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04  décembre     06h04
Australia and France sign military access agreement as post-Aukus tensions ease
Daniel Hurst and Sarah Basford Canales    Reciprocal access to military bases and training facilities to be granted in clear break from diplomatic rupture over failed submarine dealFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails,free app or daily news podcastAustralia and France have promised...
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The slow race to save Brittany’s rare Quimper snails from a tramway - one gastropod at a time
Kim Willsher in Brest    In Brest, this protected species, found only in Brittany and the Basque Country, is being painstakingly moved to a new home before their habitat is destroyedOn a drizzly November evening, ecologists in Brest, Brittany, are rooting through the damp undergrowth flanking an unmarked and unlit track...
03  décembre     20h56
Alleged killer of tourist in Paris attack had pledged allegiance to Islamic State
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris    Suspect detained after German Filipino man killed and two one British and one French injured near Eiffel TowerA year old man suspected of killing a German Filipino tourist and wounding two others near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Saturday night had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in...
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Einstein on the Beach with goats? No, thanks Letters
Guardian Staff    John Coldwell on his first ever walkout from a performance. Plus letters from Ian Garner, David Riley and Tim Edwards on leaving theatres at the interval or even earlierTwo days before reading Zing Tsjeng’s article What made me love theatre even more Leaving a bad show at the interval, ...
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Historian Marie Fauroux’s life and work should be celebrated as her brother’s is Letters
Guardian Staff    Prof David Bates on the relative importance of the historian and her sibling Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieReading the obituary of the distinguished French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie November made me think about his sister, Marie Fauroux, who died in . Educated at the École Nationale des...
02  décembre     07h00
As antisemitism soars, for many Jews in France nowhere feels safe Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor    Macron is calling for unity, but the Israel Hamas war has sparked a rise in hate crime that threatens a fragile social peaceFrench Jews were only partly reassured when more than , people, including the prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, and two former presidents, turned out to demonstrate in...
01  décembre     18h48
Parts of Anselm Kiefer sculpture stolen from French warehouse
Agence France-Presse in Bobigny    Lead books stolen from artwork, representing loss of more than m, according to prosecutorThieves have stolen parts of a lead sculpture by the German contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer from a warehouse in France, representing a loss of more than m , , a prosecutor said on Friday.Kiefer,...
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World’s biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor launched in Japan
Agence France-Presse in Tokyo    Joint project with EU involves more than scientists and engineers and more than companiesThe world’s biggest operational experimental nuclear fusion reactor a technology in its infancy but billed by some as the answer to humanity’s future energy needs has been inaugurated in Naka, Japan...
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Why are younger voters flocking to the far right in parts of Europe?
Jon Henley and Pjotr Sauer in Volendam    Many young people are not xenophobic but their lives are precarious, say experts, amid crises in housing and healthcareLunching on a tuna sandwich in the central market of Volendam, a picturesque fishing port north of Amsterdam, Gerald, , was lucid about his choice in last week’s Dutch election....
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Forty years on, can legacy of pioneering anti-racism march help a divided France?
Angelique Chrisafis in Lyon    After recovering from being shot by police in , Toumi Djaïdja led a protest historians say must be written into the nation’s narrativeWhen Toumi Djaïdja, a year old youth worker, was shot by police as he helped a teenager who had been bitten by a dog, he did not know it would change the...
30  novembre     21h50
French-Israeli woman seen in Hamas hostage video is freed
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris    Mia Schem was abducted from music festival on October; lawyer Amit Soussana has also been releasedIsrael Hamas war live updatesMia Schem, a French Israeli woman who was abducted from the Supernova music festival in Israel and shown in the first Hamas video of a hostage speaking from captivity,...
29  novembre     21h23
Ex-wife of French serial killer says he raped then murdered British student
Kim Willsher in Paris    Monique Olivier, , on trial for complicity in Michel Fourniret’s murder of Briton Joanna Parrish and two French victimsThe former wife of French serial killer Michel Fourniret told police he beat British student Joanna Parrish unconscious before raping and strangling her and throwing her body in...
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I’m an outspoken Black woman in France - so a powerful man tried to silence me with the law Rokhaya Diallo
Rokhaya Diallo    A celebrity targeted me online, but under a system that should protect all equally, I was the one charged with a criminal offenceAs someone who has been in the public eye for the past years, I am used to scrutiny and criticism. Online hate especially when it targets women, and Black women in...
28  novembre     17h57
Tantric yoga guru Gregorian Bivolaru charged with human trafficking
Associated Press in Paris    French authorities arrest Misa leader in major raid over claims of organised kidnapping, rape and abuseFrench authorities have arrested the leader of a multinational tantric yoga organisation on suspicion of indoctrinating women for sexual exploitation.The Romanian guru was detained on Tuesday...
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France to ban smoking on all beaches in effort to create tobacco-free generation’
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris    Public parks, forests and areas near schools will also become smoke free as part of nationwide moveFrance is to ban smoking on all beaches, as well as in public parks, forests and near schools, after Emmanuel Macron promised to create the first tobacco free generation by . From now on, no...
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Crackdown on French far right urged after boy’s killing sparks protests
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris    Minister warns of risk from militias after death of year old blamed on immigrants and minoritiesThe French interior minister has called for the dissolution of three extreme right groups after a series of marches were organised in response to the killing of a year old in the south east of the...
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Remains of US army gunner shot down in France found 80 years on
Ramon Antonio Vargas    Franklin P Hall, at the time he died, was killed by Luftwaffe in and body had never been located or identifiedThe remains of a US army aviator who went missing after German forces shot his bomber plane down in France during the second world war nearly years ago have been located,...
27  novembre     13h09
Paris mayor quits X, calling social media site a gigantic global sewer’
Reuters in Paris    Anne Hidalgo, whose opponents have used the platform to criticise her, cited disinformation and antisemitism as reasons for leavingThe mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced she is quitting X, formerly Twitter, calling it a gigantic global sewer that is destroying our democracies by...
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Samuel Paty: six teenagers to go on trial in connection with French teacher’s beheading
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris    Children, aged at time of Paty’s death, accused variously of making false accusation and pointing out teacher to killerSix teenagers will go on trial in Paris on Monday in connection with events leading to the beheading of Samuel Paty in , in a case that horrified France.The year old...
26  novembre     08h00
Victims of French serial killer face last chance for justice as accomplice of Ogre’ goes on trial
Kim Willsher in Paris    Ex wife of Michel Fourniret will be tried for her role in three more murders, including that of year old Leeds student Joanna Parrish For more than years, the parents of British student Joanna Parrish have battled for justice for their daughter, murdered by the French serial killer Michel...