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Close to 600,000 sign up for Papal mass in Paris next weekend
First official Papal visit to France since 2008 will see Pope visit three cities
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Seine-Maritime launches drone defibrillator deliveries for cardiac arrests
Normandy department becomes the first place in France to dispatch defibrillators by drone, aiming to speed up cardiac arrest treatment and save lives
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App helps English-speakers access emergency medical help in French
LifeLine Europe helps English-speakers call emergency services, share medical details in French and access offline safety tools while travelling
Pay Paris Metro by smartphone
Paying the metro, RER or bus by smartphone will be a reality in Ile-de-France from this autumn as transport bosses experiment with paperless tickets.
With five million paper tickets checked each year, RATP, SNCF and Ile-de-France Mobilités want to move to using a smartphone version of the Pass Navigo, downloading a ‘carnet’ of tickets when needed and using the phone on the ticket machine (borne).
The aim is to have the system open to all users by summer 2019.