Newark Police Searching for French Press Thief, Coffee Crook
NEWARK, N.J. — Authorities are requesting the public’s assistance in identifying a woman suspected of shoplifting items from a Starbucks on Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Boulevard, Newark Public Safety Director Emanuel Miranda…
French union urges Airbus to reopen salary pact due to inflation
PARIS (Reuters) – One of France’s largest unions, Force Ouvriere, has called on planemaker Airbus to renegotiate part of an existing salary accord to take account of high inflation, in the latest…
Casino to step up promotions as cost of living crisis weighs on French sales
By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) -French retailer Casino vowed on Tuesday to spend more on promotions this quarter to help cash-strapped shoppers after sales at its Geant hypermarkets in France fell sharply…
French consumer confidence fell slightly in February from January -INSEE
PARIS (Reuters) – French consumer confidence fell back slightly in February compared to January, said the INSEE statistics body on Friday, which also revised up its earlier reading for the January figure.…
French economy moves back into growth territory in February -flash PMI
By Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS (Reuters) – French economic activity grew in February for the first time since October, helped by a slight easing in inflationary pressures and strength in the jobs market,…
French Finance Minister to meet retailers this week over food inflation worries
By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) – French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday he will meet retailers this week to find ways to help shoppers cope with high food price…
Top court sides with French taxman against LVMH on legality of 2019 raids
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s tax investigators on Wednesday won a case against luxury giant LVMH when the country’s highest court ruled that an earlier decision stating it was illegal to raid the…
New French envoy seeks release of citizens in talks with Iran’s Raisi
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s new envoy to Iran told President Ebrahim Raisi that Tehran had to immediately release seven French nationals detained in the country, the foreign ministry said after the envoy…
Strikes against pension reforms to disrupt French rail and air traffic on Tuesday
PARIS (Reuters) – French train and air services are expected to be heavily disrupted on Tuesday by a nationwide strike against pension reforms, the national railway and civil aviation authorities said on…
French, German ministers to tell U.S. don’t poach EU investments -sources
PARIS (Reuters) – France and Germany’s economy ministers will tell senior U.S. officials not to try to actively poach green investments from Europe when they visit Washington next week to raise concerns…
French police apprehends suspect in Finnish therapy data hacking
HELSINKI (Reuters) – French police apprehended on Friday a 25-year-old Finnish man suspected of breaching patient records of some 33,000 psychotherapy clients in Finland, the Finnish central criminal police said. Finland’s National…
Man detained on French high-speed TGV after attack threat
By Marine Strauss and Alain Acco BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A man was arrested after threatening to commit an attack while travelling on a high-speed TGV train in eastern France on Friday. Police…
TotalEnergies raises by 15% bonus budget for some key French staff
PARIS (Reuters) – French oil giant TotalEnergies said on Thursday that it would raise by 15% the budget allocated to bonuses for some of its staff in France in view of its…
Cost of living crisis tests striking French workers
By Layli Foroudi and Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) – French railway worker Franck Viger-Brunet says he and his comrades have to count carefully the costs of going on strike to force President…
French Jan factory activity rebound not as strong as forecast -PMI
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s manufacturing activity rebound in January was not quite as strong as first forecast, a survey showed on Wednesday, as new orders remained weak. S&P Global’s final purchasing managers…
French inflation rises to 7.0% in January on energy prices
PARIS (Reuters) – French inflation rose in January on higher energy prices after the government phased out some measures that had reined in increases, according to preliminary figures released on Tuesday. Consumer…
Top French university bans use of ChatGPT to prevent plagiarism
PARIS (Reuters) – Sciences Po, one of France’s top universities, has banned the use of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-based chatbot that can generate coherent prose, to prevent fraud and plagiarism. ChatGPT is…
Two French women sentenced in Nicaragua to eight years in jail -rights group
MANAGUA (Reuters) – A judge in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua, on Thursday sentenced two French citizens to eight years in jail, according to a human rights group, on charges of conspiracy amid a…
Pickup in French manufacturing offers hope as services sector still weak -flash PMI
PARIS (Reuters) – Output in the French economy fell slightly overall again in January, a purchasing managers’ survey showed on Tuesday, but manufacturing activity improved for the first time since August. A…
French advertising firm Publicis names WPP’s Ikiler as EMEA COO
(Reuters) – Publicis has appointed WPP’s Demet Ikiler as its chief operating officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the French advertising agency said on Monday. Ikiler, who joins after more…
French court orders Uber to pay some $18 million to drivers, company to appeal
By Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) – French court on Friday ordered Uber to pay around 17 million euros ($18.43 million) in damages and lost salaries to a group of drivers who argued…
Strike cuts French power supply, halts refinery shipments
By Forrest Crellin, Benjamin Mallet and America Hernandez PARIS (Reuters) -A nationwide strike against pension reform in France led to a substantial fall in electricity output and halted deliveries from refineries operated…
French Uber drivers to earn more than $8 per ride after union deal
By Mathieu Rosemain PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Uber drivers are poised to earn a minimum of 7.65 euros net ($8.25) per ride after a sector-wide deal with unions, setting up a precedent…
French court dismisses complicity in war crimes charge against TotalEnergies – lawyers
PARIS (Reuters) – A French court has dismissed charges of complicity in war crimes against oil major TotalEnergies, lawyers for the NGOs who brought the charge said in a statement. In October,…
French unions gear up for fight against delayed retirement
By Noemie Olive and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) – French unions and opposition parties on Wednesday said they would fight hard to try to derail a highly unpopular plan to make people…
French drug company Servier launches Mediator appeal
PARIS (Reuters) – French drugmaker Servier on Monday launched its appeal against manslaughter and deception convictions handed down by a Paris court in 2021 in connection with weight-loss pill Mediator. At least…
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