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Behind the calming image of legal CBD in France lies a darker reality: products adulterated with synthetic cannabinoids have triggered hundreds of poisonings since early 2024. Anxiety attacks, hallucinations, and heart palpitations result from chemicals imported from countries like China or India, mimicking THC but with stronger, unpredictable, ...
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France Football Kylian Mbappé National team
Kylian Mbappe is receiving treatment for a "small niggle" in his right ankle after meeting up with his international teammates ahead of the latest round of 2026 World Cup qualifiers, France coach Didier Deschamps said Monday. The France captain sustained the knock at the end of Real Madrid's 3-1 La Liga victory over Villarreal on Saturday, ...
This is Beirut, 06/10 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Paris Fashion Week Chanel Matthieu Blazy Luxury France Culture
Franco-Belgian designer Matthieu Blazy is set to make his debut in one of the most coveted jobs in the fashion industry on Monday when he sends out models for Chanel for the first time. The 41-year-old, who was appointed last December, will unveil his Spring/Summer 2026 collection at Paris Fashion Week in the clear highlight of the season, if not ...
This is Beirut, 06/10 11:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
France Emmanuel Macron Government
France's President Emmanuel Macron on Monday accepted Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu's resignation just hours after unveiling his cabinet, the presidency said, plunging the European nation further into political deadlock. France's President Emmanuel Macron named Lecornu, a former defence minister, to the post last month. But the largely ...
This is Beirut, 03/10 22:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine Drone France Antoni Lallican Death
A drone killed a French photojournalist on assignment in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region on Friday, two media unions and a Ukrainian military unit said. Ukraine's Fourth Armoured Brigade and France's President Emmanuel Macron said a Russian drone had killed the photojournalist, Antoni Lallican. Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Ivanchenko was wounded ...
This is Beirut, 02/10 20:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hamas Palestine France Gaza US peace plan
France's top diplomat said Thursday that Hamas had lost its fight in Gaza and must accept "surrender" under a plan put forward by US President Donald Trump. The Palestinian militant group is currently weighing its response to the Trump plan, which has been publicly endorsed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Hamas bears a very heavy ...
This is Beirut, 02/10 15:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Film Trial Depardieu France TV France Culture
A French court was Thursday examining accusations by actor Gerard Depardieu that a 2023 television report falsely portrayed him as making sexual comments about a young girl. Depardieu, whose prolific film and television career includes 1990 comedy Green Card and Netflix series Marseille, is the highest-profile figure caught up in France's ...
This is Beirut, 01/10 20:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Luxury Paris Fashion Week Jonathan Anderson Dior France Culture
Northern Irish designer Jonathan Anderson drew a standing ovation from a celeb-packed crowd as he launched a bold first women's ready-to-wear collection for Dior on Wednesday during Paris Fashion Week. The show, held in the Tuileries Garden in central Paris, was one of the most highly anticipated moments of the Spring-Summer 2026 Fashion Week, ...
This is Beirut, 01/10 20:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
France has detained two senior crew members of a tanker linked to Russia, which data showed was off the Danish coast last month during mysterious drone flights, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The Boracay, a Benin-flagged vessel blacklisted by the European Union for being part of Russia's sanction-busting "shadow fleet" of ageing oil ...
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Series Paris France U.S. Culture Art
Emily is no longer the only doe-eyed American in Paris: Isabel "Belly" Conklin, lead character in global TV phenomenon The Summer I Turned Pretty, has also moved to the French capital, burnishing its reputation for romance and escapism. The third series of the show ranked first in 120 countries on Amazon Prime when it kicked off in July — ...
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Paris Fashion Week Louis Vuitton Luxury France Culture
Flouncy skirts, sculptural ruffles and exaggerated Peter Pan collars flowed along the catwalk at Louis Vuitton's Spring/Summer 2026 show during Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday. With stylistic influences from the 1960s, models strutted down a catwalk set up in the former apartments of Queen Anne of Austria in the Louvre, serenaded by an airy jazz ...
This is Beirut, 30/09 20:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hamas France Jean-Noël Barrot Israel
Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas “has no excuse to reject the proposal made to it” under the plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Tuesday. “Hamas is now completely isolated, categorically disavowed; it must face the reality: it has lost,” he told France Inter radio, ...