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French software firm OVHcloud has launched its first data centre in India as it expands in the Asia-Pacific region aiming to capitalise on growing cloud adoption amid heightened concerns over data privacy, it said on Monday. The new data centre in Mumbai will provide Indian businesses with local computer and storage infrastructure to meet changing data compliance needs as India digitalises and pushes for more data protection, OVH said. International Data Corporation (IDC), a market intelligence firm focusing on the tech…

PARIS—French President Emmanuel Macron’s government bypassed Parliament and invoked special constitutional powers on Thursday to raise the country’s retirement age, a step that places him at odds with France’s legislative branch and millions of protesters.By requiring workers to stay on the job until they are 64 years old, rather than 62, Mr. Macron is rolling back an entitlement that lies at the heart of France’s social model. Long and cushy retirements are weighing on national finances…

EDF’s nuclear reactors normally export large amounts of electricity across Western Europe. Photo: STEPHANE MAHE/REUTERS…

10. Wonder Boys (2000)As the pregnant married lover of Michael Douglas’s silver-fox creative writing professor, this is the kind of fairly thankless ancillary role that McDormand does so well: giving us a subtle insight into the human frailties under the surface of an otherwise tough-nut authority figure.9. Mississippi Burning (1988)McDormand impressed the Oscar voters for the first time in this impassioned study of small-town racism, inspired by the real-life murder of three civil rights workers in 1964. Giving an early…

Consumer analytics firm GfK and Livres Hebdo released their report on the top fifty bestselling books for 2022 in France and comics took a hefty chunk of that: 18 comics titles sat in the top 50 bestseller list, including the year’s highest selling title, Christophe Blain and Jean-Marc Jancovici‘s World Without End. Based on the report, which doesn’t include a full list of sales numbers, the general fiction prose book category remained dominant, represented by 27 titles (54%) but comics took a huge chunk of the…

The Cesar Awards, France’s most prestigious film awards, has announced that anyone being investigated on allegations of sexual misconduct will be barred from its ceremony next month.There were fears of protests at the event on 25 February after it was revealed that rising star Sofiane Bennacer was being investigated by police on two allegations of rape and one of violence.Bennacer, 25, who denies any wrongdoing, had been seen as an awards frontrunner for his part in Les Amandiers (Forever Young) about a sexually…

France’s first commercial-scale offshore wind project, the 480 megawatt (MW) Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm, is now fully up and running. Eolien Maritime France (EMF), a consortium of EDF Renewables, Enbridge, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, developed and owns the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm. As Electrek previously reported, installation of all 80 GE Haliade 150-6 MW offshore wind turbines were completed in September. France’s first wind farm, which is off the…

Twitter Inc's head of French operations, Damien Viel, said he was quitting the social media platform, whose new owner Elon Musk recently fired top executives and enforced steep job cuts at the company. "It's over," Viel tweeted on Sunday, thanking his team in France, which he led for the last seven years. Viel confirmed he was leaving Twitter in a separate message to Reuters. He didn't elaborate on the circumstances of his departure and declined to say how many people Twitter employed in France either before or after…

Frances O’Connor was a 15-year-old pupil at an all-girls Catholic school when she first read Wuthering Heights on the hour-long bus journey to and from her home in the hills outside Perth, Western Australia. “It was the feeling of the elements, and the environment, that I recognised so strongly from my own childhood,” she says. “I remember not wanting to leave that windy, gothic, slightly supernatural place to go back to the real world.”She also loved “just how kickass Cathy and Heathcliff were – that feeling of being…

Frances Townsend has stepped down from the role of Activision Blizzard‘s chief compliance officer. In a company email sent out on Thursday (September 29), CEO Bobby Kotick announced staff that Townsend would be stepping down from her position after less than two years at the Call Of Duty publisher (via The Wall Street Journal). “She tirelessly and successfully navigated a challenging time for the Company with leadership, conviction, and grace,” wrote Kotick in the email. Despite leaving her position, Townsend will…