France

Eiffel Tower needs blowtorch for ice as snow blankets Europe

4:41 pm February 10, 2021

Paris: Workers at the Eiffel Tower used a blowtorch to melt the ice collecting on its surfaces and snow was blocking roads and halting trains and school buses Wednesday across northern France. Amid a European cold snap, areas in Normandy and Brittany unused to such icy conditions were closing highways for lack of snow-clearing equipment. In parts of the Paris region, local authorities […]

Uttarakhand flood:French President Macron expresses solidarity with India

11:48 pm February 7, 2021

New Delhi: French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday expressed France’s full solidarity with India in the wake of a glacier burst at Joshimath in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district that triggered a massive flood in the region. ”France expresses its full solidarity with India, after a glacier burst in the Uttarakhand province, leading to the disappearance of over 100 people. Our thoughts are with them and their families,” Macron said […]

Pasteur Institute ends main vaccine project

10:16 pm January 25, 2021

Paris : France’s Pasteur Institute announced on Monday it is abandoning its main COVID-19 vaccine project after clinical trial tests did not meet expectations. The decision was made in coordination with its industrial partner, U.S. pharmaceutical company Merck, the statement said. The project was attempting to develop a COVID-19 vaccine based on an existing measles vaccine. Pasteur’s statement stressed that […]

French doctors: Don”t talk on public transport

7:41 pm January 23, 2021

Paris: French doctors have new advice to slow the spread of the virus: stop talking on public transport. The French Academy of Doctors issued guidance Friday saying people should “avoid talking or making phone calls” in subways, buses or anywhere in public where social distancing isn’t possible. Masks have been required since May, but travellers often loosen […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

French victims of child abuse speak out in new #MeToo wave

11:24 pm January 21, 2021

Paris: “I was 9. … It was my father. He raped me until I was 17.” The French government pledged on Thursday to toughen laws on the rape of children after a massive online movement saw hundreds of victims share accounts about sexual abuse within their families. The move comes in the wake of child […]