— Champagne sales have lost some of their pop in 2023 following a few record-breaking years of sales spurred by the end of Covid-19 lockdowns. Comité Champagne, a trade association representing more than 16,000 winegrowers and 320 Champagne houses, said in a new report that total shipments last yea»»»

New Delhi [India], November 12 (ANI): India is set to host the 33rd Conference of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) Regional Commission for Asia and the Pacific, scheduled from November 13-16, 2023 here in the national capital.Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying»»»

On 22 June, after extensive negotiations, Zambia made a breakthrough and reached a $6.3bn debt restructuring deal with its official creditors. This landmark achievement effectively reduces the country’s debt burden by around 40% – a significant step towards restoring long-term debt sustainability a»»»

PARIS :Sales at the world's top luxury group LVMH rose by 17 per cent in the second quarter, with a sharp rebound in China helping to offset a decline in the United States, where inflation and economic turbulence have dented demand for high-end goods. The French company, whose 75 brands include fas»»»

The incident raises questions about the competence of staff at Kualanamu International Airport in North Sumatra, which has pretensions of becoming a regional travel hub. How did a 38-year-old woman plunge to her death through an elevator shaft and lay for three days undiscovered at an Indonesian in»»»

PARIS, May 8 — “My mum doesn’t agree with what I do here: at home, we don’t eat like this,” laughs Alan Geaam, the first Lebanese chef to earn a Michelin star in Paris. The self-taught chef, who fled his country’s civil war in 1999, nonetheless believes that promoting Lebanon’s culinary riches mean»»»

By Majd Othman KUWAIT: As part of the celebrations of Francophonie Month, and in cooperation with the Contemporary Art Platform (CAP), the French Institute of Kuwait hosted on Sunday a lecture under the title “Influence of Arabic Literature on Western Literature of the Middle Ages”, presented by Fr»»»

MADRID, Spain, 22nd February 2023 (WAM) -- The report "Global Landscape of Renewable Energy Finance 2023" reveals that global investment in energy transition technologies last year—including energy efficiency—reached US$1.3 trillion. It set a new record-high, up 19 percent from 2021 investment leve»»»

MADRID (Sputnik) - Around 250,000 people marched through the streets of Madrid on Sunday demanding that the Spanish government increase the country's health care budget, improve working conditions and expand the staff. "Today in Madrid we are standing up again and declaring that we do not accept th»»»

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin also says the attacker injured several people at the station but his tweet gives no other details on their number or the extent of the injuries. He said the attacker was “rapidly neutralized." French media are reporting that people have been stabbed at a Paris trai»»»

18 years after the release of Princess Diaries 2, Disney has announced that the third sequel of the movie is currently in progress. Many people on Twitter cannot control their excitement and eagerly hope to see the old cast - Anne, Julie, and Chris together. The lovers' couple of Anne Hathaway and »»»

The Kashmiri journalist was prevented from flying to the US to receive the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Kashmiri journalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo, who was prevented from flying to the United States by Indian authorities to collect her Pulitzer Prize, told Al Jazeera she is “heartbroken”. It was the se»»»

AMMAN — Senate President Faisal Fayez on Thursday met with his French counterpart Gerard Larcher in Paris to discuss enhancing cooperation in parliamentary and economic areas. The meeting also covered means to increase joint investments and cooperation in overcoming the effects of the COVID-19 pand»»»

Paris: Despite the cost of living fears, heatwaves, and wildfires, Summer 2022 is looking to have been good for the French tourism industry as local and foreign holidaymakers swarmed the country after the COVID-19 pandemic rattled the sector for two years. Tourism Minister Olivia Gregoire told a ne»»»

SUVA, July 15 (Reuters) - The pro-independence president of New Caledonia, a French overseas territory, said he didn't want New Caledonia to be used as a "trojan horse" in the Pacific islands, amid global power jostling for influence in the region. New Caledonia attended the Pacific Islands Forum m»»»

KARACHI: A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist from Indian-occupied Kashmir, Sana Irshad Mattoo, was barred by immigration officials at the New Delhi airport from travelling to France on Saturday “without any reasons”, The Indian Express reported. In a tweet, the 28-year-old journalist said she »»»

NEW DELHI: A Pulitzer Prize-winning Kashmiri photojournalist said on Saturday that she was stopped by Indian immigration authorities from flying to Paris without giving any reason. In a tweet, Sanna Irshad Mattoo said she was scheduled to travel from New Delhi to Paris for a book launch and photogr»»»

Air quality improved in the Paris region in 2021, but its 12 million inhabitants are still subject to pollution levels above World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations, with thousands of premature deaths, Airparif said Tuesday. Air pollution is the cause of "serious chronic pathologies, in par»»»

The share of global wealth of the world’s richest people soared at a record pace during the Covid pandemic, a report on inequality showed on Tuesday. Since 1995, the slice held by billionaires has risen from one percent to three percent, according to the World Inequality Report. “This increase was »»»

The share of global wealth of the world's richest people soared at a record pace during the Covid pandemic, a report on inequality showed Tuesday. Since 1995, the slice held by billionaires has risen from one percent to three percent, according to the World Inequality Report. "This increase was exa»»»

The share of wealth owned by the world's richest people soared during the Covid pandemic, a major study on inequality has found. The World Inequality Report said that 2020 saw the steepest increase in billionaires' wealth on record. Meanwhile, 100 million people sank into extreme poverty, the repor»»»

PARIS: French authorities said Thursday they had confirmed the first case of the Covid-19 Omicron variant on the mainland, a man in his 50s who recently returned from Nigeria. The ARS health agency for the Paris region said the man had not been vaccinated against the virus and showed no Covid-19 sy»»»

SANTIAGO - Presidential, parliamentary, and regional elections began in Chile on Sunday with high attendance at the polls in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic. The elections are taking place in a particularly polarized environment, and the elected president will govern the country hit by high inflatio»»»

Before 2050 is ending, the EU states need to fulfil a commitment to negative carbon emissions, with an intermediary 2030 climate target of at least 55% reduction of net emissions as compared to 1990, on which the states agreed and translated into a European Climate Law one year ago. Hopefully, in 3»»»

As world leaders inside the Cop26 conference centre in Glasgow boasted about pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions and end deforestation, indigenous delegates gathered across the river Clyde to commemorate activists killed for trying to protect the planet from corporate greed and government ina»»»

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 11: The Kuwaiti Cabinet called on citizens and residents, during its weekly meeting at Al-Seif Palace on Monday, to continue adherence to the health precautions. At the onset of the meeting, chaired by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, the Cabin»»»

KUWAIT, Oct 11 (KUNA) -- The Kuwaiti Cabinet called on citizens and residents, during its weekly meeting at Al-Seif Palace on Monday, to continue adherence to the health precautions.At the onset of the meeting, chaired by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, the Ca»»»

ADB will further expand its private sector operations in Bangladesh and continue to leverage a high level of co-financing with other development partners Bangladesh Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal and ADB Country Director for Bangladesh Manmohan Parkash launched a new ADB Country partnership str»»»

Meeting this week virtually at the 18th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), 54 African Environment Ministers agreed to step-up the continent’s response to accelerate the green and sustainable recovery programme to tackle the triple crisis of climate change, los»»»

Hospitals, care homes and health centres have suspended around 3,000 workers across France for failing to comply with mandatory COVID vaccination, the government said on Thursday, as countries around Europe weigh how far to go to combat the pandemic. While Italy is set to announce later on Thursday»»»

Paris: The slow rollout of coronavirus vaccines will cost the global economy $2.3 trillion in lost output, a report released Wednesday found. The Economist Intelligence Unit's study found that emerging and developing economies, whose vaccine rollouts are far behind those of wealthier countries, wil»»»

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first instalment of their sixth assessment report. As expected, the report makes for bleak reading. It found all regions of the world are already experiencing the impacts of climate change, and its warming projections rang»»»

French Health Minister Olivier Veran said Tuesday that new Covid-19 infections were increasing at an unprecedented rate due to the Delta variant, after 18,000 cases were reported for the previous 24 hours. Referring to the latest figures while speaking in parliament, Veran said: "That means we have»»»

PARIS: The number of new cases and deaths from the coronavirus pandemic continued to rise this week in every region of the world except Latin America. Here is the global state of play according to a specialised AFP database. On the rise again The average number of new daily Covid-19 cases globally »»»

The more transmissible delta variant of COVID-19 now represents around 40% of new infections in France, government spokesperson Gabriel Attal said Wednesday. Attal warned that if allowed to roam freely and grow into a fourth wave, the highly contagious variant could jeopardize summer activities. At»»»

[By: International Registries, Inc.] The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) achieved a ranking in the top three on the white list of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) as reflected in the Paris MoU’s Annual Port State Control Report, released 1 July 2021. Neither of the other two large»»»

“COVID-19 created unprecedented challenges for our owners, operators, ships’ crews, and fleet operations team. In the face of severely restricted crew changes, the inability to board vessels, and altered inspections and maintenance schedules, our owners and operators did a remarkable job ensuring s»»»

Image source AFP Image caption Knowing the first case of infection is a key to understanding how the virus has spread in France A French doctor said that a patient who had been diagnosed with a former pneumonia, near Paris, on December 27, was already infected with the emerging coronavirus. This me»»»

Sustainable investing has seen considerable growth over the last five years and shows no sign of slowing down, as awareness around crucial sustainability topics continues to grow. We have seen a steady pace in sustainable investment asset growth in Europe, North America and Australia. And for Asia,»»»

Iconic French brand to open more stores in China after registering double-digit growth The Covid-19 pandemic may have hurt some businesses in China, but it sure didn’t dent the consumer electronics sector, as stay-at-home consumers purchased cutting-edge digital products to keep themselves entertai»»»

In a message to the annual session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Secretary-General António Guterres underlined the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as the blueprint for a strong recovery, leaving no one behind. #UNSG @antonioguterres shares statement»»»

Morocco follows Qatar and the UAE in leading the MENA region for Effective Energy Transmission, according to the WEF global ranking. Spread the loveRabat – Morocco ranked the third-best Arab nation as part of the World Economic Forum’s Fostering Effective Energy Transmission 2021 Report, published »»»

A new report shows China was the only G20 country to see a significant jump in coal production last year. At the same time, European nations are shuttering coal plants at record rates. China generated over 53% of the world's total coal-fired power in 2020, according to data published by the energy »»»

Some 13 million people will be quarantined again, after the government of President Sebastián Piñera decided to confine more than 70% of the population, as the number of people infected by the COVID-19 virus has increased by 36% in the last two weeks, according to the Ministry of Health. Since the »»»

Hundreds of people camped out in a square in Paris on Thursday to protest against living conditions for migrants and asylum seekers. The Place de la Republique was full of people pitching up tents shortly before the night-time curfew started in the French capital. Asylum seekers, charity workers an»»»

The coronavirus situation is worsening in the greater Paris region where hospitals are under immense strain, the director general of the AP-HP Paris hospitals organisation Martin Hirsch said on Wednesday, Reuters reported. "The virus is not under control. There are as many patients in intensive car»»»

PARIS. KAZINFORM - Cross-border travelers from France to Germany will be required to produce proof of a negative COVID-19 antigen or PCR test taken within the last 48 hours and an electronic declaration on their purpose of travel from March 2, according to new health measures to curb rising cases o»»»

New virus variants are spreading fast in multiple regions of France, causing local authorities to order tougher mask rules and a curfew crackdown around the English Channel coast, and prompting growing calls for a new lockdown in the east. Although France closed its borders with Britain in December»»»

Sao Paulo, Brazil - Brazil's star footballer Neymar is at the centre of a new controversy after several Brazilian media reported that he's organising a huge New Year's Eve party despite the coronavirus pandemic, a claim his lawyers denied. Acelmo Goes, a columnist for the O Globo newspaper, wrote t»»»

(Reuters) – When Elena Lorenzo’s 86-year-old sister Rosario fell in the middle of the night in her home in Spain’s northern Galicia region and her husband struggled to assist her, they knew it was time to get help. But a nursing home was out of the question. “There had been talk of a nursing home, »»»

Blue economy may contribute substantially to post-COVID-19 recovery, as well as to the ecological transition in the spirit of the Paris Agreement and the Green Deal, stated on Monday the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bogdan Aurescu, on the occasion of his participation in the opening session of the »»»

Paris police destroyed an informal migrant camp outside the Stade de France yesterday, bussing residents to temporary shelters in the region. It is the 65th time Paris police have dismantled a migrant camp in the city in the last five years, only for new ones to spring up. Police said yesterday's o»»»

This was an opportunity to discuss regional and international issues of common interest between the EU and countries of Central Asia, and advance region-to-region cooperation on various issues, including connectivity, digitalisation, sustainable energy, security, human rights and the rule of law. D»»»

Covid-19 was circulating in Italy from as early as September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute of Milan has found. The World Health Organisation officially announced the new coronavirus and covid-19, the respiratory disease it causes, after the outbreak was first reported in Wuhan, in »»»

The French government will return the night curfew to Paris and possibly the Ile-de-France region, a cabinet spokesman said. Details will be announced later today. French supermarkets will have to close their stands with "non-essential" products from today, Prime Minister Jean Castex was quoted as »»»

The exodus was unprecedented as Parisians poured towards the countryside to sit out France’s second lockdown of the year. Officials noted a record 733km (455 miles) of traffic jams in the city region as residents flocked towards their second homes or to families in the provinces before restrictions»»»

closeVideoPARIS – Virus patients now occupy more than half of France’s intensive care units, and some doctors are urging tougher restrictions after another record jump in confirmed infections. Dr. Jean-Francois Delfraissy, head of the government’s virus advisory body, expressed surprise Monday at t»»»

PARIS- Several more French departments are to enter red-alert status over the coronavirus pandemic in coming days, which means that they will have to impose curfews, the government said on Wednesday. Spokesman Gabriel Attal also told a news conference the government was proposing to extend a state »»»

Madrid's regional authorities are evaluating whether a curfew is needed to curb a new wave of coronavirus in one of Europe's hotspots, the area's top health official said on Tuesday (Oct 20). "A curfew would mean ... that at some hours there's no mobility, like France has done for example," Enrique»»»

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the EURONAVAL organisers have been fighting against all odds to maintain the exhibition as a face-to-face event at the Bourget exhibition centre. In light of the upsurge in the number of COVID-19 contaminations in France during the month of September, t»»»

– A hat-trick from superstar Neymar enabled Brazil to turn the tide against Peru and win Tuesday’s World Cup qualifying match 4-2 at Estadio Nacional in Lima. Brazil trailed the hosts after Andre Carrillo opened the scoring in the fifth minute, but they equalized with Neymar’s first goal in the 27t»»»

The proportion of intensive care unit beds in the Paris region occupied by Covid-19 patients reached 40 percent on Tuesday, while France recorded 10,489 new coronavirus cases. This figure brings France's seven-day moving average of daily new cases to just over 12,000, health ministry data showed. T»»»

PARIS (AP) — French authorities placed the Paris region on maximum virus alert on Monday, banning festive gatherings and requiring all bars to close but allowing restaurants to remain open, as numbers of infections increased rapidly. Paris police prefect Didier Lallement announced the new restricti»»»

Food loss and waste is an ethical outrage. In a world with enough food to feed all people, everywhere, 690 million people continue to go hungry and 3 billion cannot afford a healthy diet. Food loss and waste also squander natural resources – water, soil, and energy, not to mention human labor and t»»»

The precise mapping of the areas will be disclosed on Sunday evening. In Paris, it will involve tourist sites, open markets, areas around stations, banks of the Seine and of Canal Saint-Martin and other places where social distancing is difficult, police of the French capital said in a Twitter mess»»»

THOUSANDS of Brits heading to Brittany for summer holidays were today warned about a sharp Coronavirus spike that could signal a new lockdown in the hugely popular French region. At least 110 new cases of Covid-19 have been detected since July 10, and the disease’s Reproduction – or R – value rose »»»

A French suburb Valenton has elected Turkish origin Metin Yavuz as its mayor on Sunday. According to unofficial results, Yavuz received 52.37% of the votes, in the southeastern suburb 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) from the center of Paris.Yavuz as an independent candidate defeated the French Communist »»»

A study led by the Pasteur Institute says a mere 4.4% of the French population – or 2.8 million people – have been infected by the novel coronavirus, much higher than the official count of cases but way too low to achieve so-called “herd immunity”. In a study published on Wednesday in the journal S»»»

French Police have seized 140,000 masks that the Government had ordered for health workers, but which were later stolen to be sold illegally. Officials said they caught a businessman unloading the masks from a truck into a house in St Denis, North of Paris, Last month. In France, the price of masks»»»

Korean Air has delayed the resumption of its nonstop service between Seoul and Zagreb by a further three months, until September, as a result of the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. The airline initially planned to reinstate operations between the two cities in June, however, bookings have now been c»»»

One by one, elderly residents of French nursing homes are going into forced isolation into their rooms. Their caregivers are walling themselves in as well. They are running out of body bags. But no one knows for sure how many people have become sick. Governments in Europe's hardest-hit countries — »»»

The coronavirus outbreak in France is “very worrying” and “deteriorating very fast”, the head of the country’s health service said Monday.”The number of cases double every three days,” Jerome Salomon said on France Inter. “I want our citizens to realise that there are people who are sick, who are i»»»