“#MissFrance2021 is not an anti-Semitic competition,” Citizenship Minister Marlene Schiappa tweeted, sending her support to April Benayoum, Miss Provence and the first runner-up in this year’s Miss France contest. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said he was “deeply shocked” by the hate directed at the beauty queen. “We must not let …
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In response to a question from RT correspondent Igor Zhdanov as part of his annual end-of-year press conference on Thursday, Putin said there was a fine balance between expressing yourself and insulting the feelings of entire groups of people. “Where is the boundary between one freedom and another freedom,” the …
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President Emmanuel Macron was diagnosed with Covid-19 on Thursday, the Elysée Palace said in a morning press release. “This diagnosis was established following an RTPCR test performed as soon as the first symptoms appeared,” the statement read. The COVID-19 RTPCR test is a real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test …
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Speaking on France Info TV, the minister of the economy, Bruno Le Maire, used a phrase coined by the recently deceased John le Carré, calling the UK’s departure from the EU a “political, economic and historical folly,” and stating that “Brexit is madness.” Asked about the impact of a no-deal …
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The Florida state attorney’s office has filed a felony charge against Ciprès, who allegedly sent pictures of his penis to a 13-year-old girl in 2017 while preparing for the 2018 Winter Olympics in the US with his skating partner Vanessa James. READ MORE: ‘I had no idea about her assault’: Bareknuckle …
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In announcing planned laws aimed at targeting radical Islamism, French President Emmanuel Macron has bowed to his liberal critics and watered down the draft legislation so that the problem he is aiming to address is not even mentioned. It’s so bloody polite. And that is something of a surprise, because …
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Versatile forward Rodriguez had been compared to Cristiano Ronaldo early in his career, playing alongside the five-time Ballon d’Or winner during seven years with Real Madrid that included Champions League wins in 2014 and 2016. After a serious knee injury kept him out for nine months in 2014, Rodriguez said …
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Clement Beaune, France’s European Affairs Minister, told Europe 1 radio on Friday that Paris is not willing to accept a UK-EU trade deal on bad terms. I still hope that we can have an agreement, but we will not accept a bad agreement for France. If there was an agreement …
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In 2018, Zineb Redouane was closing the shutters of her flat in Marseille when she was struck by the canister, fired during a Yellow Vest demonstration. Experts estimated it had been travelling at more than 97km/h when it hit her chest and face, and she died in hospital shortly thereafter. …
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Christophe Castaner, president of La Republique en Marche in the National Assembly, told the press on Monday that the government recognized “misunderstandings” around article 24 of the global security bill. Castaner said article 24, which prohibits the filming of on-duty police officers, of the law on comprehensive security would be …
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