Also known as: Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu
Prime Minister of France who announced the end of France's intelligence contract with Palantir over US dependency concerns.
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Citizen Digital
… Of the five French passengers repatriated on Sunday, one woman who tested positive was placed in intensive care in stable condition, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu wrote on X. …
Hantavirus ship heads to Netherlands after passengers flown homeCapital News
… Sébastien Lecornu said the French national developed symptoms while on a chartered flight from Tenerife to Paris, and so all five evacuated from the MV Hondius had been “immediately placed in strict isolation until further notice”. …
French national shows symptoms on return from hantavirus-hit shipThe Standard
… But one of five French people flown back to France was showing hantavirus symptoms, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu wrote on X, saying all those evacuees "have immediately been placed in strict isolation until further notice". …
US citizen from hantavirus ship tests positiveMore than 160,000 people evacuated from France and Spain on Saturday as unprecedented forest fires spread near Madrid and Bordeaux. French President Emmanuel Macron mobilised the army and requested EU assistance as the largest wildfire in French history threatened the region.
25 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
More than 160,000 people evacuated from France and Spain on Saturday as unprecedented forest fires spread near Madrid and Bordeaux. French President Emmanuel Macron mobilised the army and requested EU assistance as the largest wildfire in French history threatened the region.
25 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
France and Spain evacuated more than 160,000 people as out-of-control forest fires burned near Madrid and Bordeaux, with the French military deployed to combat what officials described as France's worst wildfire on record and Spain's worst regional fire on record.
25 July 2026 · The Standard →
French Green party lawmakers, joined by hard-left and Socialist colleagues, filed a no-confidence motion against the government over its handling of a severe heatwave in late June, to be discussed at the National Assembly on July 6. The motion is unlikely to succeed, as the National Rally has said it will not back it and the Socialists have not supported previous no-confidence motions against Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu.
3 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Organisers of the Paris Pride March, scheduled for this weekend, postponed the event after police ordered them to change the date to relieve pressure on emergency services during the heatwave. They are considering rescheduling to September.
27 June 2026 · Citizen Digital →
France confirmed its first Ebola case on its territory—a doctor who returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a major outbreak is underway. The case marks the first confirmed Ebola infection outside Africa during the current outbreak, which has also affected Uganda.
24 June 2026 · Citizen Digital →
France has confirmed its first Ebola case identified on its territory—a doctor who returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is the first case of the current outbreak detected outside Africa, which has also affected Uganda.
24 June 2026 · Citizen Digital →
France has issued red heatwave alerts for around half the country, including Paris, as temperatures approach record levels; authorities have banned alcohol consumption at the annual Fête de la Musique street music festival to preserve emergency services during the extreme heat.
22 June 2026 · Capital News →
A heatwave across Europe prompted France to restrict alcohol consumption at public events in 35 departments expecting temperatures of 39–41°C on Sunday, while Germany issued widespread heat alerts and Spain closed a soccer fan zone.
21 June 2026 · Citizen Digital →
France's domestic intelligence agency will stop working with American AI firm Palantir, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced, citing concerns about strategic digital dependencies on the United States. The decision follows Washington's restriction on access to Anthropic's Fable model for non-American users, prompting France to invest 655 million euros in developing its own AI capabilities.
16 June 2026 · The Standard →
President Emmanuel Macron said he feared for trust in France's institutions after a botched investigation into the main suspect in an 11-year-old girl's likely murder triggered public outrage. The suspect, a 41-year-old father of a school friend, had twice before been formally accused of raping a child, but investigations had been dropped or stalled.
11 June 2026 · Citizen Digital →
The Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius, which suffered a deadly hantavirus outbreak that killed three people, sailed to the Netherlands after its last passengers disembarked in Spain's Canary Islands, with at least seven confirmed and one probable case among evacuees.
12 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
A French national developed hantavirus symptoms on a chartered flight repatriating five evacuees from the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius to Paris. Three passengers have died from the outbreak, two confirmed with the virus, and more than 90 tourists are being ferried home with evacuees placed in strict isolation.
11 May 2026 · Capital News →
A US citizen aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius has tested positive for hantavirus. Three passengers—a Dutch couple and a German woman—have died from the virus, which is rare and endemic in Argentina where the ship departed in April; health officials say global public health risk is low and no vaccines or specific treatments exist.
11 May 2026 · The Standard →