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		<title>Macron’s Gulf Tour: Why France Is Racing to Secure Oil and Diesel as Hormuz Stays Disrupted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Emmanuel Macron visits Kuwait, the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar from the 19–21 October to secure]]></description>
		
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		<title>Blockade of High School Students: Replacement Teachers, Recruitment and Budget&#8230; Update on Edouard Geffray&#8217;s Announcements</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Faced with the mobilization of high school students, the Minister of National Education detailed several]]></description>
		
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		<title>Police Fire Tear Gas at Paris Students after PM&#8217;s Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Police fired tear gas at a barricaded high school in northeastern Paris on Thursday as]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fuel Prices: Truck Drivers Call for Help and Threaten to Block Paris</title>
		<link>https://chb44.com/2026/10/fuel-prices-truck-drivers-call-help-threaten-block-paris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aid]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Faced with delays in payment of promised aid, several road transport organisations announced on Thursday]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Fuel Shortage is Gaining Ground in France: These 2,500 Service Stations Dry of Petrol and Diesel this Monday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The prices of petrol and diesel are still very high this Monday and are strangling]]></description>
		
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		<title>2.39 Euros per Litre, a Record for Diesel: These Thousands of Stations Where it Costs Even More Near You</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[spanner44]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The price of a litre of diesel has reached a record, with an average of]]></description>
		
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		<title>France Raises Champagne Alcohol Limit to 15% After Record Heat</title>
		<link>https://chb44.com/2026/09/france-champagne-alcohol-limit-15-percent-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Plant]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[France Lifts Champagne Alcohol Cap to 15% France has temporarily raised the maximum alcohol level]]></description>
		
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		<title>After a Scorching Summer, the State is Removing 80% of a Plan to Adapt School Buildings to Extreme Heat</title>
		<link>https://chb44.com/2026/09/scorching-summer-state-removing-80-plan-adapt-school-buildings-extreme-heat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Government have reduced this summer, in the midst of a heatwave, its plan to]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fire in Aude: Faced with the violence of a forest fire, more than a hundred people evacuated</title>
		<link>https://chb44.com/2026/09/fire-aude-faced-violence-forest-fire-hundred-people-evacuated/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[spanner44]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A fire broke out on Friday around 4pm in the town of Puilaurens in Aude,]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;It will be Spectacular&#8221;: Falling Temperatures and Heavy Rain, which awaits France Next Week</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[spanner44]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While a new late heat episode began in France, with another 40°C forecast, autumn weather]]></description>
		
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