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French rail strike June 10: how to find out about affected services
Action may impact TER, TGV, Intercités, Transilien and RER trains
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France’s D-Day events and commemorations 2026
Celebrations include official remembrance ceremonies, historic exhibitions and 1940s-themed dances
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Pyrénées Orientales residents to cast vote on name change
Three options are being submitted although a popular fourth has been controversially removed
Birth rate falling but population is 67m
France’s birth rate is falling and has been doing so since 2014 with 747,000 babies born in 2016 as against 781,000 in 2014 and well short of the 802,000 in 2010.
Statistics agency Insee says its population is 66,990,828 and figures show France could see only 730,000 births this year.
