France
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Kylian Mbappé has been causing trouble at PSG this season. Since he signed a new contract with PSG and rejected Real Madrid this summer, the striker seems to be out of focus, and is clearly not happy with his teammates. This time, he had beef with Achraf Hakimi. In the tunnel, the french star and…
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Kylian Mbappe has been heavily linked with Real Madrid throughout his career, but especially over the past year. In the end, though, he decided to stay with Paris Saint-Germain and the forward has opened up about that decision. “You never know what’s going to happen,” Mbappe said when discussing his future with the New York Times, before recognising the constant lure…
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The financial details behind Kylian Mbappe‘s mega new contract with Paris Saint-Germain have been revealed. The Frenchman was expected to sign for Real Madrid in the summer, but his current club were able to produce a deal that he simply could not refuse. He has talked in depth about the contract in an interview with The New York Times, which has…
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An armed extortion gang, a witch doctor, and a scandal that has sent familiar whispers across France. French prosecutors have confirmed that they are investigating claims by World Cup-winning footballer Paul Pogba that he has been targeted by organised gangs for millions of euros. The affair — seemingly stemming from a family dispute — has…
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Hello and welcome to the Get a Grip prize, which I just invented. The GAG award is given on an ad hoc basis to a country doing a standout job of humiliating itself on the global stage by fixating on something ridiculous while the world burns. The award honours those who seem to have lost…
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France on Monday called for an investigation after a French journalist was killed in Ukraine when the vehicle he was traveling in, which was being used to evacuate civilians near the city of Sievierodonetsk, was hit by shelling. “France demands that a probe be carried out as soon as possible and in transparency on the…
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Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, has set its sights on France and announced it will help develop Web3 and blockchain projects in Paris. Binance boss Changpeng Zhao, nicknamed “CZ”, said at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit event on Wednesday that France can become the Web3 and cryptocurrency leader of the future. “I think France…
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Brad Pitt is suing Angelina Jolie for selling her share of the French vineyard where they got married in 2014. Superstars Pitt and Jolie, who were once Hollywood’s highest profile couple, bought a controlling stake of Chateau Miraval in southern France in 2008, and tied the knot there six years later. But they filed to dissolve…
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French regulators on Thursday fined Google and Facebook a total of more than 200 million euros ($226 million) for not making it as easy for people to opt out of online tracking as it is for them to accept it. The CNIL data privacy watchdog said its investigations found that while the U.S. online giants gave French…
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President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday condemned as “inexcusable” a deadly crackdown by Paris police on a 1961 protest by Algerians, the scale of which was covered up for decades by French authorities. Macron told relatives and activists on the 60th anniversary of the bloodshed that “crimes” were committed on the night of October 17, 1961,…
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Audrey Diwan’s L’Evenement, or Happening, a film about illegal abortions in 1960s France, has won the Venice Film Festival’s top prize, the Golden Lion. The gut-punching drama impressed viewers with its portrayal of a young woman desperate to arrange a termination, at a time when it could mean a prison term or death, to continue…
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Kylian Mbappé seems closer to Real Madrid than ever before. The Spanish club’s latest bid of €170 million plus €10 million in future add-ons is likely to be accepted by PSG, who were determined to make their money back on the forward that they signed from AS Monaco. On last night’s ‘El Chiringuito’, Josep Pedrerol…
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Argentine football star Lionel Messi said that he was looking forward to begin training with Paris Saint-Germain but acknowledged that it was “difficult” to leave Barcelona after so many years. “My only will now is to begin the training sessions. I want to work with the staff and my teammates,” Messi said at a press…
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A Catholic priest was murdered on Monday in the French western region of Vendée, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter. Darmanin expressed “all his support to the Catholics of our country” and said he was headed to the site in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre. A suspect handed himself over to police and said he had killed the…
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Six French soldiers were detained at the Bata airport in Equatorial Guinea on Thursday morning while stopping to refuel their helicopter, according to the French military and local media. The six, who the army said were still awaiting authorisation to take off, were detained a day after a Paris court upheld the conviction of the central African country’s Vice…
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Hungary, Israel and Algeria on Thursday probed allegations that Israeli-made spyware was used on journalists, rights activists and 14 heads of state, as French leader Emmanuel Macron ordered tighter security and changed his phone over espionage concerns. President Macron — whose name was on a list of alleged targets — ordered “a strengthening of all…
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