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France faced unusually hot weather on Monday, the national weather service said, after enduring record high temperatures for a month of May at the weekend. In the northwestern city of Rennes, 74-year-old Daniele Dupont tried to stick to the shade as she walked her dog in 27C on Monday morning "I'm going to close the shutters. I won't be going out this afternoon," she said in the capital of the Brittany region, across the Channel from the United Kingdom.
The police, who did not name the victim, said several balaclava-wearing intruders broke into the house. Once inside, they threatened the occupants and inflicted minor head injuries upon one family member, under circumstances that remain to be established. Alain Prost's McLaren leads teammate Ayrton Senna at Suzuka in 1989 during the Frenchman's heyday as one of Formula One's greatest drivers.
The 41-year-old woman and the 55-year-old man could potentially be placed in pretrial detention following the hearing in the port city of Setubal as authorities investigate alleged child abuse, endangerment and abandonment. The boys, aged four and five, were found crying on the side of a road on Tuesday evening by a passing motorist near the resort town of Comporta, where they had been left with backpacks containing food and water but no identity documents, according to Portuguese media.
The children, French brothers ages 3 and 5, are the woman's sons. They were found Tuesday along a road near Alcacer do Sal, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Lisbon, carrying backpacks with food, water and a change of clothes. But the boys didn't have identification documents, Portuguese media reported. A passerby and his wife rescued the boys and took them to the police station. They did not have identification documents, Portuguese media reported.
Around 20 suspected victims had made themselves known after she urged potential victims to speak up in February. Some were already known to investigators, she told the RTL broadcaster. "But we also had new victims come forward, ones we didn't know at all. There are around ten of them," she added. "The choice we've made for the time being is to listen to these victims," she said.
“We have investigations underway in 84 preschools, around 20 primary schools, and about 10 daycare centres,” the city's top prosecutor Laure Beccuau told the RTL broadcaster. Five people have been summoned to court, Beccuau added.
Brigitte Macron has denied claims she slapped her husband in the face last year after reading text exchanges between him and French-Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, according to a report. The first lady of France, 73, caused a stir in May last year when she appeared to push president Emmanuel Macron, 48, in front of cameras as they prepared to disembark a plane during a state visit to Vietnam. At the time, her husband insisted they had only been joking, but a new book presented claims this week that Mrs Macron was enraged after seeing an alleged text exchange between Emmanuel and the actress Farahani.
When Gabon's media regulator indefinitely suspended major social media platforms in February, citing security concerns during anti-government protests, it became the talk of town literally. Within weeks of the announcement, use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to bypass the restrictions surged in the central African country. When gendarmerie began stopping young men at road checkpoints in the capital Libreville and other urban centres to confiscate mobile phones with VPNs installed or detain the owners, warnings spread by word of mouth.
The Ambassador Cruise Line ship is being held in Bordeaux after more than 49 passengers and crew fell ill from gastroenteritis. The woman, from Belfast, who wished to remain anonymous, boarded the ship, named Ambition, in Belfast on Friday. The ship then travelled to Liverpool the following day. It had originally been due to leave Bordeaux for Ferrol in Spain, before travelling to Gijon and Bilbao.
Residents of the Cite Soleil neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince have taken to the streets to demand government protection after a new surge of gang violence forced hundreds of people to flee their homes over the weekend. Protesters said on Tuesday they had witnessed people being killed in Cite Soleil in recent days. Haitian authorities have yet to release any information on casualties.
France is pitching what it says is a new model of partnership with African countries at a summit that begins Monday in Kenya as it completes a military withdrawal from West African countries that has been widely seen as marking declining influence on the continent. But Paris is expected to use the two-day Africa Forward Summit, which it is co-hosting, to push a new Africa policy that focuses more on English-speaking countries and offers what it calls a partnership of equals.
The United States was deporting her and 13 other West Africans to Ghana, a country none of them called their own. From there, she feared, she would be sent on to neighboring Togo, the home she had fled to avoid genital mutilation.
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Ukrainian NGO Truth Hounds, which documents and investigates war crimes, and France's Human Rights League (LDH) first told the authorities Yevhen Brazhnikov was in France four years ago. France's National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) announced on Friday that the suspect, whom they only identified partially as Yevhen B., had been taken into police custody on April 7th, then charged and placed in pre-trial detention.
FIFPRO is hailing a landmark legal win after a European rights body agreed to investigate whether the French state failed to uphold labour standards for professional footballers. The unanimous decision by the European Committee of Social Rights in March marks the first time a players' union has successfully advanced a collective complaint under the European Social Charter. It paves the way for an investigation into whether France has failed to ensure proper working conditions for professional players, including minors.
