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France lawmakers urge changes to counter dwindling births

Image The Mercury - Manhatten Knasas 12 Feb 2026
French lawmakers Wednesday urged longer paid parental leave and more financial support to make it easier for people to have more children, after deaths last year exceeded births in France for the first time in decades ... .
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Internal conflicts and resignations plague France's 2030 Winter Olympics preparations

Newsday 12 Feb 2026
PARIS — With all eyes on the Milan Cortina Olympics, the organization of the Winter Games in France in four years' time is faltering ... deliver an event of major importance” for France.
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France seeks probe after diplomat cited in Epstein files

Image Lebanon Democrat 12 Feb 2026
France's foreign minister has requested a probe into a French diplomat who corresponded with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and who another envoy said was investigated while at the United Nations over child sex abuse websites ....
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France's Julia Simon and Lou Jeanmonnot take gold and silver in Olympic biathlon

Newsday 12 Feb 2026
Simon missed only one target and completed the course in 41 minutes, 15 seconds ... Lou Jeanmonnot, of France, gestures after the women's 15-kilometer individual biathlon race at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Anterselva, Italy, Wednesday, Feb ... Credit.
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'Exhausting' off-field issues hang over Wales before France clash

Yahoo Daily News 12 Feb 2026
A Wales side low on confidence welcome an in-form France to Cardiff on Sunday in the Six Nations, with rugby in the country rarely having sunk to such troubling depths.
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France duo Beaudry, Cizeron capture Olympic ice dance gold

The Daily Republic 12 Feb 2026
"I admit it's quite dizzying when you look back just one year ago, when we set ourselves this almost impossible challenge, and God knows we had obstacles, but that makes it all the more special," an emotional Cizeron told France TV.
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Federal Reserve governor Stephen Miran said he still thinks there is an argument to be ...

Wall Street Journal 12 Feb 2026
Federal Reserve governor Stephen Miran said he still thinks there is an argument to be made in favor of cutting interest rates, after the better-than-expected January jobs report ... .
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Anti-drug activist campaigns in French election despite threats, 2 brothers lost to gang violence

Newsday 12 Feb 2026
With cocaine trafficking at an all-time high in France, Kessaci, now a law student, said he wants to get involved in local politics to take on drug dealers.
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Marseille coach De Zerbi leaves after humiliating 5-0 loss to PSG

Newsday 12 Feb 2026
MARSEILLE, FranceMarseille coach Roberto De Zerbi is leaving the French league club in the wake of a 5-0 thrashing at the hands of PSG in French soccer biggest game ... France, Saturday, Jan.
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Gisèle Pelicot publicly recounts harrowing discovery of her husband's rape crimes

Newsday 12 Feb 2026
PARIS — Gisèle Pelicot's brain froze as the French police officer revealed the unthinkable. “Fifty-three men had come to our house to rape me,” she recalls him telling her ... 2, 2020 — the day when her world fell apart ... Sign up ... Newsday ... 0.17 ... ....
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ANZ Bank Shares Enjoy Best Day Since 2020 as Cost Cuts Show

Wall Street Journal 12 Feb 2026
SYDNEY—ANZ Group shares are on course for their best day since 2020 after the country’s fourth-largest lender cut its first-quarter costs by more than analysts had expected ... .
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