One of France’s last surviving D-Day commandos who was among the first troops to land in Normandy dies aged 106 Hubert Faure was one of 177 French-led commandos who land in Normandy By the end of June 6, 1944, ten of the men led by Lt Philippe Kieffer were dead They achieved their objective of … Read more
French teachers in the city of Nice have overwhelmingly rejected AstraZeneca’s Covid jab after just 58 out of a possible 3,000 signed up to be vaccinated. The jabs were being offered at a mass vaccination centre in Nice’s Palais des Expositions this weekend, with 4,000 available to those aged over 55 in high-risk occupations, meaning 3,000 … Read more
Thousands of protesters clashed with police in Lahore, Pakistan, during a demonstration against President Macron’s support for a magazine showing a ‘blasphemous’ Prophet Mohammed cartoon. Anti-French sentiment has been simmering for months in Pakistan since President Emmanuel Macron‘s government expressed support for a satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s right to republish cartoons. It comes as Saad … Read more
Far-right politician Marine Le Pen declares she will run in the 2022 French presidential election and says victory over Emmanuel Macron is ‘plausible’ President Macron’s handling of Covid-19 have dented his chances of re-election Marine Le Pen has promised an immigration referendum as her first act in office She lost the 2017 presidential election to … Read more
Thousands of people are turning down AstraZeneca jabs in France due to ‘wave of panic’ created by Emmanuel Macron – with blood clot link ‘the final blow’ Medics say people are turning down the vaccine in droves after Macron’s U-turns Political opponents claim the anti-Brexiteer questioned jab to attack the UK Mayor of Calais today … Read more
Boris Johnson said that the latest wave of Covid that has forced a fresh lockdown in France was ‘sad’ today – and warned that the UK must be ready for it to cross the Channel. On a visit to Hartlepool this afternoon the Prime Minister said that experience had shown that the disease usually hit the … Read more
Emmanuel Macron has been accused of behaving like a ‘monarch’ while presiding over ‘a disaster the like of which we’ve never seen’ after he imposed a third national lockdown. The French president last night blamed the ‘British variant’ for creating ‘a pandemic within a pandemic’ as he finally bowed to weeks of pressure from medics … Read more
France will enter a third national lockdown for four weeks, French president Emmanuel Macron announced in an address to the nation on Wednesday night. The decision comes as a third wave of Covid-19 – blamed largely on the so-called ‘British variant’ of the virus – surges across Europe and countries face a race against time to … Read more
France will enter a third national lockdown for four weeks, French president Emmanuel Macron announced in an address to the nation on Wednesday night, expanding current measures in 19 territories to the whole country. The decision comes as a third wave of the coronavirus surges across Europe and countries face a race against time to vaccinate … Read more
President Emmanuel Macron believes he has become such an expert on Covid that ‘he is no longer following the advice of scientists,’ according to colleagues. The 43-year-old faced damaging leaks in today’s Le Monde, one of France’s bestselling newspapers, which painted him as self-important and obstinate amid a surging third wave. It comes as his … Read more