France World

Le Congolais Gauthier Mvumbi, star inattendue du Mondial de handball

Inconnu du grand public il y a encore quelques jours, le handballeur Gauthier Mvumbi est devenu l’espace d’un week-end la sensation du Mondial organisé en Égypte. Le joueur de la République démocratique du Congo s’est fait remarquer par son physique hors normes et ses bonnes prestations.

France World

Covid-19 : la répartition des vaccins en France bientôt “publiée”, selon Olivier Véran

Emmanuel Macron a demandé à Olivier Véran de “publier en toute transparence” la répartition des doses de vaccins dans le pays, a indiqué le ministre de la Santé mardi. Il a aussi assuré qu’”il n’y avait pas de stocks cachés” et que la vaccination se fait “à flux tendu”.

Business

Carrefour shares pop as merger talks intensify

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., the Canadian owner of Circle K convenience stores, is exploring a takeover of French grocer Carrefour SA in a roughly $20 billion deal that would create a trans-Atlantic retail giant. Couche-Tard’s initial proposal values the French company at about 20 euros per share, people with knowledge of the matter said. That would […]

Business

“Problematic”: Trump’s Twitter ban prompts outcry over tech companies’ power from Germany, France

Donald Trump received unexpected backing from Germany and France after the U.S. president was shut off social media platforms including Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc., extending Europe’s battle with big tech. German Chancellor Angela Merkel objected to the decisions, saying on Monday that lawmakers should set the rules governing free speech and not private tech […]

Business COVID 19

France’s vaunted health system fails its greatest test in generations: the COVID-19 vaccine rollout

For decades, France has boasted how its first-rate public health system—for which the French pay heavily in taxes—amply cares for its 67 million people, from birth to the end of life. And Louis Pasteur, the Frenchman who invented the world’s first vaccine in the 1880s, is nationally revered, with streets and a renowned research institute […]

Business

Pierre Cardin, legendary fashion designer and licensing genius, dies at 98

Pierre Cardin, the French designer whose famous name embossed everything from wristwatches to bedsheets after his iconic Space Age styles shot him into the fashion stratosphere in the 1960s, has died, the French Academy of Fine Arts said Tuesday. He was 98. A licensing maverick, Cardin’s name went on thousands of products and in the […]