France threatens SHEIN ban
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LONDON (Reuters) -Chinese online fashion platform Shein is ramping up its fight in France, gambling that its first permanent shop, in a Paris department store, will help fend off fierce pushback from lawmakers against its low-cost model.
France is the latest country to change its criminal code to a consent-based definition of rape, but other developed countries still haven’t.
The French government will begin closed-door talks with lawmakers this week in a bid to salvage a budget from a bitter, slow-moving parliamentary debate that risks toppling Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu.
The robbers used explosives to gain entry to a precious-metal company in Lyon, French officials said. The police recovered the items.
Senators voted 327-0 in favor of the bill, which states that "any non-consensual sexual act constitutes sexual assault."
The 77-year-old missed a bend on his bike on his way home from the supermarket on a lonely road in the mountainous Cevennes region, careening down a rocky slope and into the ravine near Saint-Julien-des-Points.