France

French luxury group LVMH will be a major sponsor of next year's Summer Olympics in Paris. It is the first time the parent company of fashion brand Louis Vuitton, among others, has co-financed an international sports competition. …
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The French government is considering whether it could restrict social media in the event of new large-scale riots. President Emmanuel Macron suggested the idea yesterday during a speech to 300 mayors gathered at the Elysée. It came…
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Three people are due to appear in court in September because they showed their middle fingers and shouted insults earlier this month during the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Sélestat, a municipality in Alsace. The…
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The French fashion house Hermès does not seem to have suffered from the strict corona restrictions in China during last year's last quarter. Turnover rose almost a quarter to a record high of 11.6 billion euros, where experts…
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In the north of France, a house fire killed 7 children of a composite family. The children's mother also died. The father was rescued from the burning house and is in hospital with severe burns. The cause of the fire is not yet…
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Microsoft has been fined 60 million euros in France for the way its search engine Bing handles cookies. These are small pieces of software left on users' computers by websites that allow them to monitor those consumers. According…
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Judges in Paris have sharply reduced a cartel fine for American tech giant Apple to a third of the original amount. The company behind the iPhone now only has to pay 371.6 million euros instead of the previously imposed record fine…
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Air France expects to cancel more than half of its short- and medium-haul flights on Friday as a result of a strike at French air traffic control. Longer flights are largely spared, the airline reports on its website. French air…
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