Tag: France

• Wednesday, October 5th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Nobel Physics Prize goes to 3 quantum mechanics researchers

  

  Quantum mechanics researchers from France, Austria, and the United States were awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell's inequalities and pioneering quantum information science,” it was announced in Stockholm by Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences.

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• Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Secretary General of Elysée Palace indicted for allegedly not disclosing family and job links to MSC cruises

  

  To powerful figures of French president Emmanuel Macron cabinet have been indicted on Monday for alleged matters of conflict of interest. One of them is the Justice minister, Eric Dupont-Monetti, while the other is Alexis Kohler, secretary general of the Elysee Palace who has been indicted in relation to ties with the Swiss-Italain shipping and cruise company MSC.

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• Saturday, August 27th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Liz Truss and Macron exchange “flowers” on UK/French relations

  

  French president Emmanuel Macron, on a visit to Algeria, took time to comment on remarks from the most serious candidate to become the next British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, and said he would not “for a second” hesitate to say “the United Kingdom is a friend of France,” despite its leaders or minor mistakes.

• Thursday, August 18th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Household pet dog reported having caught monkeypox

  

  Experts Wednesday issued a series of recommendations after the medical journal The Lancet reported the first case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox last week. The case occurred in France.

• Monday, July 11th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Europe divided over “greenwashing” gas and nuclear energy, but parliament ready to support the bill

  

  For the European Parliament natural gas and nuclear power plants have been designated as climate-friendly investments. The European Commission released the proposal, formally called the EU taxonomy, in December as a list of economic activities that investors can label and market as green in the EU.

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  France limits terminology for veggie foods: steak and sausage only with real meat

  

  France became the first EU country to ban words like “steak” and “sausage” applied to plant-based food. The decree becomes effective next October and states, “it will not be possible to use sector-specific terminology traditionally associated with meat and fish to designate products that do not belong to the animal world and which, in essence, are not comparable”.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Pie thrown at Mona Lisa by fake old woman

  

  A deranged young male visitor disguised as an old lady in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at Leonardo Da Vicini's Mona Lisa painting at Paris' Louvre Museum

• Friday, May 20th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  Argentina, “a nothing tour”, ending the war, German pastry and the Pope's knee

  

  Last week unexpectedly the Argentine president Alberto Fernandez left for a quick tour of three European countries, two confirmed before leaving, Spain and Germany and a third which was only later approved since French President Emmanuel Macron is facing legislative elections.

• Friday, May 13th 2022 - 09:31 UTC

  “No more room for wars,” Argentine President stresses in Paris

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández said Thursday during a press conference at his country's embassy in Paris that “the world needs to understand that there is no more room for wars.”

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Macron proposes new political union for Europe which would include Ukraine and the United Kingdom

  

  Speaking before the European Parliament in Strasbourg and later in Berlin, French president Emmanuel Macron proposed a new “European political community,” which would include both members and non-members of the EU, and thus incorporating Ukraine and even possibly the United Kingdom.