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Environment Minister Francois de Rugy. (Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes)
CHRISTOPHE CASTANER

French government yields on fuel price hikes after weeks of protest

An increase scheduled for January 1, was "scrapped for the year 2019" in its entirety, Environment Minister Francois de Rugy announced on BFM TV

  • Adam Plowright
  • Christophe Schmidt
4 min read
French rescue workers are seen near rubble after buildings collapsed in central Marseille, France, November 5 2018. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)
BUILDING COLLAPSE

Anger mounts after deadly Marseille building collapse

The structural risks of the buildings and others like them were widely known, but that city officials did little when alerted about them

  • Olivier Lucazeau
4 min read