Tag : Europe

Tag: Europe

Wearing masks outdoors mandatory in Paris starting Friday

Sporting masks even outside can be obligatory in Paris beginning on Friday, French authorities have announced, as the nation struggles to return to grips with an Omicron surge. France is leading Europe in new infections, with a report 208,000 new in...

Covid-19: France breaks European daily record again with 208,000 new cases

International Covid-19 infections have hit a report excessive over the previous seven-day period, Reuters knowledge confirmed on Wednesday, with France, the USA and Australia all reporting that they had broken their earlier day by day data of latest...

France offers intensive care nurses €100 monthly bonus amid Covid-19 exhaustion

France can pay intensive care nurses an additional 100 euros per thirty days from January as it seeks to enhance work circumstances for workers exhausted by the battle towards COVID-19, Prime Minister Jean Castex stated on Tuesday.

France closes mosque north of Paris after 'unacceptable' preaching

France has ordered the closure of a mosque within the north of the nation due to the novel nature of its imam's preaching, regional authorities advised AFP on Tuesday.

French PM Castex announces new steps to slow Omicron, but schools to stay open

French Prime Minister Jean Castex introduced Monday that in response to a speedy spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, the federal government was narrowing the delay for a 3rd booster shot to 3 months from four, however there can be no curfew f...

French-Syrian man arrested in France over chemical weapons parts in Syria

A French-Syrian man has been detained by French police on suspicion of supplying elements for the manufacture of chemical weapons in Syria by means of his delivery company, sources briefed on the case advised AFP Sunday.

Success of online medical portal Doctolib highlights the French state’s failure to digitise

French company Doctolib’s website and app permit customers to ebook medical appointments by means of a web-based portal. They boomed in reputation in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic – allowing many to entry each vaccinations and consultations wi...

France reduces wait time before booster to three months after initial vaccinations

France on Friday really helpful that adults receive a Covid-19 booster vaccination three months after their preliminary jabs, decreasing the rule of five months to raised struggle the Omicron variant.

Conservative Pécresse looks to establish herself as the ‘only threat’ to Macron

The one candidate to have edged Emmanuel Macron in any poll for the all-important second spherical of the French presidential election, Valérie Pécresse has loved surging scores since she gained the conservative Les Républicains social gathering mai...

France approves Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for all children aged 5-11

France's Haute Autorite de Sante (HAS) health regulator accepted the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for all youngsters aged 5-11 on Monday.

Former French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve 'haunted' by Paris attacks

The minister in control of France's security at the time of the 2015 assaults in Paris by which Islamist gunmen killed 130 individuals informed a courtroom on Wednesday that he was haunted by the query of whether authorities might have executed extr...

Decathlon stops selling canoes in northern France to prevent migrant crossings

Sports gear retailer Decathlon stated Tuesday it will not promote canoes within the north of France to stop migrants from trying to use them to cross to England.

France clears major migrant camp amid tensions with Britain over Channel crossings

French police cleared a serious migrant camp on Tuesday that was house to around a thousand individuals hoping to succeed in Britain, amid tensions between London and Paris over Channel crossings.

Former French PM Fillon appeals five-year sentence for corruption

A French courtroom on Monday began hearing an attraction by former prime minister François Fillon towards a conviction in a corruption scandal that torpedoed his presidential ambitions and sealed the rise of Emmanuel Macron.

Paris forces e-scooters to slow down following death of pedestrian

Rented electric scooters can be pressured to decelerate to only above walking velocity in lots of areas of Paris underneath new guidelines coming into pressure on Monday, after the demise of a pedestrian hit by a scooter in June triggered demands fo...