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EU countries green-light Mercosur trade deal despite France's opposition

France, Jan. 9 -- Aqualified majority of member states - at least 15 countries representing 65 percent of the EU's population - backed the deal at a meeting in Brussels on Friday. France, Ireland, Au... Read More


Violent Storm Goretti brings wind, snow and disruption to Europe

France, Jan. 9 -- Some 380,000 households were left without electricity on Friday, grid operator Enedis said, as the storm swept across the north of the country. Most outages were reported in Normand... Read More


France hit hard as Storm Goretti sweeps across northern Europe

France, Jan. 9 -- In France, around 380,000 households have been left without electricity, according to grid operator Enedis this Friday, as Storm Goretti swept across the north of the country. The v... Read More


Why Greenland's melting ice cap threatens humanity, and could serve Trump

France, Jan. 8 -- Greenland is vast, and highly coveted. Covering some 2 million square kilometres, it is almost four times the size of France. Above all, it is the second-largest body of ice on Eart... Read More


Russia frees French researcher Laurent Vinatier in prisoner swap

France, Jan. 8 -- Russia's FSB security service said Vinatier, 49, had been pardoned by President Vladimir Putin, according to the RIA news agency. The announcement came after France freed Russian ba... Read More


DRC remembers fatal plane crash in Kinshasa city centre, 30 years on

France, Jan. 8 -- The Antonov An-32B cargo plane was flying under the name of Air Africa, operated by Moscow Airways and leased to the private airline Scibe Airlift. Dangerously overweight, according... Read More


Macron accuses US of 'breaking free from international rules'

France, Jan. 8 -- Macron delivered his annual speech to French ambassadors at the Elysee Palace as European powers are scrambling to come up with a coordinated response to US assertive foreign policy ... Read More


Russia says foreign troops sent to Ukraine would be 'legitimate targets'

France, Jan. 8 -- A Russian Foreign Ministry statement said "militaristic declarations" by a coalition of pro-Ukraine Western governments were becoming increasingly dangerous. Russia was responding f... Read More


Angry French farmers defy ban and block Paris streets over Mercosur deal

France, Jan. 8 -- Around 100 tractors were positioned at several symbolic locations in the capital by 8am local time, including near the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, the Interior Ministry sai... Read More


UK armed forces helped US mission to seize Russian tanker, MoD says

France, Jan. 8 -- The US Coast Guard stopped the tanker - which was being shadowed by a Russian submarine - on Wednesday, after pursuing it for more than two weeks across the Atlantic as part of Washi... Read More