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No third lockdown in France, President Emmanuel Macron says By French President Emmanuel Macron has decided not to impose a third lockdown in France The decision was made against expectation and advice of his senior-most scientific aides Macron instead tightened existing restrictions on travel and shopping PARIS: The President of France Emmanuel Macron on Saturday decided not to impose a third national lockdown to contain Covid-19, a move which went against expectations and the advice of his ...

France not to impose third COVID-19 lockdown: Emmanuel Macron World French President Emmanuel Macron. Photo: File PARIS: The President of  France Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said that his country will not go into a lockdown for the third time to control the coronavirus cases in the country and instead focused on implementing safety protocols.  The move went against expectations and the advice of his most senior scientific advisers. The 43-year-old leader opted to tighten existing restrictions...

French President Emmanuel Macron is seen on a television screen as he speaks during a televised address CREDIT: LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGESFrench President Emmanuel Macron has gambled by not imposing a third national lockdown to contain Covid-19 — against expectations and the advice of his most senior scientific advisers. The 43-year-old leader opted to tighten existing restrictions on travel and shopping at a cabinet meeting on Friday after a week in which his government appeared to b...

Macron Gambles By Saying Non To Lockdown By Adam PLOWRIGHT and Jeremy MAROT 01/31/21 AT 10:07 AM French President Emmanuel Macron has gambled by not imposing a third national lockdown to contain Covid-19 -- against expectations and the advice of senior scientific advisers. The 43-year-old leader opted to tighten existing restrictions on travel and shopping at a cabinet meeting on Friday after a week in which his government appeared to be preparing the public for new stay-at-home orders. The...

  He called it a revolution, after he had given up power to a democratic government following a first coup. Dr. Hilla Limann took over the reins in 1979, after winning an election in the Third Republic. Two years after, Rawlings reclaimed power, after complaining that the democratically-elected government had failed to correct the wrongs and evils for which he organized the first coup d’etat in 1979, June 4. During this revolution, he dismissed the government machinery (Executive) of the Thi...

The story of Europes last great siege, when Parisians swapped haute cuisine for stewed elephant The siege of Paris, the brutal denouement to the Franco-Prussian war, ended 150 years ago 28 January 2021 • 9:56am Anything edible was considered for consumption, including cats, dogs, and the zoo animals from the Jardin des Plantes Credit: Getty It was 150 years ago this week that Parisians could, at last, look forward to eating something other than cats, rats, dogs and camel rôti à l’anglaise...

Here’s what to read from the left and the right | Column Here’s some interesting commentary from the opposite poles of the political spectrum.   Published Jan. 24 We live in a partisan age, and our news habits can reinforce our own perspectives. Consider this an effort to broaden our collective outlook with essays beyond the range of our typical selections. FROM THE LEFT The context, from the author: Polarization, anger, division — French history offers a warning for what migh...

9 min read The claim by the electoral commission (INEC) that it will not obey an order of the appeal court, on the de-registration of political parties, because it contradicts another order of the same court, is based on a false premise, PREMIUM TIMES can report following an extensive review of the two judgements. Last August, the Court of Appeal, in a suit by 31 political parties who had been deregistered by INEC, ruled that the de-registration was null and void because the ele...

The Atlantic Polarization, anger, division—French history offers a warning for what might come after Donald Trump. Getty / Katie Martin / The Atlantic A Jewish military officer wrongfully convicted of treason. A years-long psychodrama that permanently polarized an entire society—communities, friends, even families. A politics of anger and emotion designed to insult the very notion of truth. A divide that only grew with time. A reconciliation that never was. A frenzied right wing that turned...

Ed Rossmann Special to The Citizen Recent events in Washington reminded me of something that happened in Paris 80-some years ago, which may be of interest today. On the evening of Feb. 6, 1934, a right-wing mob of several thousand people on Concord Square prepared to assault the Chamber of Deputies, seat of the National Assembly, the French parliament. The immediate cause was the Stavisky scandal, in which a Jewish-Ukrainian broker with ties to the government had sold worthless bond...