Tesco has stirred up a cake row after a leading vet said brands should not use flat-faced dogs to promote their goods. Daniella Dos Santos, senior vice president the British Veterinary Association (BVA), has criticised the retail chain for using Frankie the French Bulldog as the character for a new celebration cake. […]
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vet declares war on Tesco over Frankie the French Bulldog treat
Tesco has stirred up a cake row after a leading vet said brands should not use flat-faced dogs to promote their goods. Daniella Dos Santos, senior Vice President the British Veterinary Association (BVA), has criticised the retail chain for using Frankie the French Bulldog as the character for a new celebration cake. […]
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French National Assembly Passes Anti-Extremism Bill Proposing Stricter Rules for Religion| National Catholic Register
PARIS, France — The French National Assembly has passed a bill that backers say will counter extremism and separatism, especially among French Muslims. However, the bill includes stricter controls on religion, bars religious symbols in some circumstances, and places strict regulations on homeschooling. The bill, titled “Supporting respect for the […]
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French National Assembly Backs Law to Combat Islamist Extremism
It bans so called “virginity certificates,” provided by some doctors for traditional religious marriages, and demands respect of the equality of men and women. Condoning terrorism becomes an offense that may lead to a ban on holding public office. In the article that prompted the most virulent debate, and over […]
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Dragnet, planned law boost French fight of Islamic radicals
Signs reading “School Life, Administration, access forbidden to unaccompanied students” are pasted on an office door at the MHS, Meo High School private college, in Paris Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. More than three dozen police officers descended on the small private school, blocked students inside their classrooms, took photos everywhere, […]
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Class-action lawsuit claims French police discriminate often
PARIS (AP) — In a first for France, six nongovernmental organizations launched a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the French government for alleged systemic discrimination by police officers carrying out identity checks. The organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, contend that French police use racial profiling in ID checks, […]
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This Weekend: French Fries for Breakfast? – OZY
Saturday, January 23, 2021 1. Bling Empire Wealth and fame are so unfair. So why can’t we look away? Maybe it’s just that rare window into what life would be like if our wildest, filthiest dreams came true … or maybe it’s just the branding. Either way, Bling Empirefollows in […]
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The French law protecting those who speak funny is a real crime
In the preface to Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw wrote: “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making another Englishman hate or despise him.” As of last week, any French citizen who follows suit risks a prison sentence and a hefty fine. While the French electorate (like […]
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French protesters decry bill outlawing use of police images
PARIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of critics of a proposed security law that would restrict the filming of police officers protested across France on Saturday, and officers in Paris who were advised to behave responsibly during the demonstrations repeatedly fired tear gas to disperse rowdy protesters who set fire […]
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French Protesters Decry Bill Outlawing Use of Police Images | World News
By ANGELA CHARLTON and THOMAS ADAMSON, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of critics of a proposed security law that would restrict the filming of police officers protested across France on Saturday, and officers in Paris who were advised to behave responsibly during the demonstrations repeatedly fired tear […]
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Backlash, investigation after French police toss migrants from tents
Paris France’s interior minister ordered an internal police investigation Tuesday after officers were filmed tossing migrants out of tents while evacuating a protest camp in Paris. Aid groups and the government were working to find temporary lodging for hundreds of migrants forcibly removed from the short-lived camp on the Place […]
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French lawmakers pass controversial bill that restricts the publication of images of police
French lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday that critics say could make it harder for journalists and human rights advocates to hold police accountable. The Global Security Bill’s most controversial section — Article 24 — which was approved by lawmakers on Friday, forbids the publication of images that allow the […]
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French parliament votes through law that curbs identifying police
The Week I was wrong about Mitt Romney The Donald Trump phenomenon is purported to have divided friendships, families, and even marriages. I can attest to this fact in my own suburban Washington household, for this perhaps peculiar professional reason: It has occasioned my wife, the longtime sufferer of all […]
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French official accuses Paris police of “shocking” tactics in violent clearing of migrant camp
Paris — France’s interior minister has called some of the images posted online of police clearing an illegal migrant camp in central Paris on Monday night “shocking.” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has promised an investigation into accusations that officers were heavy-handed, tipping over tents, chasing people down streets and hitting protesters […]
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French children could get ID numbers to keep them from ‘the clutches of Islamists’
Macron is attempting to tackle what he calls “Islamist separatism” – GETTY IMAGES Each child in France will be given an ID number to ensure they are attending school and not in “the clutches of Islamists” under a proposed French law on preventing radicalisation in the wake of a string […]
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French schools reopen in mourning after beheading of teacher
A woman holds her child by the hand on their way to the school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, Monday Nov.2, 2020. All schools in France hold a minute of silence at 11h to honor the teacher beheaded in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine for showing his class caricatures of Islam’s prophet for a […]
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Two students were paid to identify slain French teacher, authorities say
French prosecutors on Wednesday argued that the person who beheaded a French teacher last week had paid two students in exchange for helping the attacker identify the teacher. Prosecutors claimed that 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov, whom police shot and killed after he attacked 47-year-old history teacher Samuel Paty in broad daylight, […]
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French police target Islamist networks after teacher’s beheading
French police on Monday launched a series of raids targeting Islamist networks, three days after the beheading of a history teacher who had shown his pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin vowed there would be “not a minute’s respite for enemies of the Republic”, after […]
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The Latest: Curfew comes into force in French cities
A health worker makes a heart sign while she and her fellow workers celebrate as the last three patients are released from a field hospital at the National Stadium Mane Garrincha, after recuperating from COVID-19, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. Eraldo Peres AP PARIS — French restaurants, cinemas […]
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French Navy seen shepherding migrants into UK waters, and abandoning them
The Channel migrants on Wednesday – STEVE FINN PHOTOGRAPHY/STEVE FINN PHOTOGRAPHY It was shortly after 7am that the French Navy’s 105-ton patrol boat came into view. As the P726 Aramis sat quietly on the horizon across the English Channel, we spotted, in front of her, a small shape bobbing in […]