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Provost Olinto Meets With French President to Launch Lafayette Fellowship
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Columbia University Provost and Students Meet French President Emmanuel Macron to Mark Launch of Lafayette Fellowship On Tuesday, September 23, His Excellency Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, visited Villa Albertine, the...
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World champions, Olympic medallists and a Tour de France winner – these are the riders retiring in 2025
Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli's 'Time to Say Goodbye' – 'Con te partirò' in Italian – is one of the best-selling singles of all time. You've almost certainly heard it, even if it was only when he performed it to Leicester City fans in 2016,...
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'Kyiv could be Silicon Valley' — New 50-million-euro startup fund will develop Ukraine’s tech-ecosystem
People walk through the UNIT.City, a tech hub in Kyiv, Ukraine in an undated photo. (UNIT.City / Facebook) If most investors have opted to watch Ukraine from a distance during Russia’s ongoing invasion, Charles Whitehead and Dominique Piotet are...
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Qair Secures €55M for Hyd’Occ in Occitanie, France
Project Announcement and Core Goals Big news: Qair, France’s independent renewable energy developer, just locked in a €55 million financing package to launch Hyd’Occ—destined to be France’s biggest green hydrogen ecosystem—down in Port-La...
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Infrastructure Technology Podcast: JTA's NAVI autonomous vehicle program
Here is a transcript from the episode: GJ: And welcome to the Infrastructure Technology Podcast. I'm Gavin Jenkins from Roads and Bridges, and with me, as always, we have Ileana Garnand, the digital editor of Roads and Bridges, and we have a man...
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World | Oct 14, 2025 | 8 min read Nobel economics prize goes to 3 researchers
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News World # Stockholm Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics Monday for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies replace older ones, a key economic...
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U.S. in 2025: 24% of global GDP, 750 military bases, and leadership in technology and culture sustain its global influence
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once said, “We are the indispensable nation,” referring to the USA. The late journalist Carlos Alberto Montaner commissioned me to write a book with this title. His idea was that a book was needed...
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This U.S. paradise just beat Paris as the world’s most romantic getaway
Paris may forever be known as the City of Love, but a new study shows it’s been dethroned by none other than Maui, Hawaii. In a recent survey of 2,000 Americans conducted by Talker Research in partnership with Funjet Vacations, 34% of respondents...
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Three share Nobel in economics for work on how technology drives growth
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University; Philippe Aghion of Collège de France, INSEAD and the London School of Economics; and Peter Howitt of Brown University for their work on how...
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France's Publicis says AI drives its growth, raises yearly forecast again
French advertising firm Publicis on Monday raised its full-year organic growth forecast for the second time, highlighting artificial intelligence products as its main growth driver. "It is artificial intelligence that allows us to accelerate our...
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Nato chief mocks ‘broken’ Russian submarine as it resurfaces off English Channel
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
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Estée Lauder opens innovative Fragrance Atelier within its new La Maison des Parfums in Paris
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., under the high patronage of French president Emmanuel Macron, announced the opening of its Fragrance Atelier within its new La Maison des Parfums on Rue Volney in Paris on October 14. This global innovation hub is...
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How Irish revolutionaries used French language to secure support
Analysis: The multilingual skills of the revolutionary generation helped them to amplify Ireland's cause on the world stage By Síobhra Aiken, Queen's University Belfast; Claire Dubois, University of Lille and Mark O'Rawe, Queen's University...
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A Nobel Prize for explaining when technology leads to growth
If you graph the history of economic growth, it looks a lot like a hockey stick laid on the ground with its blade sticking up. That is, economic growth was pretty flat for millennia, and then, around 1800, it points upward toward the sky. It's no...
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September review: Stability, strength & new trends in European tech investments
Each month, I shift my focus from daily market activities to gain a macro view of Europe’s tech investment ecosystem. It’s not just about who raised new funding or exited, but about the underlying patterns that could indicate future trends. I...
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Heavy-Lift Marine Operator, French Port Team Up on Floating Wind Launching Solutions
BOA and BrestPort, the company managing the commercial port of Brest in France, have decided to collaborate on the development of floating offshore wind turbine launching methods from port facilities into open water, as well as supporting the...
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Six key questions about France's 2026 budget
Sébastien Lecornu (third from the right) during a meeting with the new members of his government at Matignon [the prime minister's office] in Paris, October 13, 2025. ALAIN JOCARD/AFP From the outset, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu...
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Limehome enters London and Paris as part of European expansion strategy
Limehome has launched its first properties in London and Paris, marking a key step in its European growth strategy and strengthening its presence in major urban hospitality markets. MUNICH / LONDON / PARIS – Limehome, the tech-enabled serviced...
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Portrait of Marie Antoinette is really her sister, Oxford researcher says
The discovery was made by Professor Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford, while researching a book and working with the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire (MAH) in Geneva. The 1762 portrait by Swiss painter Jean Etienne...
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Tapping into AI’s ‘double opportunity’: Ouest-France’s strategy to keep AI in-house
When generative AI exploded onto the scene, Ouest-France was well-placed to take advantage of the new technology thanks to its long history of working with AI. Already before the current buzz around the tech, the French publisher’s dozen or so...
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