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Shipments of the coronavirus vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech were delivered Sunday in the U.K. in super-cold containers, two days before it goes public in an immunisation program that is being closely watched around the world.
Paris — France has accused American internet giant Google of ignoring “the spirit and the letter” of a Europe-wide copyright law aimed at giving publishers a bigger cut of the economic benefit from online news.
French President called out on the domestic militant Islamist group as one that “directly implicated” the last week’s brutal decapitation of history teacher.
On October 21, France’s President Emmanuel Macron said that the beheaded history lecturer was a "victim of stupidity, lies, and hate" as he called out on the domestic militant Islamist group as one that “directly implicated” the last week’s brutal decapitation that rocked Paris. Macron said that his administration wouldn’t renounce freedom of expression, as he called the late victim Samuel Paty as the “face of the Republic” who “believed in knowledge” at the national vigil to pay solidarity to the slain teacher at the Sorbonne University in central Paris.
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French President Emmanuel Macron and the country’s lawmakers say they are now looking to sanction Google for adopting what they consider strongarm tactics to avoid paying to publish excerpts from European publications on Google News.
The French history lecturer who had displayed controversial Charlie Hebdo cartoons was beheaded in a gruesome murder by an 18-year-old Chechen Islamic extremist refugee, who was later shot dead by police. While the ceremonial military guards carried the coffin of the teacher attacked at northern Paris suburb of Éragny into the cobblestone courtyard of Sorbonne, Macron called him a "revolutionary" for France. Meanwhile, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said in a presser that the beheading had simmered a new wave of secular tensions across France.
The 47-year-old is the face of our will to shatter terrorists [Islamic radicals], Macron said, adding that France will do away with Islamists to thrive in midst of a terror-free community of free citizens. “We will continue,” he said, addressing the French press. Further, a poem by acclaimed French literary author Albert Camus was read aloud that was telecasted LIVE on the screens installed at the ceremony. Further, administrative group Régions de France distributed booklets of black humour caricatures that ever appeared in the press to defend the French Revolution’s affirmed freedom of speech and expression as an inalienable right.
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France is the first European country to put the European Union’s Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market on its statute books, taking effect at the end of October. The European Parliament adopted the directive in March, giving member states two years to pass legislation upholding its requirements.
France’s law requires Google to pay what has been called a “link tax” — effectively a license to display snippets of press articles on Google News.
regions of France would take the initiative to prepare for publication a work bringing together the most notable religious and political caricatures that have appeared in the regional press, as well as those in the national press, group president Renaud Muselier said according to France’s local broadcaster Connexion France’s sources. Further, with the assistance of the Minister for National Education of France, Jean-Michel Blanquer, the group arranged for the historians to explain caricature’s literary context and the right [to create] art as part of the political history of France.
[French President Emmanuel Macron, right, delivers a speech while Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin listens, after a visit on the fight against separatism at the Seine Saint Denis prefecture headquarters in Bobigny, a northeastern suburbs of Paris. Credit: AP]
[French anti-terrorist state prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard holds a press conference in Paris. The French government issued an order to dissolve a domestic militant Islamic group after the beheading last week near Paris of Samuel Paty, a teacher who had shown students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Credit: AP]
[People attend a memorial march in homage to the history teacher who was beheaded last week, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris. Samuel Paty was beheaded on Friday by an 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee. Credit: AP]
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) appealed to the Muslims to boycott French products on Thursday. Maulana Muhammad Umrain Mahfuz Rahmani, the secretary of the board and in-charge of the social media desk, made the announcement.
The appeal was issued over French President Emmanuel Macron’s speeches on Islam and Muslims. In Bhopal, members of the Muslim community also protested at Iqbal Maidan against Macron over the controversy about the depiction of Prophet Muhammad in cartoons.
Speaking at the demonstration, Congress MLA Arif Masood demanded that the Union government asked the Indian Ambassador to France to register protest against “anti-Muslim” stand of that country’s regime.
This becomes after the French President made certain comments on Islam after the brutal killing of schoolteacher Samuel Patty for showing a cartoon of the Prophet.
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Google responded to the law’s passage by announcing it would stop displaying previews of news articles and use only a headline and link. The company said French publishers could still ask for snippets to be published, but it would not pay for the right. Google says it sends 8 billion visitors a month to publishers’ sites in Europe alone.
“Publishers have always been able to decide whether their content is available to be found in Google Search or Google News,” Google wrote in a blog post. “The Internet has created more choice and diversity in news than ever before. With so many options, it can be hard for consumers to find the news they are interested in. And for all types of publishers ... it’s important to make sure readers can find their content.”
Google’s announcement brought an angry riposte from Macron, who told journalists on Wednesday he would be asking Europe’s competition authorities to examine the move and to “engage in any possible action as soon as possible”.
“The way things are unfolding is entirely predictable because the directive is based on a fundamental mistake. It’s correct to identify that Google and Facebook have hit the traditional press business model, but they haven’t destroyed that model by using press articles but by hitting advertising and collecting vast amounts of data, which allows them to out-compete [publishers].”
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“Certain companies like Google now want to get around the rules. We will not let them do this,” Macron said. His comments came after he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a joint statement to the same effect following a meeting of French and German ministers on Wednesday.
The French competition authority announced at the end of September it would be looking into Google’s actions, but said it was only an “exploratory” inquiry at this stage. It could not say if or when legal action might be taken against the American internet giant.
France’s culture minister, Franck Riester, has described the EU directive as “absolutely essential for our democracy and the survival of an independent and free press.” He said Paris and Berlin were ratcheting up their response after he met Google executives Patrick Jabal, vice president in charge of partnerships, and Cécile Frot-Coutaz, director of YouTube for Europe and Africa, in New York last Saturday.
The law, proposing a maximum penalty of 3 years in prison and a 45,000 euro fine, was approved by a vote of 98 to 3.
Discrimination on the basis of accent was described in the Assemblée Nationale as “a form of racism” while a number of MPs told of their own personal experiences.
Maina Sage, an MP for French Polynesia, spoke of the difficulties that can be encountered by people like her, who come from outside the French mainland.
Difficulties and mockery
Patrician Miralles, the daughter of North African parents, told of the mockery she had endured because of her Algerian accent which she has now modified. She briefly resurrected it in the Assemblée yesterday for the benefit of fellow MPs
However MP Jean Lassalle, also from south-western France with a famously pronounced accent, voted against the bill. “I am not asking for charity. I’m not demanding to be protected because I am who I am”, he argued.
Last week he tweeted that France had "sunk very low" and that he did not want a law "protecting us from small-minded people."
In 2018, Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of the far-left France Insoumise (France Unbowed) movement, was caught on camera being rude to a journalist with a southern accent who asked him a question at the National Assembly.
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Smaller shops say hiring security personnel is out of the question when the budget is so tight. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Benjamin Cymerman, president of the Faubourg Saint-Honoré committee in the 8th district says it would not be suitable for luxury shops to leave expensive watches on the footpath, due to the risk of theft.
For other stores, it’s a question of their products being left out in rain, snow or dust.
In another show of solidarity with small businesses, supermarket chains such as Intermarché have made space online for local shops to sell their wares using the click and collect policy.
Around 800,000 doses of the vaccine were expected to be in place for the start of the immunisation program on Tuesday, a day that Health Secretary Matt Hancock has reportedly dubbed as “V-Day,” a nod to triumphs in World War II.
“To know that they are here, and we are amongst the first in the country to actually receive the vaccine and therefore the first in the world, is just amazing,” said Louise Coughlan, joint chief pharmacist at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, just south of London.
“I'm so proud," she said after the trust, which runs Croydon University Hospital, took delivery of the vaccine.
Last week, the U.K. became the first country to authorise the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine for emergency use. In trials, the vaccine was shown to have around 95% efficacy.
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