air Show, you had to search hard to find an aircraft that looked anything like an automobile: but one […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that France refuses to recognize Russia’s “annexation” of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea but that he hoped to make progress toward peace. Macron said after meeting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Paris that his approach to future talks was unambiguous: “France is committed to Ukraine’s sovereignty with its recognised borders,” he said. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 after a military intervention in eastern Ukraine. The new […]
