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France adopts law upholding ban on controversial insecticide

Demonstrators awaiting a decision on the Duplomb law hold a banner reading "Cancer anger. Stop pesticides" as they gather in front of the Constitutional Council in Paris on August 7, 2025. [AFP]

French President Emmanuel Macron signed into law a modified bill that bars a bee-killing pesticide from being reintroduced after a petition signed by more than two million people.

The legislation has been at the heart of a major debate in France and sparked a student-initiated petition that was wildly successful.

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