• Lobster bisque and onion soup on ISS menu for French astronaut
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    Chef with 10 Michelin stars has designed meals for Sophie Adenot’s trip to International Space Station next year When the French astronaut Sophie Adenot travels to the International Space Station (ISS) next year, she will be heading for...
  • French PM François Bayrou failed to act on abuse at Catholic boarding school, report says
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    Damning report by MPs comes after inquiry into allegations of decades of physical abuse, rape and sexual assault at Notre-Dame de Bétharram school The French prime minister, François Bayrou , failed to act to prevent physical and sexual...
  • French police charge ‘incel’ suspected of planning knife attack on women
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    Detention of 18-year-old man part of anti-terror police force’s first case linked to involuntary celibate movement An 18-year-old French man suspected of planning attacks on women has been charged in the country’s first case of a terror...
  • Spanish police investigate Catalan wildfire deaths as extreme temperatures grip Europe – as it happened
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    This blog has now closed, you can read more on this story here In other high stake talks, EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič will be in Washington today in another attempt to strike a tariff deal with the US before the 9 July deadline next...
  • Three Ubisoft chiefs found guilty of enabling culture of sexual harassment
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    Former staff likened offices of video game company in Paris to a ‘boys’ club above the law’ Three former executives at the video game company Ubisoft have been given suspended prison sentences for enabling a culture of sexual and...
  • Macron and Putin discuss Iran in first call in three years
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    Call between French and Russian presidents comes as Tehran says it is ending cooperation with UN nuclear inspectors The French president, Emmanuel Macron, spoke to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for the first time in three...
  • EU’s proposed 2040 emissions target signals its retreat as leader on climate action
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    Proposal faces the surprising opposition of France – despite most Europeans being firmly in favour of climate measures Europe live – latest updates For most of the past 30 years, the EU has led the world on climate action. The bloc had...
  • Europe’s heatwave moves east as row erupts in France over air conditioning
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    French far-right leader’s ‘grand plan’ to expand AC comes under attack, while Germany braces for possible record heat The European heatwave has moved east, threatening record temperatures in Germany, as a political row broke out in...
  • The Guardian view on Europe’s heatwave: leaders should remind the public why ambitious targets matter | Editorial
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    With net zero targets under attack from the populist right, dangerously high temperatures should refocus minds At times like now, with dangerously high temperatures in several European countries, the urgent need for adaptation to an...
  • Italy limits outdoor work as heatwave breaks records across Europe
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    Portugal and Spain suffer historic temperature highs for June, as French schools close because of heat Outdoor working has been banned during the hottest parts of the day in more than half of Italy’s regions as an extreme heatwave that...
  • Temperature records shatter as heatwave grips Europe and UK records hottest day of year – as it happened
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    Public health warnings as heatwave raises concerns about impact of climate change What you need to know about heatwaves The French prime minister François Bayrou , who attended a government crisis meeting over the heatwave, was asked...
  • Children crossing Channel from France exposed to teargas, report says
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    NGO says rise in interventions has only increased danger as new data shows at least 15 children died in transit last year Children and babies coming to the UK on small boats from northern France have been teargassed and subjected to...
  • I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes? | Rokhaya Diallo
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    A biopic of Frantz Fanon and other remarkable new movies are finding success via social media, yet remain invisible at the big film festivals France’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was historically among the most...
  • ‘A supermarket for sexual predators’: abuse scandal at elite boarding school shakes France
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    Legal complaints filed by former pupils accuse priests and staff of physical or sexual abuse from 1957 to 2004 When 14-year-old Pascal Gélie saw a brochure for an elite French Catholic boarding school boasting swimming in summer and...
  • ‘Even if we stop drinking we will be exposed’: Parts of France have banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe?
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    Forever chemicals have polluted the water supply of 60,000 people, threatening human health, wildlife and the wider ecosystem. But activists say this is just the tip of the Pfas iceberg One quiet Saturday night, Sandra Wiedemann was...
  • The French town that banned its tap water and the chemicals that could be in yours - podcast
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    Phoebe Weston heads to Alsace, eastern France, to hear about a ban on drinking water caused by dangerously high levels of ‘forever chemicals’ Sandra Wiedemann was watching TV on a Saturday night when she first saw the news that the water...
  • Europe heatwave grips Italy, Spain and France as wildfires rage in Turkey – as it happened
    Monday, June 30, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    Second day of blazes in Izmir with strong winds fanning the flames and some areas evacuated How are you being affected by the heatwave in southern Europe? in Berlin Germany is bracing for its own heatwave this week, with temperatures...
  • Spain records highs of 46C and France under alert as Europe swelters in heatwave
    Monday, June 30, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    Extreme heat ‘the new normal’, says UN chief, as authorities across the continent issue health warnings A vicious heatwave has engulfed southern Europe, with punishing temperatures that have reached highs of 46C (114.8F) in Spain and...
  • An Ordinary Case review – Daniel Auteuil directs and stars in tense Ruth Rendell-ish crime procedural
    Monday, June 30, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    A careworn husband is accused of murdering his wife in a story inspired by a real life case that dispenses with the genre’s familiar brutality Here is a fictionalised true crime drama, but one that is more stately and sedate than the...
  • France implements smoking ban at beaches and parks in step towards ‘tobacco-free generation’
    Sunday, June 29, 2025 from World news: France | theguardian.com
    Under new rules anyone who lights up on a beach or in a public park from Sunday will be breaking the law Anyone who lights up on a beach or in a public park in France will be breaking the law from Sunday under new rules aimed at...
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