Ministers allegedly attended underground dinner parties as restaurants remain closed; new COVID-19 cases top 67,700

Prosecutor Remy Heitz launched the probe following the broadcast of local news outlet M6 Info’s news expose on the underground luxury parties organized in Paris

France opens probe into secret parties amid pandemic

Castex said he "unreservedly" condemned people who had not been respecting the rules, after images of beer-swigging crowds on riverbanks under spring sunshine in cities including Paris and Lyon

Meanwhile, prosecutors should "systematically" probe organisers of clandestine parties for putting the lives of others in danger

France to ban outdoor drinking under new virus restrictions

The world's most-visited museum has created a new database of 482,000 items at collections.louvre.fr with more than three-quarters already labelled with information and pictures

A year of pandemic-related shutdowns has seen an explosion in visits to the Louvre's website

Louvre puts entire collection online

The Respire ("Breathe") group said it filed its suit in Paris on Monday after its own analyses at several stations, as well as pollution readings by the state-owned RATP operator, had revealed alarming levels of particle pollution in recent years

Some four million people use the metro system each day, and the RATP employs tens of thousands of drivers and other workers

Paris metro operator sued over air pollution

The announcement paves the way for new curbs in the greater Paris region, where intensive care wards are full and the hospital system is buckling with an incident rate of more than 400 cases per 100,000 inhabitants

Seagulls are seen on an empty beach of the Promenade des Anglais during the first local weekend lockdown imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) contagion, in Nice, France, February 27, 2021.

France to impose tougher COVID-19 curbs on Paris, other regions

With the transfers, officials hope to avoid a new lockdown for the roughly 12 million people in and around the capital

Of the nearly 4,100 Covid patients currently in intensive care nationwide, around 1,100 are in Paris-area hospitals

France to evacuate around 100 COVID patients from Paris

The park, which employs 17,000 people, closed between March 13 and July 15 last year, and has been shut again since October 30

Anyone with bookings would be able to reschedule or ask for a refund

Disneyland Paris postpones re-opening again

Police discovered AK-47 assault rifles and handguns in March 2016 in an apartment in a Paris suburb rented by Reda Kriket, a 39-year-old suspected Islamist, along with the same type of explosive used during deadly attacks in Paris in November 2015.

Kriket, who had been linked to the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks and had been under surveillance for weeks, was arrested in another Paris suburb and charged with a terrorist conspiracy

France trial over alleged 2016 Islamist attack plot

A total of 1,000 oaks are due to be hacked down by the end of March

Oaks from every region of France are being used to rebuild the cherished national monument

France selects first oaks to rebuild Notre Dame

The government has extended a publicly-funded scheme providing one-euro meals to those on grants and made it available to all students

Students get food during a distribution organised by French charity food distribution association "Les Restos du Coeur" (Restaurants of the Heart) at a CROUS student residence in Paris during the coronavirus disease pandemic in France, February 16, 2021.

Students in France wait for food handouts as COVID-19 destroys part-time jobs

The worst flooding was in the town of Saintes, 115 km (71 miles) north of Bordeaux, where the Charente river stood at a near-record level of 6.20 metres (20 feet)

Rescue workers on small boats help residents in a flooded area as the Charente River overflows in Saintes after days of rainy weather causing flooding in western France, France, February 8, 2021.

Southwest France hit by heavy floods, Paris area on flood alert

It was the biggest robbery of an individual in France in two decades, with the thieves making off with a combined haul worth about nine million euros

Yunice Abbas, who calls himself a "part-time crook," was one of 12 people arrested for nabbing a small fortune in jewels after surprising Kardashian in the luxury residence she rented to attend Fashion Week

Kardashian thief recounts Paris heist in tell-all book

Angry owners say their livelihoods are at risk since the closures were ordered on October 30, with little prospect of a return to business as usual anytime soon

French restaurants have been closed since October 30 to halt coronavirus contagions

France opens probe into secret parties amid pandemic

France to ban outdoor drinking under new virus restrictions

Louvre puts entire collection online

Paris metro operator sued over air pollution

France to impose tougher COVID-19 curbs on Paris, other regions

France to evacuate around 100 COVID patients from Paris

Disneyland Paris postpones re-opening again

France trial over alleged 2016 Islamist attack plot

France selects first oaks to rebuild Notre Dame

Students in France wait for food handouts as COVID-19 destroys part-time jobs

Southwest France hit by heavy floods, Paris area on flood alert

Kardashian thief recounts Paris heist in tell-all book

French government warns restaurants after secret openings

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France opens probe into secret parties amid pandemic

France to ban outdoor drinking under new virus restrictions

Louvre puts entire collection online

Paris metro operator sued over air pollution

France to impose tougher COVID-19 curbs on Paris, other regions

France to evacuate around 100 COVID patients from Paris

Disneyland Paris postpones re-opening again

France trial over alleged 2016 Islamist attack plot

France selects first oaks to rebuild Notre Dame

Students in France wait for food handouts as COVID-19 destroys part-time jobs

Southwest France hit by heavy floods, Paris area on flood alert

Kardashian thief recounts Paris heist in tell-all book

French government warns restaurants after secret openings