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French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp
‘Bakery scent’ added via microcapsules to postage stamp celebrating ‘jewel of French culture’
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The Case Against Charles Darwin
How the investigation into a grisly murder shocked 19th-century France and framed the scientist as an accomplice.
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France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’
Coalition of civil society groups says Paris should return harsh reparations imposed on Caribbean state two hundred years ago
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Plundered and corrupted for 200 years, Haiti was doomed to end in anarchy | Kenan Malik
Successive foreign governments plunged it into unpayable debt and left its citizens in penury
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Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs
The referendum comes as the city aims to reduce emissions by targeting wealthy drivers in large, polluting cars
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Patch notes: fixed issue that made iPhone 12 illegal in France
iOS 17.1 includes a France-only fix for iPhone 12 to meet electromagnetic emissions standards.
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France grants police power to spy on citizens through phones
VPN services and other security tools won't be able to protect people from this kind of state-surveillance. What's next for France's justice reform bill?
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Macron accused of authoritarianism after threat to cut off social media
Élysée insists French president not advocating general blackout as ministers say rioters using platforms to organise violence
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Fatal police shooting of teenager triggers protests and arrests across France
The killing of a 17-year-old boy, captured on video, shocked the country and stirred up long-simmering tensions between young people and police in disadvantaged neighborhoods around France.
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Only VIPs can drink alcohol in Paris 2024 venues
VIPs can quaff champagne to their hearts' delight while watching the Paris Olympics, but the average fan will have to make do with soft drinks and water after organizers decided not to seek an exemption to a law prohibiting the sale of alcohol in stadiums.
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Paris to ban single-use plastic at 2024 Games
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Friday the city planned to ban single-use plastic when it holds the 2024 Olympic Games as part of efforts to tackle a global plastic pollution crisis. "We have decided to make the Olympic Games the first major major event without single-use plastic," Hidalgo told a press conference at a session of the International Forum of Mayors against Plastic Pollution.
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France bans short-haul flights in effort to fight climate change
Air travel between Paris and regional hubs such as Nantes, Lyon and Bordeaux will now be banned.
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France is fighting to save your iPhone from an early death
Every time a new iPhone comes out, a team of technicians in the French city of Toulouse start to pull it apart. In the three years they’ve been doing this, they’ve found a device that’s gradually transforming into a fortress. Today’s iPhones are packed with parts that cannot be repaired or replaced by anyone other than an expensive Apple-accredited repair shop. And France doesn’t like that one bit.
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Climate change: How can Paris adapt to 50°C heat waves?
A fact-finding mission makes 85 recommendations to prevent the French capital from becoming uninhabitable for part of the year.
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Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters
Paris voted overwhelmingly Sunday to banish for-hire electric scooters from the streets of the French capital, delivering a blow to operators and a victory for road safety campaigners.
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France braces for another day of mayhem and violence
Talks between the government and trade unions remain at a deadlock.
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France to ban TikTok on civil servants’ work phones
France will ban the use of Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok on the work phones of civil servants, Civil Service Minister Stanislas Guerini said on his Twitter account.
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France bans TikTok, WhatsApp, Netflix from state employees' phones
The French government on Friday banned the installation and use of "recreational" applications including the Chinese social network TikTok and the American streaming platform Netflix on the work phones…
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China and France prepare to launch satellite to hunt for gamma-ray bursts
France is set to send a pair of advanced science instruments to China in preparation for launch of a joint space observatory. The Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a collaboration forged in 2014 between the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES).
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Meteorite Crater Discovered in the Vineyard of a Winery
Our planet has been bombarded by celestial bodies and meteorites since the first moment of its formation. While some of these meteorites disappear while still in the atmosphere, some can reach the earth and shape geographical landforms. For example, some gulfs were formed in this way. In fact, considering the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, it can even be said that some meteorites had an impact on biological evolution.
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