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France faces bigger borrowing costs as its credit rating takes a double hit

Credit rating agency Moody’s has downgraded France’s seven largest banks this week – just days after lowering the country’s own sovereign credit rating. The move signals rising borrowing costs for France, adding to a €3.2 trillion debt burden and deepening the pressure on an already fragile government.

Radio France Internationale

The Christmas that went wrong: I spent the day with three small children in an eerily deserted airport

With a seriously ill mother in Scotland and an arduous journey to France via Amsterdam, it had the makings of a nightmare day for everyone

The Guardian - UK

EU mobilises for cyclone-ravaged Mayotte as Macron hits back at angry crowds

The European Union has responded to France's request for assistance for its overseas territory of Mayotte, devastated by Cyclone Chido, as President Emmanuel Macron told angry locals they would be "10,000 times" worse off if they were not in France.

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Macron swears amid furious exchange with cyclone-hit Mayotte islanders

French president makes remark when confronted by residents still without water after huge storm last week

The Guardian - UK

This French city has topped the list of Skyscanner’s best value travel destinations for US travellers

US tourists can fly for less to cities in France and the Netherlands next year

The Independent UK

France's most powerful nuclear reactor joins grid after €13bn holdup

France's flagship Flamanville nuclear reactor in Normandy was to start supplying electricity to homes on Friday when it's reconnected to the power grid after a dozen costly years of technical setbacks.

Radio France Internationale

Lucky bustards: rare birds' habitat saved as French judges block mega-basins

A French court has halted plans to build four large water reservoirs in western France, ruling that they would threaten the survival of the little bustard, an endangered bird species.

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‘How many more Gisèles are out there?’: Pelicot trial jolts fight against sexual violence

Mass rape case in France has stirred up strong emotions and advanced a new feminist discourse, observers say

The Guardian - UK

French PM Rushes To Name New Government By Christmas

France's new Prime Minister Francois Bayrou was Friday racing to name by Christmas at the latest a government to lead the country out of its political crisis but with no sign of an end to months of tensions that have rattled President Emmanuel Macron.

International Business Times

Chad orders French troops to leave within six weeks as relations sour

French soldiers have been asked to leave Chad by 31 January, sources close to the government in Paris say – a deadline that RFI was able to confirm with Chadian authorities.

Radio France Internationale

Macron swears during angry exchange with heckling crowd while visiting cyclone-battered Mayotte

Jeering residents say French president has abandoned island in the wake of cyclone Chido

The Independent UK

French Court To Issue Verdict In Teacher Beheading Trial

A French court on Friday was expected to deliver a verdict against eight people charged in connection with the jihadist beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty in 2020, a murder that horrified France.

International Business Times

French PM Bayrou vows new government by Christmas amid budget crisis

France’s new prime minister, François Bayrou, says he hopes to name a government to lead the country out of its political quagmire by Christmas at the latest. France urgently needs to approve a state budget as official data on Friday showed public debt has climbed to €3.3 trillion.

Radio France Internationale

Who are the 51 men in Gisele Pelicot rape case; will old cases be reopened?

Investigators in France have reopened old cases, investigating Dominique Pelicot for rape and murder in the 1990s.

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Landmark Pelicot Mass Rape Trial Sparks National Conversation On Consent

The Pelicot mass rape case in France triggers national dialogue on sexual violence, consent, and legal changes.

The Independent UK

Verdicts expected for 8 people on trial over their role in the beheading of a teacher in France

Eight people accused of assisting an Islamic extremist who beheaded a French history teacher outside his school will hear the verdicts in their cases

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UTMB runners will have access to personalized online coaching in 2025, thanks to new partnership with RunMotion Coach

The partnership provides access to programs tailored to your objectives, schedule, level and conditions of fitness

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Friday briefing: Will the Gisèle Pelicot case finally change how we view violence against women?

In today’s newsletter: For years, Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife and recruited men to rape her. It could be a turning point in social and legal attitudes to sexual assault

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The Independent UK

Gisele Pelicot's Australian supporters are moved that their French heroine wore an Aboriginal scarf

A group of Gisele Pelicot’s Australian admirers say they're moved that the victim in France’s notorious drugging-and-rape case has acknowledged her distant supporters Down Under by wearing a scarf adorned with Aboriginal art

International Business Times

Five People Who Defined 2024

From great leaps in artificial intelligence to the heroic defendant in a mass rape trial that shocked France, here are the stories of five people who made their mark on 2024: - Gisele Pelicot: anti-rape icon - Gisele Pelicot, 72, was at the centre of a mass rape trial in…

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France and Comoros clash over migrants lost in Mayotte cyclone disaster

A row has erupted between France and the Comoros after Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau accused Comoran officials of facilitating illegal immigration to Mayotte, a French territory in the Indian Ocean. Mayotte is struggling to recover from Cyclone Chido, which devastated shanty towns housing many undocumented families.

The Independent UK

Why African countries are ousting France’s military, one by one

Paris’s influence on the continent faces the biggest challenge in decades

The Guardian - AU

‘The world’s bravest woman’: what the papers say about the end of the Pelicot trial

Papers quote from Gisèle Pelicot’s speech outside court, after her ex-husband Dominique and 50 others were found guilty in France’s biggest rape trial

The Independent UK

The chain of events that led to Dominique Pelicot’s horrific crimes being uncovered

His ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot became a global feminist icon during a gruelling public trial which horrified the world

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Pelicot rape trial: Merci, Gisèle, from women everywhere

Editorial: Gisèle Pelicot’s extraordinary courage and composure has forced a reckoning in France and elsewhere. We must act on her demand for change

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