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French acreage of ware potatoes to increase in 2025

Fresh Plaza · July 10, 2025

According to the first estimates of the field study carried out by the National Union of French Potato Producers (UNPT) on behalf of CNIPT, "The French surface area intended for the production of ware potatoes - processing and fresh (excluding...

Video shows large ‘fire vortex’ at Utah wildfire, damaging fire engine

Deseret News - Utah · July 14, 2025

No injuries were reported, but a fire engine was damaged when a massive “fire vortex” formed within a fire burning in southeast Utah over the weekend. The rare weather phenomenon occurred while crews were battling the Deer Creek Fire, which was...

French Open pushed back one week

Rediff ·

ATP and WTA announce August resumption. IMAGE: French Tennis Federation did not specifically state that the tournament would have no fans. Photograph: Jacky Naegelen/Reuters The re-scheduled French Open has been pushed back a further week and the...

France–UK migration deal piles more pressure on EU asylum policy

The Parliament Magazine · July 10, 2025

The English Channel, just 34 kilometres wide at its narrowest point, is at once a jam-packed shipping highway, a symbol of the UK’s cultural distance from its European cousins, and a flashpoint for migration concerns fuelling the political agenda...

French authorities wave on dozens of migrants to cross the English Channel

LondonlovesBusiness · July 10, 2025

On Thursday morning HM Coastguard and Border Force vessels were sent out to escort migrants boats crossing the English Channel. The French authorities waved on the migrants allowing them to make the illegal and dangerous crossing. The Prime...

France, UK join forces in step toward European nuclear deterrent

Defense News · July 10, 2025

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — France and the United Kingdom, Europe’s two nuclear-armed powers, have agreed to coordinate their atomic arsenals in response to major threats against the continent. The decision comes as part of a series of defense...

France asks FCAS partners to ‘rethink’ work share on fighter project

Defense News · July 10, 2025

PARIS — France proposed to partners Germany and Spain to “rethink” the work share on the Future Combat Air System project in order to stick to a schedule that would see a future fighter enter into service from 2040 onwards, the country’s...

French and South African creative industries in the spotlight at ICC Forum 2025

AfricaBusiness.com · July 10, 2025

French and South African leaders from the creative economy recently gathered in Pretoria for the ICC Forum 2025, a flagship event of the ICC Immersion South Africa programme, hosted at the French Residence in Pretoria. Part of the France 2030...

French university courts American researchers seeking "scientific asylum"

CBS News ·

A university in France says nearly 300 American researchers have applied for a space in its "Safe Place for Science" program that was created to lure U.S. researchers seeking "scientific asylum" amid aggressive academic spending cuts and other...

France Cracks Down On Smoking In Public Spaces To Protect Youth, Environment

MENAFN · July 10, 2025

(MENAFN- Bangladesh Monitor) Dhaka: As of July 1, France has implemented a sweeping nationwide ban on smoking in outdoor areas popular with children-including parks, beaches, playgrounds, school entrances, sports venues, and bus stops. The move,...

Voices: ‘Schengen, the euro, the whole thing’: Readers say UK must fully commit to rejoining EU

The Independent · July 14, 2025

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Want to get paid £70,000 to move to a remote island? Here’s how - but there’s a catch

The Independent · July 14, 2025

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

French Watchdog Fines Shein for Failing to Disclose Microplastics in Its Products

Sourcing Journal - New York · July 9, 2025

France’s consumer protection watchdog has fined the Dublin-based company that operates Shein’s European websites and apps 1.1 million euros ($1.3 million) for failing to disclose the presence of synthetic microfibers, also known as microplastics,...

France reaffirms commitment to facilitate sustainable Rohingya solution

Bangladesh Post ·

France today reaffirmed its commitment to engaging with all relevant stakeholders to facilitate a sustainable solution of Rohingya crisis, emphasizing the importance of addressing humanitarian needs on both sides of the border. The assurance was...

French giant EDF will take 12.5% stake in new UK nuclear plant

Macau Business · July 9, 2025

French energy giant EDF will have a 12.5-percent stake in new British nuclear power plant Sizewell C, London and Paris revealed Tuesday in the first deal announcement of President Emmanuel Macron’s UK state visit. State-owned EDF will invest...

France reaffirms commitment to help solve Rohingya crisis

United News of Bangladesh ·

French Special Envoy for Myanmar Christian Lechervy on Wednesday reaffirmed France's commitment to engaging with all relevant stakeholders to facilitate a sustainable solution, emphasising the importance of addressing humanitarian needs on both...

Reframing the French Indo-Pacific: Clipperton, France’s Indo-Pacific Edge

The Diplomat · July 11, 2025

As Emmanuel Macron wrapped up his visits to Vietnam, Indonesia, and Singapore – where he delivered the keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue at the end of May – the French president reaffirmed the Indo-Pacific’s strategic importance for both...

France’s data centre energy demand to grow 74% by 2050

Mobile Europe · July 9, 2025

France is becoming a default European hub for data centre development due to its low-carbon intensity, stable baseload supply, and its position as a digital interconnection hub. Central to this is that France already derives 65-70% of its...

Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

Defense One ·

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On July 4, the broken remnants of a powerful tropical storm spun off the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico...

Climate change linked to thousands of heat-related deaths in Europe

Medical News · July 9, 2025

Human-induced climate change may have intensified the European heatwave between 23 June and 2 July 2025, and increased the number of heat-related deaths, according to a new rapid analysis. Extreme heat swept across Europe in late June and early...