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‘Child-friendly’ stickers for cafés to launch in France
Red stickers will promote spaces that welcome children in face of growing – and controversial – ‘no-kid’ movement
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Big drop in telephone fees but rises for food and services: France’s June 2025 inflation stats
Year-on-year inflation picks up to reach 1% in France
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Macron pledges billions in extra defence funding for French army
By 2027 the sum given to the military will have doubled from 2017, but the president did not lay out where extra funds will come from
€2m gem thieves say sorry for the mess
Thieves who grabbed €2million of diamonds from a Paris dealer left a note to apologise.

They had broken into the diamond dealer’s office near the Pompidou Centre from a neighbouring property. Their message, inspired by Albert Spaggiari’s 1976 raid on Nice branch of Société Générale said ‘No weapons, no violence. Sorry for the inconvenience’.