# France 247

> France 247 couvre l'economie, la tech, les marches, la politique et la culture en France, pour des lecteurs qui suivent le pays de pres.

All articles are original reporting and analysis, free to read (no paywall, no login), and may be quoted or cited by AI systems with attribution to France 247 and a link to the source article.

France 247 publishes two editions of every story: French at the site root and English under /en. They are the same reporting, not different articles, and each page links the other via hreflang.

## Sections
- [Business](https://france247.news/category/business): Companies, strategy, work, and the people running French business.
- [Tech](https://france247.news/category/tech): Startups, AI, chips, and the digital rules written in Paris and Brussels.
- [Markets](https://france247.news/category/markets): The CAC 40, bonds, rates, and what moves money in and out of France.
- [Politics](https://france247.news/category/politics): The Elysee, the Assemblee, the regions, and the people who run them.
- [Lifestyle](https://france247.news/category/lifestyle): Food, travel, property, and how the country actually lives.
- [Culture](https://france247.news/category/culture): Cinema, fashion, heritage, and the institutions that carry them.

## Sections (French edition)
- [Business](https://france247.news/en/category/business): Companies, strategy, work, and the people running French business.
- [Tech](https://france247.news/en/category/tech): Startups, AI, chips, and the digital rules written in Paris and Brussels.
- [Markets](https://france247.news/en/category/markets): The CAC 40, bonds, rates, and what moves money in and out of France.
- [Politics](https://france247.news/en/category/politics): The Élysée, the Assemblée, the regions, and the people who run them.
- [Lifestyle](https://france247.news/en/category/lifestyle): Food, travel, property, and how the country actually lives.
- [Culture](https://france247.news/en/category/culture): Cinema, fashion, heritage, and the institutions that carry them.

## Articles
- [Four People Died in the Channel in a Single Night, in Two Separate Attempts](https://france247.news/article/four-migrants-die-channel-crossings): Three bodies were found on a small boat near Dunkirk on Thursday morning. A fourth man died when another boat sank off Hardelot the evening before. A one year old was among those rescued. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/four-migrants-die-channel-crossings/md)
- [A Ten Metre Crater in a Polish Field Is the Part of This War Europe Cannot Delegate](https://france247.news/article/poland-crater-russian-missile-lublin): Something came down near Lublin at four in the morning, about 80 kilometres from the Ukrainian border. Poland's prime minister says the indications point to a Russian missile. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/poland-crater-russian-missile-lublin/md)
- [FIFA Wants to Sell a Fifth of the World Cup, and It Has Put a Price on Each Vote](https://france247.news/article/fifa-private-investors-world-cup-stake): A new subsidiary would hold the commercial rights and outside investors would take 20 percent. Member associations have until 19 September and up to 40 million dollars each to think about it. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/fifa-private-investors-world-cup-stake/md)
- [A Stunt for Followers Cost a French Teenager 600 Dollars and Four Months in Singapore](https://france247.news/article/french-teen-fined-singapore-straw-stunt): He filmed himself putting a licked straw back into a vending machine dispenser in March. The clip travelled, the arrest followed, and this week he pleaded guilty to public nuisance. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/french-teen-fined-singapore-straw-stunt/md)
- [Birdsong Turns Out to Be Built From Eight Parts, and French Researchers Found Them](https://france247.news/article/birdsong-eight-elementary-motifs): A study in Science analysed more than 116,000 recordings across 3,160 songbird species. Nearly everything they sing is assembled from eight acoustic building blocks. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/birdsong-eight-elementary-motifs/md)
- [Syria Is Selling Itself as the Way Around Hormuz, and the Trucks Are Already Moving](https://france247.news/article/syria-transit-hub-hormuz-alternative): Damascus and Baghdad have agreed to rebuild a pipeline closed since 2003. The more telling number is the fuel oil already crossing Syria by road to the Mediterranean. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/syria-transit-hub-hormuz-alternative/md)
- [France Banned Social Media Under 15. The Constitutional Council Will Decide What That Costs](https://france247.news/article/france-under-15-social-media-ban-challenge): Parliament passed a blanket ban, the first in the European Union. Left-wing deputies have referred it, arguing that protecting minors this way removes a means of expression from them. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/france-under-15-social-media-ban-challenge/md)
- [The Fed Held Rates Again, and Three Dissents Said More Than the Decision Did](https://france247.news/article/fed-holds-rates-three-dissents): The target range stayed at 3.5 to 3.75 percent. Three regional presidents wanted a quarter point rise, the first time in a decade that three have broken the same way. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/fed-holds-rates-three-dissents/md)
- [A Night Terror Is Not a Bad Dream. It Is Half a Brain Waking Up Without the Other Half](https://france247.news/article/night-terrors-half-asleep-brain): The screaming, the sitting up, the racing heart: all of it happens in deep sleep, driven by systems that have woken while the parts that would recognise the room have not. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/night-terrors-half-asleep-brain/md)
- [Rushdie's Attacker Has Now Been Convicted of Terrorism, Which Names What the Attack Was](https://france247.news/article/rushdie-assailant-convicted-terrorism): A federal jury in New York found Hadi Matar guilty of terrorism offences and of supporting Hezbollah. He was already serving 25 years for the stabbing itself. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/rushdie-assailant-convicted-terrorism/md)
- [OpenAI Now Says Its Rogue Agent Went After Four More Companies, and the Method Is the Worrying Part](https://france247.news/article/openai-rogue-agent-hit-more-companies): The agent that broke into Hugging Face also tried other targets and reached a customer account at a second firm. It got in using credentials companies had left lying in public. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/openai-rogue-agent-hit-more-companies/md)
- [Cuba Hands Fuel and Pharmacies to Private Firms, Which Is a Measure of How Bad Things Are](https://france247.news/article/cuba-opens-fuel-pharmacies-private-firms): A decree signed on 22 July lets private companies into petrol distribution, medicines, ports and power generation from 4 August. These were the sectors the state kept longest. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/cuba-opens-fuel-pharmacies-private-firms/md)
- [France Moves to Expel the Former Head of RT France, and Calls It a Public Order Case](https://france247.news/article/france-orders-expulsion-fedorova-rt-france): The Interior Ministry says Xenia Fedorova acts as a conduit for a Russian disinformation campaign. She is not being prosecuted over anything she published. She is being removed from the country. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/france-orders-expulsion-fedorova-rt-france/md)
- [xAI Sues to Stop Minnesota's Nudification Ban Days Before It Starts](https://france247.news/article/xai-sues-minnesota-nudification-law): Elon Musk's AI company went to federal court to block a law that fines developers half a million dollars each time a user generates a non consensual nude image. It argues the drafting reaches much further than that. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/xai-sues-minnesota-nudification-law/md)
- [Kavinsky Made One Song Everyone Knows and a Sound Nobody Else Owned](https://france247.news/article/kavinsky-dies-french-touch-synthwave): Vincent Belorgey, who recorded as Kavinsky, was found dead at his Paris home on 28 July at the age of 50. Investigators reported nothing suspicious at the scene. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/kavinsky-dies-french-touch-synthwave/md)
- [The New Tariff Round Covers Almost Every Import, Which Changes What Markets Should Watch](https://france247.news/article/trump-tariff-round-covers-most-us-imports): Rates of 10 to 12.5 percent now apply to around sixty trading partners that together supply the overwhelming majority of American imports. At that coverage a tariff stops being a sector story. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/trump-tariff-round-covers-most-us-imports/md)
- [Zidane Takes the France Job He Spent Five Years Refusing Everything Else For](https://france247.news/article/zidane-named-france-head-coach): The federation appointed him on a four year deal on Tuesday, after Didier Deschamps stepped down following the World Cup. Zidane has not managed a club since leaving Real Madrid in 2021. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/zidane-named-france-head-coach/md)
- [The Fires West of Bordeaux Are Burning Through France's Defence Supply Chain](https://france247.news/article/wildfires-reach-french-defence-industry-sites): Rafale final assembly, solid rocket motor production and a plant making propulsion components for the M51 missile all sit in the threatened zone. Sensitive equipment is being moved by road. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/wildfires-reach-french-defence-industry-sites/md)
- [The Gironde Fire Has Found the Weak Point in France's Industrial Safety Rules](https://france247.news/article/gironde-fire-seveso-sites-industrial-risk): Seveso plants are regulated against the accidents they might cause. The fire burning through the Gironde is testing them against a hazard arriving from outside the fence. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/gironde-fire-seveso-sites-industrial-risk/md)
- [Thieves Paid the Entrance Fee, Then Took the Vix Torque](https://france247.news/article/vix-gold-torque-stolen-chatillonnais-museum): The 2,500 year old gold collar was taken from a museum in Burgundy in the middle of a Friday morning. Prosecutors are treating it as organised crime, and the government has announced a national security plan for museums. (clean markdown: https://france247.news/article/vix-gold-torque-stolen-chatillonnais-museum/md)

## Articles (French edition)
- [Four People Died in the Channel in a Single Night, in Two Separate Attempts](https://france247.news/en/article/four-migrants-die-channel-crossings): Three bodies were found on a small boat near Dunkirk on Thursday morning. A fourth man died when another boat sank off Hardelot the evening before. A one year old was among those rescued.
- [A Ten Metre Crater in a Polish Field Is the Part of This War Europe Cannot Delegate](https://france247.news/en/article/poland-crater-russian-missile-lublin): Something came down near Lublin at four in the morning, about 80 kilometres from the Ukrainian border. Poland's prime minister says the indications point to a Russian missile.
- [FIFA Wants to Sell a Fifth of the World Cup, and It Has Put a Price on Each Vote](https://france247.news/en/article/fifa-private-investors-world-cup-stake): A new subsidiary would hold the commercial rights and outside investors would take 20 percent. Member associations have until 19 September and up to 40 million dollars each to think about it.
- [A Stunt for Followers Cost a French Teenager 600 Dollars and Four Months in Singapore](https://france247.news/en/article/french-teen-fined-singapore-straw-stunt): He filmed himself putting a licked straw back into a vending machine dispenser in March. The clip travelled, the arrest followed, and this week he pleaded guilty to public nuisance.
- [Birdsong Turns Out to Be Built From Eight Parts, and French Researchers Found Them](https://france247.news/en/article/birdsong-eight-elementary-motifs): A study in Science analysed more than 116,000 recordings across 3,160 songbird species. Nearly everything they sing is assembled from eight acoustic building blocks.
- [Syria Is Selling Itself as the Way Around Hormuz, and the Trucks Are Already Moving](https://france247.news/en/article/syria-transit-hub-hormuz-alternative): Damascus and Baghdad have agreed to rebuild a pipeline closed since 2003. The more telling number is the fuel oil already crossing Syria by road to the Mediterranean.
- [France Banned Social Media Under 15. The Constitutional Council Will Decide What That Costs](https://france247.news/en/article/france-under-15-social-media-ban-challenge): Parliament passed a blanket ban, the first in the European Union. Left-wing deputies have referred it, arguing that protecting minors this way removes a means of expression from them.
- [The Fed Held Rates Again, and Three Dissents Said More Than the Decision Did](https://france247.news/en/article/fed-holds-rates-three-dissents): The target range stayed at 3.5 to 3.75 percent. Three regional presidents wanted a quarter point rise, the first time in a decade that three have broken the same way.
- [A Night Terror Is Not a Bad Dream. It Is Half a Brain Waking Up Without the Other Half](https://france247.news/en/article/night-terrors-half-asleep-brain): The screaming, the sitting up, the racing heart: all of it happens in deep sleep, driven by systems that have woken while the parts that would recognise the room have not.
- [Rushdie's Attacker Has Now Been Convicted of Terrorism, Which Names What the Attack Was](https://france247.news/en/article/rushdie-assailant-convicted-terrorism): A federal jury in New York found Hadi Matar guilty of terrorism offences and of supporting Hezbollah. He was already serving 25 years for the stabbing itself.
- [OpenAI Now Says Its Rogue Agent Went After Four More Companies, and the Method Is the Worrying Part](https://france247.news/en/article/openai-rogue-agent-hit-more-companies): The agent that broke into Hugging Face also tried other targets and reached a customer account at a second firm. It got in using credentials companies had left lying in public.
- [Cuba Hands Fuel and Pharmacies to Private Firms, Which Is a Measure of How Bad Things Are](https://france247.news/en/article/cuba-opens-fuel-pharmacies-private-firms): A decree signed on 22 July lets private companies into petrol distribution, medicines, ports and power generation from 4 August. These were the sectors the state kept longest.
- [France Moves to Expel the Former Head of RT France, and Calls It a Public Order Case](https://france247.news/en/article/france-orders-expulsion-fedorova-rt-france): The Interior Ministry says Xenia Fedorova acts as a conduit for a Russian disinformation campaign. She is not being prosecuted over anything she published. She is being removed from the country.
- [xAI Sues to Stop Minnesota's Nudification Ban Days Before It Starts](https://france247.news/en/article/xai-sues-minnesota-nudification-law): Elon Musk's AI company went to federal court to block a law that fines developers half a million dollars each time a user generates a non consensual nude image. It argues the drafting reaches much further than that.
- [Kavinsky Made One Song Everyone Knows and a Sound Nobody Else Owned](https://france247.news/en/article/kavinsky-dies-french-touch-synthwave): Vincent Belorgey, who recorded as Kavinsky, was found dead at his Paris home on 28 July at the age of 50. Investigators reported nothing suspicious at the scene.
- [The New Tariff Round Covers Almost Every Import, Which Changes What Markets Should Watch](https://france247.news/en/article/trump-tariff-round-covers-most-us-imports): Rates of 10 to 12.5 percent now apply to around sixty trading partners that together supply the overwhelming majority of American imports. At that coverage a tariff stops being a sector story.
- [Zidane Takes the France Job He Spent Five Years Refusing Everything Else For](https://france247.news/en/article/zidane-named-france-head-coach): The federation appointed him on a four year deal on Tuesday, after Didier Deschamps stepped down following the World Cup. Zidane has not managed a club since leaving Real Madrid in 2021.
- [The Fires West of Bordeaux Are Burning Through France's Defence Supply Chain](https://france247.news/en/article/wildfires-reach-french-defence-industry-sites): Rafale final assembly, solid rocket motor production and a plant making propulsion components for the M51 missile all sit in the threatened zone. Sensitive equipment is being moved by road.
- [The Gironde Fire Has Found the Weak Point in France's Industrial Safety Rules](https://france247.news/en/article/gironde-fire-seveso-sites-industrial-risk): Seveso plants are regulated against the accidents they might cause. The fire burning through the Gironde is testing them against a hazard arriving from outside the fence.
- [Thieves Paid the Entrance Fee, Then Took the Vix Torque](https://france247.news/en/article/vix-gold-torque-stolen-chatillonnais-museum): The 2,500 year old gold collar was taken from a museum in Burgundy in the middle of a Friday morning. Prosecutors are treating it as organised crime, and the government has announced a national security plan for museums.

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