The woke mayor of Lyon and member of the Green Party, Gregory Doucet, decided that school lunches in the city famous for its meat should be meatless.
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Wokeness and cancel culture from the US is a threat to France’ heritage and identity, French Politicans and intellectuals say
Politicians, prominent intellectuals, and academics in France have voiced concern that ‘out-of-control leftism and cancel culture’ from the United States is threatening French identity.
France & Germany threaten AstraZeneca with legal action if they favoured UK over EU when distributing Covid-19 vaccine
Tensions in a row between AstraZeneca and the EU over vaccine shortages have heightened further as Paris and Berlin said the company should face penalties or even legal action if it turns out it preferred Britons to Europeans.
French Government echoing Merkel, calling Big Tech a threat to Democracy
The French government has echoed Angela Merkel’s sentiment in saying it is “shocked” at Twitter’s banning of President Trump, asserting that Big Tech is a threat to democracy.
US suspends tariffs on French luxury goods over tax on Big-Tech
Washington has backed down from plans to hit $1.3 billion of French products with new tariffs. The levies were meant to be in retaliation to France’s attempt to hike taxes on American tech giants.
Macron copies Obama, cements his Islamophobia
More than 20 people, including children, were killed in airstrikes during a wedding ceremony in a remote desert area of central Mali, according to local sources.
USTR slams India, Italy, Turkey on digital taxes but holds off on tariffs
Digital services taxes adopted by India, Italy and Turkey discriminate against U.S. companies and are inconsistent with international tax principles, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said on Wednesday, paving the way for potential retaliatory tariffs.
Barcelona star Griezmann cuts Huawei ties over Uighur genocide
Barcelona footballer and French national team member Antoine Griezmann has announced he is cutting ties with Chinese technology giant Huawei over the continuing genocide of Uighurs in East-Turkestan (Xinjiang province).
UK and France sign new deal to curb illegal migrant flow
The United Kingdom and France have signed a new agreement to try to stop the undocumented movement of people across the Channel, upping patrols and technology to close off a dangerous route refugees and migrants use in hopes of reaching the UK on small boats.
French Police Officers under fire after Black music producer brutally attacked
The Paris prosecutor’s office has announced the indictment of the cops accused of beating black music producer Michel Zecler. Three of the four officers will remain detained before trial.
Thousands protest against French bill to curb identification of police
Several thousand people protested in Paris on Saturday against a bill that would make it a crime to circulate an image of a police officer’s face with the intention that they should be harmed.
France bans the Grey Wolves
France bans Turkish Nationalist Organisation.
Increased risk of a terrorist attack in Catalonia identified
Increased Terrorism threat in Catalonia.
NGO boat transported Nice Assassin in September
More information revealed about the Nice Assassin.
More people in custody after Nice incident
Two more men were arrested in connection with a knife attack that left three dead at a church in Nice.
Lockdown resistance in France
French government promised on Sunday to protect the nation’s beloved independent shops.
Orthodox Priest wounded in Lyon, suspect in custody
An attacker armed with a sawn-off shotgun on Saturday wounded an Orthodox priest in a shooting in the French city of Lyon.
Three in custody following Nice incident
A third person was taken into custody in France in connection with a knife attack which left three dead in Nice on Thursday, a police source said on Saturday, as the government ramps up security efforts against possible militant attacks.
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict groups meet for peace talks
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met international mediators in Geneva on Friday in the latest round of talks to resolve conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, where hundreds have been killed in more than a month of fighting.
How Joe Biden outlawed a hero called Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden, who in 2013 leaked information on how the NSA conducted surveillance on the public, said in an interview that former-Vice President Joe Biden warned foreign countries that there would be “consequences” if they granted him asylum. During a segment on “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams” on MSNBC, Snowden said both Biden and then-Secretary of State John Kerry blocked him from getting asylum.
“Muslims have a right to kill French people” former Malaysian PM says
The former Prime Minister of Malaysia reacted to a series of Islamic terror attacks in France by tweeting, “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.”
Three dead in in Nice, France
A knife attack at a church in the French city of Nice left three people dead and several others injured, police said on Thursday.
Kurdish family drowns trying to cross English Channel illegally
Four members of a Kurdish-Iranian family drowned while trying to cross the Channel after paying people smugglers £21,600 for a new life in Britain, it emerged today – as tragic final pictures emerged showing them in France hours before their fateful journey.
How did Macron enrage the Muslim world?
The origins of the outrage in parts of the Muslim world over the French president’s stance towards Islam spring from a speech he gave earlier this month, before the incident with Samuel Paty.
Turkish government condemns Charlie Hebdo
Ankara has accused Charlie Hebdo of promoting hatred after the French satirical magazine published a front-page caricature of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, amid cultural tensions between France and Muslim countries.
Resentment against France grows in the Muslim countries
In the wake of the murder of Samuel Paty, a teacher who was killed for showing students caricatures of Prophet Muhammad, French authorities have launched a crackdown on radical Islam, closing one mosque and raided several properties. Earlier in September, President Emmanuel Macron had pledged to fight “Islamist separatism” and to protect French values and principles.
Kurds in France delete pro-France tweet after backlash
Facing a backlash, the Paris representation of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq removed a message of support for France, after French President Emmanuel Macron came under fire for his anti-Islamic statements.