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Actor Gerard Depardieu ‘giving up French passport’ in tax controversy
France’s leading actor Gerard Depardieu said on Sunday he was giving up his French passport after being “insulted” by the prime minister calling him “pathetic” for becoming a tax exile in Belgium. In an open letter to Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, the 63-year-old “Cyrano de Bergerac” and “Green Card” star…
Report: France’s only hope to stop smoking is price hikes
France’s efforts to stub out smoking have been a complete failure, a spending watchdog said Thursday in a damning report that warned only sustained price hikes will curb the country’s love affair with Gauloises and Gitanes. “The risks of smoking are still gravely underestimated by the public,” said Didier Migaud,…
Shooting instructor kills two in France over noisy party
A gun instructor in southern France enraged at his neighbour for staging a noisy party went on a shooting rampage, killing two people and wounding two others, police said. The 49-year-old man, an instructor at a shooting range, went to his downstairs neighbours in the town of Sete, asking them…
U.S. clashes with France over Palestinians status at UN
WASHINGTON — The United States publicly disagreed with France, one of its closest allies, on Tuesday, after Paris said it would back a Palestinian bid for enhanced status at the United Nations. “We obviously disagree with our oldest ally on this issue. They know that we disagree with them,” State…
Moody’s downgrades France’s credit rating
Moody’s credit rating agency has stripped France of its coveted AAA rating and declared that the country’s economic outlook remains “negative”. In what will be a severe blow to Socialist president François Hollande, the agency said it was reducing the country’s rating from AAA to AA1, claiming France’s ability for economic…
Over 100,000 march against gay marriage in France: police
More than a hundred thousand people attended rallies across France Saturday in protest at plans to legalize gay marriage, according to police figures obtained by AFP. In Paris alone, 70,000 people turned out at one rally, said police — organisers put the figure at 200,000 — while another 22,000 protested…
France denies access to refuge for Mayan end-of-the-world believers
France on Friday dashed the hopes of those who had planned to take refuge in one of the few places on Earth some believe will be spared when the world ends on December 21. Local officials banned access to the Pic de Bugarach, a mountain in the southwest where rumour…
Star butchers in France aim to sex-up image
They call themselves the best in the world. But France’s butchers are only now stepping out of the shadows, with stars of the trade showing off their skills on television shows, in books or at celebrity cook-outs. Suppliers to three-star restaurants, artists or the president’s table, a handful of butchers…
French Jews to sue Twitter over anti-Semitic tweets
Twitter, a day after saying it blocked a neo-Nazi group’s account in Germany in a global first, faced a new battle Friday in France where Jewish students are taking it to court to force it to remove anti-Semitic messages. The UEJF Jewish students’ union said it was filing a suit…
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: ‘Leave me alone!’
Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has pleaded to be left alone and says he is facing a “media assault” in an interview with French weekly Le Point. “I have never been convicted, not in (France) nor in any other country,” he said in the interview, due to appear on…
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