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Digital euro wins key EU backing as lawmakers approve draft rules

France, June 25 -- The European Central Bank (ECB) secured key parliamentary backing on Tuesday for the launch of the digital euro - an electronic currency aimed at making the eurozone less reliant on... Read More


Latest Niamey airport attack tests Niger junta as terror groups 'adapt'

France, June 25 -- The latest assault on Niamey International Airport claimed the lives of 11 soldiers and two civilians, following an attack in January when terrorists arrived on motorbikes. This ti... Read More


France bakes under heatwave as warnings extend into July

France, June 24 -- The national weather service Meteo-France placed 58 departments on red alert and another 31 on orange alert. Four northern departments - Aisne, Somme, Nord and Pas-de-Calais - were ... Read More


Portugal delays handover of French mother accused of abandoning children

France, June 24 -- The regional prosecutor's office in Evora, southern Portugal, said on Tuesday that the Court of Appeal had issued a "partial refusal" to execute a European arrest warrant issued by ... Read More


US releases experimental Ebola drug for DR Congo outbreak trials

France, June 24 -- The US Department of Health and Human Services confirmed it will provide doses of MBP134, an antibody drug developed by California-based Mapp Biopharmaceutical, for compassionate us... Read More


Seven European countries urge 'immediate halt' to Sudan violence

France, June 24 -- Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Norway issued a joint statement on Tuesday saying the situation had reached a critical moment in the city, which remain... Read More


French government begins disciplinary action over child abuse case failings

France, June 23 -- French Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin on Monday said an administrative inquiry would be launched against the prosecutor of the southern city of Auch (Gers) over the handling of co... Read More


Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch enters Paris's Pantheon

France, June 23 -- Bloch - who was tortured by the Gestapo and executed in 1944 - will become the first historian inducted into the monument under the Fifth Republic. The Elysee Palace described him a... Read More


Schools closed as France's heatwave threatens to break records

France, June 22 -- At least 845 schools will be closed, French Education Minister Edouard Geffray said on Sunday, while around 1,800 will cut classes short. Most of those affected are in the 49 depar... Read More


'Poison in your coffee' report sounds alarm over widespread pesticide use

France, June 22 -- The report's authors say the biggest concern is not what ends up in consumers' cups, but the health and environmental damage linked to intensive coffee farming. "Poison in Your Cof... Read More