French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday that the nation was banning domestic travel and closing schools for several weeks as a surge in COVID-19 cases has strained hospitals across the country. “We’re going to close nursery, elementary and high schools for three weeks,” Macron said in a televised address […]
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Winning the Tour de France was just about the craziest thing the UAE cycling team could imagine doing in the middle of a global health crisis. Even as the squad rolled onto the Champs-Élysées with the leader’s yellow jersey last September, they could hardly believe they had pulled it off. […]
With American tourists banned from Europe, online posts from expatriates are as close to a vacation abroad as many got this year. Jamie Beck, 37, a photographer who was living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, moved to Provence about four years ago, and now she documents the sunflowers […]
Four years ago, Jamie Beck was a photographer living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She was on a plane and had an anxiety attack and was convinced she would die. “The first thing I thought was, ‘I will never know what it’s like to live in France,’” she […]
PARIS—Before the killings began, Nice’s largest church was quiet and nearly deserted. Vincent Loqués opened the Basilica of Notre-Dame at 8:30 a.m. as usual. The landmark cathedral, a striking bone-white structure, was built in the mid-1860s in the Neo-Gothic style and sits on Nice’s Avenue Jean Médecin—a busy artery in […]
When the boat capsized two miles off the coast in seas whipped up by 18 mph winds, they were trapped in the cabin as 15 others on board were pulled from the water. Rescuers believe two other migrants are missing, feared dead. The region’s prosecutor, Sebastien Pieve, has already interviewed […]
(Bloomberg) — Germany will extend a program designed to stop millions of workers losing their jobs, joining several other European nations in renewing its job-support package. Meanwhile, France is preparing to announce a 100 billion-euro ($118 billion) stimulus plan next week. Japan’s virus czar said the country faces a second […]
Group of musicians avoid quarantine by 10 minutes by hiring fishing boat to travel from France to UK
The Scotland-based Dunedin Consort were staying in Lessay Abbey in Normandy, performing their first concert since lockdown, when the 14 day quarantine was announced. A group of musicians managed to avoid the French quarantine rules with 10 minutes to spare after chartering a fishing boat to get them back to […]
The company hopes to ‘protect local communities’ with its decision – AFP/LIONEL BONAVENTURE Airbnb has banned under-25s with repeat negative reviews from hiring local homes through its platform in an attempt to cut down on unauthorised parties. Trialling the initiative in Britain, France and Spain, the online lettings website announced it will […]
Action stations: Dover is expected to be extremely busy as travellers race to get home before quarantine takes effect: Port of Dover Hundreds of thousands of British holidaymakers in France, Malta and the Netherlands, and many more with plans to visit these countries, face two weeks in self-isolation when they […]
Travelelrs, wearing protective face masks, line up at a check-in desk of the Orly Airport, south of Paris on August 1, 2020 during a major weekend of the French summer holidays – Stephanie de Sakutin/AFP France is among six countries that have been struck off the Government’s quarantine free travel […]
Paris has tightened rules on wearing face masks in public France is days away from being added to the UK’s quarantine list, according to senior sources within the Government. The Foreign Office is due to update its ‘safe’ list this week, with Portugal hoping to gain its first travel corridor […]
PARIS — Face masks are now required in France’s supermarkets, shopping malls, banks, stores and indoor markets to curb worrisome signs that the coronavirus is making inroads again. The measure took effect Monday. A fine of 135 euros (US$155) can be levied against those who don’t comply. Masks were already […]