Rich nations finalise $100 bln climate aid at Paris summit: French president Emmanuel Macron

Rich nations finalise $100 bln climate aid at Paris summit: French president Emmanuel Macron

Wealthy nations have finalised an overdue $100-billion climate finance pledge to developing countries and created a fund for biodiversity and the protection of forests, France’s president said on Friday. President Emmanuel Macron was speaking at a final panel of a summit in Paris where some 40 leaders, including two dozen from Africa, China’s prime minister … Read more

PM Modi invited to France for Bastille Day parade

PM Modi invited to France for Bastille Day parade

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar France has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Paris as a guest at the annual Bastille Day parade in July, sources confirmed here, but said the visit is still under discussion. The visit, which would add to Mr. Modi’s already-packed diplomatic calendar, is … Read more

Protests continue in France; British King Charles’s visit postponed

Protests continue in France; British King Charles’s visit postponed

Firemen controlling the remains of a garbage fire from last night protests against the retirement bill in Paris, Friday, March 24, 2023. French President Macron’s office says state visit by Britain’s King Charles III is postponed amid mass strikes and protests. | Photo Credit: AP Protesters angry at French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms continued … Read more

French airports, schools and oil refineries hit by national strike over pension age increase | CNN Business

French airports, schools and oil refineries hit by national strike over pension age increase | CNN Business

Paris CNN  —  French transport networks, oil refineries and schools were hit by widespread disruption Thursday as workers staged a national strike to protest an increase in the retirement age that was pushed through parliament without a vote. Though sporadic demonstrations had popped up in Paris and other cities after the French government forced the … Read more

Macron: ‘New era’ in economic, military strategy in Africa

Macron: ‘New era’ in economic, military strategy in Africa

French President Emmanuel Macron scratches his face after delivering a speech ahead of his visit in Central Africa, at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Monday, February 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to reduce the number of French troops in Africa under a “new security partnership” with the concerned … Read more

France’s Macron announces multi-year increase in defence spending

France’s Macron announces multi-year increase in defence spending

French President Emmanuel Macron talks a soldier as he visits the Mont-de-Marsan air base, on Jan. 20, 2023 in France. | Photo Credit: AP President Emmanuel Macron on Friday said 400 billion euros ($433.16 billion) would be assigned to France’s military budget in 2024-2030, up from 295 billion euros in 2019-2025. The 2019-2025 defence bill … Read more

Striking French workers lead 1 million people in protest over plans to raise retirement age | CNN Business

Striking French workers lead 1 million people in protest over plans to raise retirement age | CNN Business

Paris/London CNN  —  Strikes disrupted train services, flights, schools and businesses in France on Thursday as more than one million people protested against the government’s plans to raise the retirement age for most workers. Protests in major French cities, including Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Nantes and Nice, brought many transport services to a standstill. The Eiffel … Read more

Donors meet in Paris to get Ukraine through winter, bombing

Donors meet in Paris to get Ukraine through winter, bombing

Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska, left, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, centre, and French President Emmanuel Macron attend the conference in solidarity with the Ukrainian people in Paris, on December 13, 2022. | Photo Credit: AP Dozens of countries and international organisations were throwing their weight behind a fresh and urgent push on December 13 … Read more

France to make condoms free for anyone under 25: President Emmanuel Macron

France to make condoms free for anyone under 25: President Emmanuel Macron

PARIS: France will make condoms free in pharmacies for anyone up to age 25 in the new year, President Emmanuel Macron announced Friday. The move comes as the government says sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise among young people, and as this year’s exceptional inflation is cutting especially deeply into the budgets of France’s … Read more

Will discuss issues of “global concern” in Bali: PM Modi

Will discuss issues of “global concern” in Bali: PM Modi

G20 Summit billboards are posted near the venue of the G20 Bali Summit on November 14, 2022, in Denpasar, Indonesia. The G20 leaders’ meeting will take place in Nusa Dua, Bali this week. | Photo Credit: Getty Images In a pre-departure statement Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that he will take up issues … Read more