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On Tuesday night in Paris, the French National Assembly approved a draft constitutional reform aimed at widening the electorate for New Caledonia's provincial elections, a move that some local leaders fear will dilute the Kanak vote against a backdrop of serious violence in the Pacific archipelago. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron talks to people who attended the ceremony to enshrine abortion in the French Constitution, at the end of the event at Paris' Place Vendôme. IMAGES (COMPLETES VIDI34KW4QY_EN + VIDI34KX97B_EN + VIDI34KZ6UV_EN)
Several hundred people gather in Paris to protest after the triumph of the far-right National Rally (RN) in the European elections, which garnered around 32% of the vote in France, prompting Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly IMAGES
French MPs unanimously approved a first reading of an environmentalist-backed bill to restrict the manufacture and sale of products containing PFAS or forever chemicals, although kitchen utensils were excluded from its scope after a major campaign by manufacturers this week. IMAGES
"This constitutional revision will make this tragedy irreversible for the weakest members of society," says Marie-Lys Pellissier, spokesperson for the "March for Life", at an anti-abortion rights demonstration of about fifty activists near Port-Royal as the Senate prepared to vote on enshrining abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES
The French National Assembly widely rejected the first motion of no confidence tabled against new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. The motion received 124 votes out of the 289 required. IMAGES