https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Seven people, including four foreign tourists, were killed and 33 injured in an accident involving a coach in eastern Cuba, local media reported on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190112/french-and-german-tourists-among-seven-dead-in-cuban-road-accident Sat, 12 Jan 2019 11:39:23 +0100 french-and-german-tourists-among-seven-dead-in-cuban-road-accident French Environment Minister Segolene Royal, representing her government at a tribute for Fidel Castro in Cuba, defended the late communist leader's human rights record on Saturday, questioning whether the regime imprisons dissidents. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161204/french-minister-defends-castros-rights-record Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:16:12 +0100 french-minister-defends-castros-rights-record French President Francois Hollande on Saturday called for the embargo that "punishes" Cuba to be "lifted definitively" following the death of Fidel Castro. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161126/french-pres-hails-castro-as-great-figure-of-20th-century Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:28:58 +0100 french-pres-hails-castro-as-great-figure-of-20th-century French President Francois Hollande met with an ailing Fidel Castro on Monday, as well as the President Raul Castro, in a historic trip where he called for an end to the US embargo on Cuba. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150512/hollande-meets-with-fidel-castro-in-cuba Tue, 12 May 2015 11:16:06 +0200 hollande-meets-with-fidel-castro-in-cuba UPDATED: French President Francois Hollande called on Monday for an end to the US embargo on Cuba during a historic visit to the island, the first by a Western leader since Washington and Havana moved to restore ties. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150511/frances-hollande-arrives-in-cuba-on-historic-visit Mon, 11 May 2015 19:02:34 +0200 frances-hollande-arrives-in-cuba-on-historic-visit François Hollande will become the first French president to visit Cuba in more than a century when he lands in Havana on Monday, cementing Paris’s leading role in the European Union’s rapprochement with the communist island. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150509/countdown-for-hollandes-historic-cuba-visit Sat, 09 May 2015 13:46:49 +0200 countdown-for-hollandes-historic-cuba-visit President François Hollande will make the first ever visit by a French head of state to Cuba in May in the latest sign of a thaw between the isolated communist nation and Europe and the United States. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150304/hollande-to-be-first-french-president-to-visit-cuba Wed, 04 Mar 2015 09:42:00 +0100 hollande-to-be-first-french-president-to-visit-cuba Forty-one French tourists and two locals were injured in Cuba Monday when the bus they were traveling in hit another vehicle, media reports and diplomatic sources said. Seven are said to be in a serious condition. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141202/dozens-of-french-tourists-hurt-in-cuba-bus-crash Tue, 02 Dec 2014 10:58:00 +0100 dozens-of-french-tourists-hurt-in-cuba-bus-crash French "Spider-Man" Alain Robert on Monday scaled the facade of the iconic Hotel Havana Libre in the Cuban capital, in what he said was a show of support for revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130205/frances-spiderman-scales-havana-hotel-for-castro Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:45:00 +0100 frances-spiderman-scales-havana-hotel-for-castro