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French parents are not allowed to give their children a suit on the pants anymore.

The social unrest has also led to protests among pupils in France. French media reported campaigns at numerous secondary schools where students block the educational institution.

Jamaican reggae music is included on UNESCO's list of intangible heritage. That was decided during a meeting of the cultural organization of the United Nations on the island of Mauritius, where other traditions won a coveted place on the heritage list.

The leaders of the 'yellow vests', the nickname of the spontaneous French protest movement against making diesel and petrol more expensive, said Wednesday that the organization is not going to talk to Édouard Philippe in the short term. The Prime Minister had invited a representative delegation of the 'Gilet Jaunes' to a conversation before the demonstrators took to the streets again on Saturday.

Emmanuel Macron meets the Gele Hesjes by taking measures against too fast rising fuel prices. This is not enough for the angry demonstrators.

To protect the French against HIV infection, the virus that can cause AIDS, the government has decided to provide free condoms on prescription. That is what the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn announced on Tuesday on the channel France Inter.

The French government will not shut down further nuclear plants until 2022, in addition to the already announced closure of the plant in Fessenheim. In a long-awaited speech on energy politics, President Emmanuel Macron said that France will not completely ban atomic energy. In 2022 his (first) term ends as president.

Chaos reigns on the Champs Élysées. In several places, fences and other street furniture have been thrown into a heap and set on fire. The police shoots water cannons and tear gas grenades to disperse the 'Yellow Hesjes' (citizen protest against tax increases and against the policy of President Macron).

Soon after the first demonstrators had set out for high fuel prices in Paris, the riot police had been bombarding tear gas and tear gas on Saturday morning with tear gas and water cannon. According to the police, the target was not in the first place the demonstrators, dressed in yellow vests ('gilets jaunes'), but in black dressed rioters and right-wing extremists.

France will return 26 colonial art works to the West African country Benin. The office of President Emmanuel Macron reported that Friday. The announcement came after a French commission of experts had advised to return objects from former French colonies from French museums to the country of origin.

A taxi driver who forced two Thai tourists to pay 247 euros for a ride that costs 55, has to go to the cell for eight months.

The French justice will look at donations to the movement of President Emmanuel Macron. According to French media, the investigation starts Wednesday and is specifically focused on the origin of 144,000 euros in 2017. It may be donations that are in conflict with the rules for the financing of election campaigns.

The French police have removed many blockades of demonstrators Tuesday, but the protest against the increases in fuel prices continues. French media reported that an estimated 27,000 demonstrators were on their feet on the fourth day of protests.

Germany has imposed an entry ban on eighteen Saudi's. They are suspected of having been involved in the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The journalist lived and worked in the US and was very critical of the Saud family clan that rules Saudi Arabia.

The 'Yellow Hesjes' are not finished with Emmanuel Macron. On Monday, the third consecutive day is protested against an increase in fuel prices. The demonstrators stabbed in yellow vests have blocked access to fuel stores in several places in the country.

The French Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, has said that the government will not bend the protesters by turning the excise duties on fuel back. According to him, other tax cuts have reduced the overall burden of taxpayers.

After the massive protests of angry motorists Saturday, there are Sunday actions again because of high fuel prices. French media reported that people in yellow vests have been taken to the streets again and again, even though it is not that massive already a day earlier.

In case of actions on the roads in France, a dead accident occurred on Saturday. According to French media, a demonstrator died as a result of an accident at Pont-de-Beauvoisin in the Savoie department.

Angry drivers on Saturday morning early in France raised the first blockades in protest against rising fuel prices. Fifteen hundred slower actions are expected in all of the country.

The prominent Islam expert Tariq Ramadan is conditionally released. He has been in France since February on suspicion of rape of two women.

They have not been seen for two hundred years, but soon a woman may be parading somewhere with the jewels of Marie Antoinette. Sotheby's auctioned a special collection of jewelery last night, containing top pieces of the decapitated French queen.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said that 'allies owe each other respect.' He reacted to tweets by his American counterpart Donald Trump, who had wiped him the mantle on Twitter.

France sends a team to Facebook to see how the tech company tackles digital hate mongering. According to the French president Emmanuel Macron, it is a unique experiment that should last about half a year.

Due to smoke in the cabin, an aircraft with 282 people on board made an emergency landing in Siberia, in the east of Russia.

'On 11 November, exactly 100 years ago, the Armistice went into Paris, like everywhere else in France,' said Emmanuel Macron this morning at the Arc de Triomphe. 'That was the end of four long and terrible years. In those four years Europe has almost committed suicide. 'In the presence of nearly eighty government leaders, the French head of state commemorated the 'armistice', which marked the end of the First World War.

An activist from the feminist protest movement Femen attacked the heavily guarded procession in Paris on Sunday with American President Donald Trump. The woman was quickly arrested by the French police on the Champs Elysees. She could get up to a few meters from the Trump column.

World leaders gather Sunday morning in Paris for the commemoration of the end of the First World War, a hundred years ago. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is also in Paris. He was received by French President Emmanuel Macron.

US President Donald Trump and his Turkish colleague Recep Tayyip Erdogan have consulted on a response to the murder of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi. That is what a White House official said on Sunday.

The Czech writer Milan Kundera (89) can regain his Czech nationality after about four decades. Prime Minister Andrej Babis met the author of, among other things, the book The unbearable lightness of existence Saturday in Paris. On Facebook, Babis wrote that the writer deserves to become a citizen again.

Three activists from the feminist protest movement Femen conducted action under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Saturday to protest the presence of 'war criminals' as they call some state leaders attending the commemorations of the First World War this weekend.