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Thu, 18 Jul 2019 13:52:03 GMT Celebrate! France's love affair with holidays With a minimum of 30 days of paid leave per year, French people have the reputation of being on vacation all the time. During the summer months of July and August, the country virtually shuts down. So what do they do with all those cherished "congés payés"? We take a closer look.
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 13:10:30 GMT France defiant on plans to impose 'Gafa' tax on tech giants France on Wednesday said it would push ahead with its law to tax tech giants that has sparked a row with the United States, saying that an international accord was the only way to solve the dispute.
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 20:14:10 GMT France to ease restrictions on blood donations from gay men The French government has banned gay and bisexual men from donating blood within a year of sexual activity since 2016. On Wednesday it said it would lower this “deferral” period – long been criticised as discriminatory – to four months.
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 19:30:33 GMT ‘HIV isn’t over’: The world’s waning response to the AIDS crisis As France prepares to host the Global Fund Replenishment Conference on fighting AIDS, experts warn against complacency in the global fight against HIV. France leads in some areas of the battle but has some catching up to do in others.
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Feeds from Office of Science and Technology Embassy of France in the USA
The 53rd International Paris Air Show came to a close yesterday at Le Bourget, where CNES made its mark again this year with a new record of 30,000 visitors to its pavilion over the course of the week-long event—up from 17,000 at the previous edition in 2017, confirming the public's growing interest in space.
On the night of 20 to 21 June, Ariane 5 completed a flawless launch from Europe's spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), placing into geostationary transfer orbit the T-16 satellite for AT&T and the EUTELSAT 7C satellite for Eutelsat.
Urbanization is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity, but in the wake of climate change, can we turn cities into safe harbors for endangered species through daring preservation initiatives?
The Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States and Smithsonian Conservation Commons are pleased to invite you to a French-American Climate Talk on Biodiversity (FACT-B) to be held on June 18, 2019 in Washington, D.C. on "Biodiversity and People".
2018 was a particularly prolific year for CNES, marked by major successes such as the launch of the CFOSat, MetOp-C and CSO-1 satellites and the BepiColombo interplanetary probe, the birth of the Space Climate Observatory (SCO) and the creation of ArianeWorks…
In the 2018 annual report, Jean Yves Le Gall, President of CNES, reflects news events.
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