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IF DINNER PARTIES were permitted in locked-down France, it is not hard to guess what would set le tout Paris aflutter. For months bankers, politicians and other pre-covid canapé-scoffers have taken sides in a corporate battle royale pitting two century-old firms against each other. Veolia, a water- and waste-management utility,…

KABUL: Afghanistan’s First Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Monday demanded the execution of Taliban prisoners as violence surges in the country in spite of US-sponsored talks between the government and the militants. Under mounting US pressure and following months of delay, Kabul released last summer thousands of Taliban prisoners from its…

PARIS (AP) — French protesters and human rights activists demonstrated outside the National Assembly in Paris on Tuesday in opposition to the state visit of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi even though he wasn’t inside. El-Sissi’s visit is in its second and final day. The protesters, who carried placards reading “Egypt,…

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.A team in Paris has made the most precise measurement yet of the fine-structure constant, killing hopes for a new force of nature.Computational Physics Inc.As fundamental constants go, the speed of light, c, enjoys all the fame, yet c’s numerical value says nothing about nature;…

Loading... Paris Saint-Germain have agreed a deal to release Spanish striker Jese Rodriguez. — Reuters file picPARIS, Dec 6 — Paris Saint-Germain have agreed a deal to release Spanish striker Jese Rodriguez, the French champions said today. Now 27, Jese signed from Real Madrid in 2016 but never managed to…

President Emmanuel Macron hosts Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi from Sunday for a three-day state visit with France facing calls from activists that Egypt should not be "indulged" despite the close alliance between Cairo and Paris. Egypt and France have enjoyed an increasingly close relationship under the secular rule of…

Police officers have come under fire for alleged racism and gratuitous violence within their ranks The focus of Saturday’s marches was a security bill that includes an article aimed at outlawing the publication of images of police officers Topic |   France E3B1C256-BFCB-4CEF-88A6-1DCCD7666635 Published: 1:34am, 6 Dec, 2020 Updated: 10:35pm, 6 Dec,…

In Brief Interior minister says inspections are part of ‘massive action against separatism’French police have launched a series of raids on mosques and prayer halls across the country as part of what Emmanuel Macron has called a crackdown on “political Islam”. The drastic action follows a series of terror attacks…

PARIS - Former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, a key architect of European integration who sought to liberalise the economy and social attitudes after years of conservative Gaullist rule, died on Wednesday. He was 94. France's leader from 1974 to 1981, Giscard presided over a modernisation of French society, allowing…