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Culture Our pick of Brussels’ best activities – online and off – for the coming week La Monnaie continues to livestream concerts and operas scheduled for this season. Up this week, it’s young Paris versus old Vienna as the house’s symphony orchestra offers both Mozart’s Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra and Symphony Nr 39. Carrying on the Mozart series is Der Schauspieldirector ( The Impresario), his wonderfully amusing take on the vanity within the opera world itself. La Monnaie’s very reasonably priced tickets give access to the recordings for a week. Concert 21 Februar...

France's Macron aims to tackle tobacco and alcohol in 10-year cancer plan Reuters 2/4/2021 By Benoit Van Overstraeten PARIS, Feb 4 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron wants the generation that will turn 20 in 2030 to be the first tobacco-free one, and also promised on Thursday to do more to warn about the dangers of alcohol, as part of a 10-year strategy to fight cancer. Macron told the French Cancer National Institute - a public entity coordinating scientific research on cancer - that the government would dedicate 1.7 billion euros ($2 billion) to the cause over the next five year...

UPDATE 1-Coronavirus variant accounts for up to 20% of cases in Paris - hospital executive Reuters 2/2/2021 (Adds details, quotes, context) By Sudip Kar-Gupta and Benoit Van Overstraeten PARIS, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The highly contagious variant of the coronavirus first detected in Britain now accounts for up to 20% of infections in the wider Paris region, a leading hospital executive said on Tuesday, calling for more restrictive measures to rein in the disease. France's main COVID-19 indicators have reached two-month highs on average on Monday but the government, who will hold a dedicated COVI...

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read PARIS, Jan 26 (Reuters) - French health authorities reported 22,086 new coronavirus infections over the previous 24 hours on Tuesday, up sharply from Monday’s 4,240 and close to last Tuesday’s level of 23,608, adding to fears of a third national lockdown. The number of people being treated in intensive care units (ICUs) for COVID-19 was also up, at 3,081, staying above the key 3,000 threshold for the second day running. A drop below 3,000 led the government to relax the second lockdown on Dec. 15. France’s cumulative total of cases now stands at 3,079,943, th...

French spirits group Remy Cointreau beat third-quarter sales forecasts on Friday and said it was confident that demand for its premium cognac in China and the United States would fuel a profit recovery this year.