This week, we're focusing on France's end-of-high-school diploma, the baccalaureate. Two school years of Covid-19 disruption have taken their toll on pupils all around the world. B
Film critic Lisa Nesselson takes us through the frontrunners for this year's #César awards in #France, despite the fact that many of them got very little screen time in cinemas las
A nightly curfew is failing to slow the spread of #coronavirus infections in #France and tighter curbs are under consideration, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday
The region around the northern French port of #Dunkirk will start enforcing a weekend #lockdown from this weekend to halt a spike in #Covid-19 infections, Health Minister Olivier V
It is no longer labeled a law against religious separatism and you will not find in it the words "radical Islam". But as Emmanuel Macron's justice minister openly states, it is abu
A #Paris court on Monday found French former President Nicolas #Sarkozy guilty of #corruption and influence peddling and sentenced him to one year in #prison and a two-year suspend
This week, we're happily ensconced at a Parisian café terrace, as we celebrate the partial reopening of the country's bars and restaurants! The French are rekindling what is a long
Like various other countries over the past year or so, France has seen mass protests against police brutality. Now, authorities have begun a review of the police in a bid to improv
The verdict is expected on Monday in a landmark #corruption and influence-peddling #trial that has put French former President Nicolas #Sarkozy at risk of a prison sentence if he i
#Summer #festivals will be able to go ahead in #France this year despite the enduring #Covid-19 crisis, but attendance will be capped at 5,000 people and the public must be seated,
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolboys are reunited with their families in Katsina State, as questions continue over the role Boko Haram played in their kidnapping. A decade after the Tun
France’s parliament voted to approve a controversial law Friday that will ban the publication of images of on-duty police officers as well as expand the use of surveillance drones
The #Covid-19 #virus is circulating more quickly every week and a tighter #curfew put in place earlier this month has not managed to curb the spread of the virus, French Health Min
New #variants of the #coronavirus are circulating more widely every week and a tighter #curfew put in place earlier this month has not managed to curb the spread of the virus, Fren
Electronic music stars Daft Punk have split up, their publicist confirmed on Monday, ending one of the era's defining dancefloor acts.
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Race officials and drivers praised the modern safety systems developed for Formula One on Sunday after Romain Grosjean said he was "okay" after surviving a high-speed crash and fir
#Farmers have staged #protests at supermarkets and distribution centres in parts of #France, as they try to secure better prices for their produce. Their representatives are in tal
Legendary French fashion designer Pierre Cardin died Tuesday at the age of 98 at a hospital in Neuilly in western Paris, his family told AFP.
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The French government defended a draft law clamping down on radical #Islamism on Wednesday as a "law of freedom" after a torrent of criticism from Muslim countries and expressions
#France will strengthen #border controls and bring forward its night curfew by two hours to 6 p.m. as it tries to slow the spread of #coronavirus infections, Prime Minister Jean Ca
IN THE PRESS – Tuesday, February 9, 2021: With Donald Trump's second impeachment trial set to begin in the US Senate, we look at contrasting reactions from Republicans. Meanwhile i
A French #hospital group near the city of Lyon has become the latest victim of a wave of ransomware attacks. The IT systems at three hospitals were affected, and some operations ha
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Two French government ministers have announced their opposition to a potential #takeover of the country's biggest supermarket chain #Carrefour by the Canadian group Couche-Tard. Th
The French parliament has dropped a controversial bill that would have curbed the right to film police officers in action, the speaker of parliament and leader of President Emmanue
France’s Pasteur Institute announced on Monday that it is ending the development of its Covid-19 vaccine after trial results proved disappointing. It appears that the vaccine faile
France reported 35,879 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, taking the total to 1.86 million, overtaking Russia and making France the worst affected country in the European region.