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Sep 25 2025 // Fabrice Lehmann caught sight of his target as he left his suburban Paris home, dressed for work. He began tailing him, trying to blend in with the commuters heading into the city.A private detective since 1994, Lehmann has...
Sep 9 2025 // France’s parliament brought down the government on Monday over its plans to tame the ballooning national debt, deepening a political crisis that is weakening the euro zone’s second-largest economy.Lawmakers...
Oct 7 2025 // The captain of an oil tanker that authorities in France have detained off the country’s Atlantic coast and which President Emmanuel Macron has linked to Russia will go on trial in February over the crew’s...
Aug 11 2025 // Electricite de France SA was forced to shut four atomic reactors after a swarm of jellyfish clogged up filter drums at its Gravelines power plant.The “massive and unforeseen” presence of jellyfish in the filter...
Oct 20 2025 // The world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris was shut on Sunday after several pieces of jewelry were stolen in a robbery.France’s Culture Minister Rachida Dati reported the incident on her social media account, without...
Jan 24 2025 // In the moment when her world shattered three years ago, Stephanie Mistre found her 15-year-old daughter, Marie, lifeless in the bedroom where she died by suicide.“I went from light to darkness in a fraction of a...
Aug 7 2025 // French firefighters spent a third day tackling the country’s worst wildfire in more than seven decades, hoping to bring it under control by Friday as lower wind speeds reduce the intensity of the blaze.After starting...
Dec 18 2024 // Texas Governor Greg Abbott has a new ambition for the Lone Star State: surpassing France as one of the world’s largest economies.Abbott predicted that economic output in Texas would soon exceed that of the struggling...
Aug 20 2025 // Coalition, the San Francisco-based cyber managing general agent and cybersecurity firm, announced the launch of its Active Cyber Insurance in France through its subsidiary, Coalition Insurance Solutions GmbH.French...
Jun 26 2025 // France is ordering an extra 800,000 cars with Takata airbags to be taken off the road, two weeks after a woman died in the northeastern town of Reims from injuries related to a faulty airbag.The move is the latest twist in...
Sep 8 2025 // French prosecutors stepped up an investigation into Royal Philips NV for potentially causing danger to human health with breathing devices, tasking a magistrate with deeper probing powers to lead the case.Paris prosecutors...
Aug 8 2025 // Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has signed a definitive agreement to sell its stake in Diot-Siaci, a Paris-based corporate insurance brokerage group, to French private equity firm Ardian.Financial details of the deal...
Aug 6 2025 // France’s biggest wildfire in about two decades ravaged vineyards and farms in southern France, leaving one person dead and forcing residents to flee.About 2,100 firefighters, assisted by aircraft, are working to...
Jan 22 2025 // The European Union is set to scale back its highly contested ESG reporting requirements, as France prepares to unveil a formal proposal seeking to limit the scope of the regulatory framework.The French government is...
Oct 31 2025 // Five more people have been arrested in the Louvre heist case, the Paris prosecutor said Thursday, after two alleged members of the group that stole jewels from the museum were charged.Authorities linked one of the new...
Sep 17 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Arch Insurance and DUAL Europe.A summary of these new hires follows here. Arch Insurance Taps AXA XL’s Martins as Head of Executive Assurance,...
Mar 12 2025 // French publishers and authors are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for copyright infringement, accusing the tech giant of using their books to train its generative artificial intelligence model without authorization.SNE, the...
Sep 22 2025 // Ardonagh Europe, part of The Ardonagh Group and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, has agreed to acquire Groupe Leader Insurance (GLI), one of the top 10 wholesale and multi-specialist brokers in France.Founded in 2003 by...
Jun 25 2025 // French investigators on Tuesday ordered Tesla to stop what they called “deceptive business practices” or face thousands of euros in fines.Investigators at the finance ministry’s Competition, Consumer...
Dec 12 2024 // A family office backed by members of the Hermes fortune are among the likely buyers of French insurer Albingia, in an investment that signals a goal to diversify their wealth away from luxury.Krefeld Invest, the family...