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France's EDF again sends spent uranium to state-owned Russian firm for recycling
A shipment of reprocessed uranium from French nuclear power plants has left the Channel port of Dunkirk to be enriched at a specialised Russian industrial plant run by the country’s nuclear energy g…
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November 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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The chronicles of a genocide in Gaza (part six)
Mediapart in May began publishing a series of reports regularly sent to it from inside the Gaza Strip by two young Palestinians who chronicled the everyday events of life and death, displacement and…
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November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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A survivor of the Bataclan terrorist massacre reflects on the purpose of remembrance
Emmanuel Domenach, 38, survived the shooting massacre at the Bataclan music hall in Paris on November 13th 2015, when terrorists belonging to the so-called Islamic State group led a series of attack…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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'No children, no Christmas bonus': how the childless are treated as political scapegoats in France
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'No children, no Christmas bonus': how the childless are treated as political scapegoats in France
A French minister recently suggested that people on welfare benefits who do not have children should no longer get the traditional Christmas bonus payment provided by the state. In doing so, report …
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November 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy released from jail but barred from contacting justice minister
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Ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy released from jail but barred from contacting justice minister
After serving 21 days behind bars, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been freed from custody. The ex-head of state was released from La Santé prison in Paris where he had been starting a f…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Police violence at French environmental protest was 'deliberate strategy' says UN rapporteur
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Police violence at French environmental protest was 'deliberate strategy' says UN rapporteur
Mediapart and Liberation newspaper last week published videos showing how gendarmes policed a protest at a controversial irrigation reservoir at Sainte-Soline in western France in 2023. Footage from…
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November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The anti-colonial revolution for which France has never forgiven Algeria
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The anti-colonial revolution for which France has never forgiven Algeria
Achieved on the back of a breakdown in Franco-Algerian relations, Rassemblement National's first parliamentary victory late last month underlines the extent to which the far-right's rise to power is…
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November 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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French minister orders probe after revelations about gendarmes' conduct at Sainte-Soline irrigation protest
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French minister orders probe after revelations about gendarmes' conduct at Sainte-Soline irrigation protest
Mediapart and Libération have published worrying evidence about the policing of a protest at the site of a controversial crop irrigation reservoir at Sainte-Soline in western France in 2023 which le…
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November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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How economic model of France's controversial reservoir irrigation system is starting to crumble
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How economic model of France's controversial reservoir irrigation system is starting to crumble
Large artificial reservoirs, built for farmers and filled from underground water sources in winter to irrigate crops during the summer, are bitterly opposed by environmentalists and have been a sour…
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November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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How the massive unrest of 2005 shaped urban design across France's deprived districts
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How the massive unrest of 2005 shaped urban design across France's deprived districts
On October 27th 2005 teenagers Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré were electrocuted while hiding from the police in an electrical substation in a northern suburb of Paris. Their deaths led to three weeks o…
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November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Why Macron bears responsibility for MPs' vengeful vote against 1968 Franco-Algerian accord
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Why Macron bears responsibility for MPs' vengeful vote against 1968 Franco-Algerian accord
On October 30th October MPs in the National Assembly voted for a non-binding motion criticising the 1968 accord between France and its former colony Algeria. It was thanks to its active allies on th…
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October 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Excavations on Martinique highlight island’s Amerindian roots
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Excavations on Martinique highlight island’s Amerindian roots
The extraordinary discovery of a large, 1,500-year-old Amerindian site on France’s Caribbean island of Martinique has delighted archaeologists and further fuelled arguments that the rich and ancient …
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October 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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First trial begins over alleged Russian dirty tricks campaign in France
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First trial begins over alleged Russian dirty tricks campaign in France
In May 2024 red hand symbols were daubed on the Holocaust memorial in Paris, vandalism that was quickly blamed on Russia. On October 29th four Bulgarian nationals will face trial – one in abstentia …
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October 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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The migrants who disappeared in the Channel, and why the corpses were never identified
In October last year, an inflatable dinghy carrying an estimated total of 60-70 migrants left the north-east French coast hoping to cross the Channel to England. But shortly after leaving it took on…
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October 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Prison staff unions slam in-jail armed police protection for Sarkozy
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who on Tuesday began serving a five-year prison term for criminal conspiracy to gain funding for his 2007 election campaign from the regime of Libyan dictato…
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October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Sarkozy behind bars: how a powerful elite seeks to portray the ex-president as a victim
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Sarkozy behind bars: how a powerful elite seeks to portray the ex-president as a victim
At just before 9.40am on October 21st Nicolas Sarkozy entered the gates of La Santé prison in Paris to begin the five-year jail term he was given after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy in th…
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October 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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The study that estimates the numbers of Russian dead in Ukraine at 219,000
A meticulous study into Russian losses in Ukraine published this month by exiled Russian media outlets reports that since the Kremlin launched what it called a “special military operation” against i…
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October 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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French PM narrowly survives vote of no confidence
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu (pictured) and his new government have survived two motions of no confidence tabled in parliament on Thursday, after the socialists abstained from the voting …
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October 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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NGOs mount legal challenge against 'one in, one out' migrant deal between UK and France
A group of 16 prominent organisations active in the defence of human rights in general, and those of migrants in particular, have launched a legal challenge in France against the so-called “one in, …
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October 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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The 'new' French government, a déjà vu group of Macron loyalists
One week after the resignation of Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, and the collapse of his government, President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Lecornu to lead what is now the fourth minority go…
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October 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Behind France's political crisis, the arrogance of an increasingly isolated Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed his close ally Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, just five days after the latter resigned from the post. The future of his minority government, th…
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October 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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The shadow of the far-right RN hanging over terrorist cases in France
A Mediapart investigation has revealed that at least nine men convicted of, or awaiting trial for, far-right terrorism-related offences in France have either held positions of responsibility within …
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October 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak on why 'there is no other solution but two states'
In an interview with Mediapart, former Israeli prime minister and ex-chief of general staff of the country's military, Ehud Barak, details his view of the so-called Trump plan for an end to the war …
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October 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Chaos as under-pressure Macron clings on to the PM who quit just hours after naming government
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Chaos as under-pressure Macron clings on to the PM who quit just hours after naming government
France's prime minister Sébastien Lecornu handed in his resignation on Monday morning just a few hours after announcing his team of government ministers. Caught off-guard by Lecornu's surprise actio…
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October 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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French politics stares into the abyss as new PM quits hours after naming his government
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French politics stares into the abyss as new PM quits hours after naming his government
France's prime minister Sébastien Lecornu handed in his resignation on Monday morning just a few hours after announcing his team of government ministers. Caught off guard by Lecornu's surprise actio…
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October 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM