News in brief
Thousands of members of France’s nonprofit organizations took to the streets on Saturday to denounce the budget cuts and rising costs that threaten their survival. Demonstrations were held in more than 70 cities, at the call of Le Mouvement Associatif, which represents 700,000 associations across......
Brazil is celebrating a tourism milestone, welcoming 7 million international visitors between January and September 2025 — a 45% increase compared to the same period last year, according to Embratur, Brazil’s tourism promotion agency. With its iconic beaches, festive atmosphere, and year-round......
The anti-drug brigade deployed in Villeurbanne’s Tonkin district less than a year ago has succeeded in dismantling all eight drug-dealing points that once plagued the neighborhood, according to the Rhône prefecture. The last two trafficking hubs were taken down this week, marking a major......
An Amber Alert was issued on Friday morning in the Var region of southern France following the abduction of a four-year-old girl named Maëlle. According to the Toulon public prosecutor Raphaël Balland, the child was allegedly taken by her father under “very......
After more than a century and a half, the crown of the Virgin Mary statue atop the Basilica of Notre-Dame de la Garde—known affectionately as the “Bonne Mère”—is about to regain its place on the city’s skyline. The 150-kilogram crown, removed at the end......
As France faces a deepening political crisis, President Emmanuel Macron has invited the leaders of political parties and parliamentary groups to a meeting at the Élysée Palace this Friday at 2:30 p.m., according to concordant sources. The Rassemblement......
The Nîmes Court of Appeal has sentenced Husamettin Dogan to 10 years in prison in the Mazan rape case, making him the only defendant to have appealed his previous conviction. Prosecutors had sought a 12-year sentence. In the first trial, Dogan had been sentenced to nine years in prison. The general......
An explosion occurred on Thursday morning, October 9, at an Orange technical facility in Paris, injuring three technicians, two of them seriously, according to police sources. The incident took place around 10:30 a.m. on Avenue de Saxe, in the city’s 7th arrondissement, while workers were performing......
A man was shot and killed in the 3rd arrondissement of Marseille, according to sources confirmed by BFM Marseille. The incident occurred shortly after 11 a.m. on Rue de Crimée. Marseille firefighters and paramedics arrived on the scene but were unable to save the victim, who had multiple gunshot......
The Rhône gendarmes stopped an 18-year-old driver for driving at 169 km/h on a stretch limited to 80 km/h in the eastern part of the department, near Saint-Exupéry Airport. The young driver, who had obtained his license only two months ago, was immediately stripped of his driving license.......
Lennart Monterlos, the 19-year-old Franco-German cyclist, who was imprisoned in Iran in June during a bike tour, returned discreetly to Paris on Thursday morning. Sources close to the case confirmed that Monterlos landed at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport shortly before 9:20 a.m. after several months......
The world’s appetite for sparkling wines has doubled in the past two decades, according to the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV). Driven by the unstoppable success of prosecco, global production and consumption of sparkling wines have soared — even as still wine sales stagnate. Italy,......
French endurance cyclist Sofiane Sehili will remain in custody in Russia after a regional court in Primorye rejected his appeal against his detention, Russian judicial authorities announced on Thursday. Sehili, 44, was arrested in early September for allegedly crossing the Russian border illegally while......
