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The THEAMA Theater for People with Disabilities is staging Jean-Paul Sartre's satirical drama "Nekrassov" for the first time in Greece in a run of 21 performances at the Apo Michanis (Ex Machina) theater, at 6 p.m. every Wednesday and Thursday to April 5. The production features English and Greek supertitles with Greek Sign Language interpretation. The theater is wheelchair accessible.

French will pay national tribute to Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame, who swapped places with a hostage during the deadly attacks in the southern French department of Aude, and later died of sustained wounds, the Elysee Palace said instatement, Sputnik reported.

A French police officer who volunteered to trade places with a hostage during a terror attack involving a standoff in a supermarket has died of his injuries, France's interior minister said Saturday local time.

French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb said on Twitter Saturday morning that the lieutenant colonel who was seriously injured, Arnaud Beltrame, died.

French President Emmanuel Macron's popularity has fallen to its lowest point so far in his presidency, a poll showed on March 23, a day after nationwide protests against his reform drive brought tens of thousands of public workers on the streets.

A showdown between French railway workers and President Emmanuel Macron's government grew more threatening on Tuesday after an internal labor union message suggested rail workers could paralyze services even outside of official strike days.

French and Indian companies signed contracts worth 13 billion euros ($16 billion) on the first day of President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to India on March 10, the French presidency said in a statement.

Over 100 actresses and film professionals in France, including Vanessa Paradis and Diane Kruger, launched their own movement yesterday against sexual violence, and said they would sport white ribbons at a French awards event this week.

"Antikythera Wreck: The Adventure Continues," on show at the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation in Piraeus through March 18, comprises new discoveries made at the underwater archaeological excavation of this important ancient shipwreck. The artifacts are displayed immersed in water tanks as they undergo desalination, while the show also includes discoveries from previous excavations.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s government unveiled plans on Feb. 26 to push through reforms of France’s mammoth rail system, daring to tread where his predecessors have failed. 

Emmanuel Macron's government will propose stricter laws on immigration and asylum on Wednesday, Reuters reported.