Tag Archives: France

Don’t let the bedbugs bite! Tips to find and repel pests as Japan’s ‘Golden Week’ begins

Don't let the bedbugs bite! Tips to find and repel pests as Japan's 'Golden Week' begins

[ad_1] An adult bedbug, depicted in this image, is usually 5 to 8 millimeters in length. (Mainichi) TOKYO — Bedbugs are gradually causing damage in Japan after being reported in large numbers in France and South Korea among other places last year. As Japan commences its “Golden Week” holiday period when people travel more often and engage in leisure activities, there are concerns the bugs, whose bites cause intense itching, could spread further. So what can people do to […]

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France blames bed bug panic on Russian ‘disinformation’

France blames bed bug panic on Russian 'disinformation'

[ad_1] A bedbug scare in Paris last autumn that grabbed headlines across the globe and led to schools closing was artificially amplified by social media accounts linked to Russian “disinformation” activities, a French minister has said. Issued on: 02/03/2024 – 11:29 1 min “The bed bug polemic was in a very large part amplified by accounts linked to the Kremlin, and they even created a false link between the arrival of Ukrainian refuges and the spread of bedbugs,” French European affairs minister Jean-Noel Barrot told TF1 television on […]

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French tourist’s drone lands him 8 years in jail

French tourist’s drone lands him 8 years in jail

[ad_1] A French tourist will spend years in an Iranian prison after a recreational drone flight saw him charged with spying offences. A French tourist has been sentenced to more than eight years in a notorious Iranian prison after he was arrested on spying charges, all because of a drone flight. Benjamin Briere, 36, was arrested in May 2020 after taking pictures in a national park near the Iran-Turkmenistan border with a recreational drone. This week, the Frenchman was sentenced to eight years in prison and was […]

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