Topic: France 🇫🇷

France's right-dominated Senate has backed a bill to ban religious symbols including the Muslim headscarf in all sport competitions – professional and amateur – sparking accusations of discrimination from the left, and rights advocates.

Police will begin carrying out random bag searches for knives and other weapons in schools, in a bid to fight an increase in violent attacks, the French education minister has announced.

French President Emmanuel Macron has strongly condemned a deadly attack in the eastern French city of Mulhouse – in which one person was killed and several others wounded – denouncing it as an 'Islamist terrorist act' and has vowed to intensify efforts to eradicate terrorism in France

French President Emmanuel Macron has reiterated his intention to block the EU-Mercosur trade agreement, arguing that it threatens French agriculture, undermines environmental standards, and creates unfair competition for European farmers.

Morocco will take centre stage at the 61st Agriculture Show, opening on 22 February in Paris, marking the first time a foreign country has been honoured as a guest of the renowned French fair.

French TV stations C8 and NRJ12 will cease broadcasting on 28 February after the Council of State, France's top court, rejected their appeals against the removal of their frequencies.

Top French politicans on Thursday backed a bill to tighten up rules stopping foreigners without the correct residency papers from getting married in France.

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