Charles Bremner
The Times of London
Belgium
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Marine Le Pen ‘now favourite to be president’ amid pension fury
President Macron’s unpopular attempt to make the French work for longer cleared its first parliamentary hurdle on Friday with one clear winner so far: Marine Le → Read More
Cleverest chatbot flunks French philosophy exam
Teachers may be alarmed over cheating with computer-generated answers but the latest robot is no match for the Baccalauréat philosophy examination. ChatGPT, → Read More
Paris shooting: riots after racist gunman kills three
Two people were shot dead and four were wounded when a man opened fire near a Kurdish cultural centre in central Paris this morning.The gunman, 69, was arrested by police near the Ahmet Kaya centre, just east of the Paris opera.Witnesses said the man opened fire at a group of people without warning, → Read More
Iranian refugee who inspired The Terminal film dies in Paris airport
An Iranian who spent 18 years as a castaway in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, inspiring the Spielberg film The Terminal starring Tom Hanks, has died on a be → Read More
Daredevils in wingsuits claim record-breaking flight over Mont Blanc
A trio of French skydivers has claimed a new record for a flight in wingsuits that skimmed the summit of Mont Blanc and hurtled over ridges and through crevasses into the Chamonix valley. Fred Fugen, a 43-year-old pioneer of the extreme sport, led Vincent Cotte and Aurélien Chatard out of a helicopt → Read More
France to boosts its ‘meagre’ supply of weapons for Ukraine
France is to send up to 12 more high-tech artillery weapons to Ukraine, President Macron is expected to announce, as he faces criticism over France’s meagre su → Read More
France’s ‘most British airport’ to be named after the Queen
The Channel resort of Le Touquet, the favourite French playground of British kings and upper crust celebrities in the early 20th century, is to name its histori → Read More
British woman among five killed in Corsica storm
The tourist vanished early this morning while kayaking off the Mediterranean island → Read More
Wildfires across Europe are likened to Dante’s inferno
The heatwave brought death and destruction to southern Europe on a scale that left tourist spots resembling “Dante’s inferno” yesterday.Worse could follow with → Read More
Weakened Emmanuel Macron fights to restore status as leader of the EU
Troops from nine eastern European member states will march at the head of the Bastille Day military parade tomorrow in a gesture by President Macron to symbolis → Read More
Marine Le Pen reaps benefit of Emmanuel Macron’s mistakes
There was one clear victor from France’s electoral upheaval on Sunday: Marine Le Pen. Fifty years after her father Jean-Marie founded the right-wing National F → Read More
French election: Macron loses overall majority
French voters have inflicted a stinging reversal on Emmanuel Macron, stripping him of his overall parliamentary majority and installing a new opposition led by → Read More
French government goes to court to reimpose city burkini ban
Row over public pool attire divides the left on generational lines → Read More
Why Russia still has friends in France despite Ukraine invasion
When Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, French social media filled with scorn. The public vote was obviously truqué (fak → Read More
Macron calls for new ‘European political community’ — and Britain could join
President Macron has urged Europe to spare his Russian counterpart from “humiliation” and told Ukraine it must wait decades to join the EU. → Read More
French Socialists fracture as party veterans reject deal with radical left
France’s old centre-left opposition was on the verge of collapse today after senior figures in the long-dominant Socialist party rejected a pact with the anti-capitalist left that is aimed at wresting power from President Macron in parliamentary elections next month. François Hollande, the president → Read More
France seizes €100m block of flats under new Russian sanctions
Grand Paris flats, a château in the commuter belt and Mediterranean villas are among ten new Russian properties that have been seized by the French authorities as the country pursues the EU’s most aggressive sanctions campaign.The finance ministry said it had added to its confiscation list — which a → Read More
Marine Le Pen’s rebrand fails to help loser escape her past
For Marine Le Pen’s disciples, it was going to be third time lucky. After five years of work to reshape her image, the 53-year-old leader of the National Rally had at one point seemed poised for revenge → Read More
Can Marine Le Pen win the 2022 French presidential election?
The battlefield for the French presidency has shifted leftwards as Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen each fight to convince millions of voters which of them is → Read More
Can Marine Le Pen win the French presidential election?
The battlefield for the French presidency has shifted leftwards as Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen each fight to convince millions of voters which of them is → Read More