Parisians swam in the Seine on Saturday as authorities opened the river to public swimming for the first time since 1923, after a major cleanup ahead of its use in last year’s Paris Olympics.
Paris will deploy 5,400 police officers for Saturday’s UEFA Champions League final, between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan, police chief Laurent Nunez told French broadcaster Cnews on Friday.
French farmers blocked highways and rallied with tractors in Paris on Monday, protesting against amendments filed by opposition to a bill that would loosen environmental regulations on farming.
A long-delayed nuclear fusion project involving more than 30 countries is set to assemble the world’s most powerful magnet to create clean energy by smashing atoms together at super-high temperatures.
A 15-year-old fatally stabbed a fellow pupil and wounded three others at a high school in the western French city of Nantes on Thursday, before he was overpowered by teachers, police said.
