Eleven dead in fire at French holiday home for disabled
Wintzenheim, France Reuters Eleven people died in a fire that tore through a holiday home for disabled people in eastern France in the early hours of Wednesday, officials said. The blaze broke out around 6.30am as the holiday-goers with learning disabilities and their carers were still asleep in the two-storey building in the town of […]
Temperatures rise as France tackles its worst drought on record
Paris, FranceReuters France on Sunday braced for a fourth heatwave this summer as its worst drought on record left parched villages without safe drinking water and farmers warned of a looming milk shortage in the winter. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne’s office has set up a crisis team to tackle a drought that has forced scores […]
France’s Macron hunts for way to salvage a ruling majority
Paris, FranceReuters President Emmanuel Macron on Monday was faced with trying to salvage a ruling majority and with it his economic reform agenda after voters punished his centrist Ensemble alliance in France’s parliamentary election. While Ensemble secured the largest number of lawmakers in the 577-seat National Assembly, it fell comfortably short of the threshold required […]