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The Hill
April 25, 2018
When France lost its territories in mainland North America under the 1763 Paris treaty, the country realized that its influence on the continent was gone forever. The French then made a pragmatic calculus, supporting the revolutionaries' struggle to harm British dominance on the world stage. A thick layer ofÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 25, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump has praised France's "key partnership" in what he called a "campaign of maximum pressure" on the North Korean regime aimed at ensuring peace in the surrounding region. Speaking to reporters following talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Washington on AprilÃâà...
The Local France
April 25, 2018
Record temperatures may have made it feel like France skipped straight from winter to summer, but the heat isn't yet baking, the tourists are still manageable and the countryside is just popping into bloom: it must be spring ... As these delightful photos show, springtime in France is something to be savoured.
Chicago Tribune
April 25, 2018
With the opulent affair, Mrs. Trump seemed to be aiming to make a statement, stressing her personal involvement in picking the menu and gold-trimmed table settings. In a nod to France, she wore a black Chantilly lace Chanel haute couture gown, hand-painted with silver and embroidered with crystal andÃâà...
Architectural Digest
April 25, 2018
France offers myriad pleasures for travelers, and a road trip is the perfect way to see them. The country has a long history of helping travelers find the best places to eat and sleep, thanks in part to the Michelin Guide, started by the tire company as a way to encourage drivers to venture off the beaten path inÃâà...
The Denver Post
April 24, 2018
“He had asked me if my trip to France was expensive and I said, 'yeah.' I didn't really get why he was asking that question, and then he said 'It's about to get a lot more expensive after I charge you $500,'” Tadlock told the station. She was then issued a $500 citation and a revocation of her global entry statusÃâà...
The Local France
April 24, 2018
France is known for its topless sunbathers and nudist resorts. But it isn't just a simple case of getting your kit off willy-nilly, there are some rules you need to abide by. Here's what you need to know about getting naked the French way. It's not just beaches where you're likely to find groups of people going auÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 24, 2018
When Trump opted to pull out of the Paris climate accord, Macron delivered an address to the American people in English inviting scientists and entrepreneurs to conduct their research in France. "I do know how your new president now has decided to jeopardize your budget, your initiatives, and he isÃâà...
NPR
April 24, 2018
As French President Emmanuel Macron visits with President Trump in Washington, David Greene talks to Le Monde Editorial Director Sylvie Kauffman about the political challenges Macron faces at home. Facebook; Twitter; Flipboard; EmailÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 23, 2018
France's National Assembly has passed a controversial immigration reform law that shortens asylum applications and introduces a one-year prison sentence for entering France illegally. The law, approved on Sunday after 61 hours of debate, has exposed divisions in President Emmanuel Macron's youngÃâà...
The Local France
April 23, 2018
But rural hotel network Logis de France is betting on a return to traditional French village life and charm as a way of helping struggling communities keep up with the times. Starting this spring, numerous villages across France with fewer than 2,000 inhabitants will unveil their all-in-one country inns to theÃâà...
The Independent
April 20, 2018
Syria has returned the prestigious Legion d'honneur that was presented to its president Bashar al-Assad by France, saying would not wear the award of a “slave country” to the US. It comes just days after French president Emmanuel Macron begun the formal process of stripping the honour from his SyrianÃâà...
Quartz
April 20, 2018
France has a problem with autism. The country's highest administrative court estimates that there are 700,000 autistic people in France. However, only 75,000 are diagnosed. Autistic children have historically been diagnosed later in France than in neighboring countries. They have often been excludedÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 20, 2018
Tens of thousands of striking rail workers, public sector staff and students have rallied across France against President Emmanuel Macron. Demonstrators chanted and carried anti-Macron banners on Thursday in Paris and other cities such as Lyon and Marseille, but the scale of the protests appearedÃâà...
The Guardian
April 20, 2018
More than 500 parliamentarians from France, Germany and the UK have written to their US counterparts urging them to persuade Donald Trump not to abandon the Iran nuclear deal. In a joint statement published in the Guardian, Der Spiegel, the New York Times and Le Monde, they urged a White HouseÃâà...
The Local France
April 20, 2018
Soya steaks, vegan sausages and other vegetable-based products marketed as meat substitutes have been skewered by French lawmakers, who agreed Thursday to ban them for "misleading" consumers. Under the measure proposed by a farmer MP, food producers will no longer have the right to useÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 19, 2018
But politicians and intellectuals have pulled out all the stops to make sense of this anniversary, and whether it has any bearing on current events in France. The problem for those who, a half-century later, come to praise 1968, and for those who come to bury it, is that no one can identify the honored guestÃâà...
The Local France
April 19, 2018
As France prepares to cut speed limits on main countryside roads, a new report has shed some light on which parts of the country have the most ... On July 1st the speed limit on secondary roads across France will be cut from 90km/h to 80km/h in the hope of reducing the number of deaths on these roads.
The Local France
April 19, 2018
Six major French brands are joining forces to launch a sale similar to America's 'Black Friday' shopping bonanza...and shoppers in France don't have long to wait. Unlike the US phenomenon, France's 'Black Friday' equivalent will take place in spring from April 27th to May 1st. The six brands involved,Ãâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
April 12, 2018
Villers-Bretonneux: The most expensive museum built in France in decades is about to open its doors – and it's Australian. The $100 million Sir John Monash Centre, at Villers-Bretonneux in north-eastern France, is less than a fortnight from its official opening by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull – andÃâà...
Independent Online
April 12, 2018
PARIS - France has proof the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack last week and will decide whether to strike back when all the necessary information has been gathered, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday. France is expected to join the United States and Britain inÃâà...
The Local France
April 12, 2018
Nice, a city known for its beaches and elegant Mediterranean allure has just acquired another less desirable accolade as the town in France with the worst air quality,according to a new study that measured air quality in towns over the period of the last year. Over the past twelve months, the quality of the airÃâà...
The Local France
April 12, 2018
One way that your dream life in France can quickly become a nightmare is by being conned out of your life savings by rogue builder, phony electrician or ... convinced her it as fine to open the business without the correct paperwork or a contract with the British landlord, telling her it was normal in France.
CNN
April 12, 2018
Macron said France had proof that the Syrian regime has used chlorine as a weapon, and told French TV channel TF1 that he was in close discussions with Trump. "Yes, every day since the beginning of the week, our teams are working closely together and we will have decisions to make when the timesÃâà...
CNBC
April 12, 2018
France has proof the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack last week and will decide whether to strike back when all the necessary information has been gathered, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday. France is expected to join the United States and Britain in carrying out airÃâà...
The Guardian
April 11, 2018
It was supposed to be a simple mission to update British nationals in Paris about their rights after Brexit. The setting was the 18th-century embassy building, the backdrop to centuries of British diplomacy. Instead Edward Llewellyn, the British ambassador, was subjected to a two-hour roasting by angryÃâà...
New York Times
April 11, 2018
But the most recent results from two surveys — one nationwide in France, the other limited to one region — caused scientists to sound an alarm, because the results suggest that agricultural methods are hurting birds, according to Benoit Fontaine, a conservation biologist at the National Museum of NaturalÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 2, 2018
Now France have backed Spain to be the new home of Europe's navy after March 29, 2019 - and Italian officials are furious. The French and Spanish Defence Ministers agreed the stitch-up this week, declaring that 'Operation Atalanta' against piracy in the Indian Ocean needs a Spanish base. The CadizÃâà...
Haaretz
April 2, 2018
France reminded Israeli authorities "of their duty to protect civilians" and urged them to "show the greatest restraint." "France also highlights the Palestinians' right to peacefully demonstrate," the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said in a statement. Female Palestinian medic Razan Al-Najar reacts to tear gasÃâà...
ESPN FC
April 2, 2018
Paul Pogba believes France have the potential to win the World Cup, but has told Telefoot the demanding French public need to support the team, not criticise them. France will travel to Russia this summer as one of the favourites to win the tournament as coach Didier Deschamps boasts one of theÃâà...
The Diplomat
April 2, 2018
As I have noted before in these pages, Vietnam and France have a long historical relationship, with France colonizing Vietnam as part of French Indochina and ruling the country until its defeat in the First Indochina War and the proclamation of Vietnamese independence in 1954. Contemporary ties wereÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 2, 2018
However, the brain disorder is often poorly understood. In France, campaigners say the state's treatment of autistic children is shameful and 50 years behind some other countries. The children have little access to mainstream schools and are often placed in psychiatric hospitals. Now, the government wantsÃâà...
MIT Technology Review
April 2, 2018
After announcing plans last week for France to spend nearly $2 billion on AI research and development, President Emmanuel Macron discussed with Wired how France and the EU could not just become global players in AI, but fill a big gap in how the technology is applied to modern society. The EuropeanÃâà...
Architectural Digest
March 31, 2018
Maria Pergay has designed some of the most famous metal furnishings of the last century, from wavelike daybeds to a multipart cocktail table that resembles an archipelago. But the unstoppable matron of modernism—born in Romania, based in France, and now in her 88th year—lives with very few of herÃâà...
ABC News
March 29, 2018
Starting next year, France will make it compulsory for children to attend school starting at the age of 3 years old, instead of the current age of 6, French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday. ... Add France as an interest to stay up to date on the latest France news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
Haaretz
March 29, 2018
France, unfortunately, is not the only country where Jews are being killed these days just for being Jews. It is also important to say that Jews have not been the only victims of Islamist terror in France in recent years. In the past three years alone, hundreds of French citizens have been killed in a number ofÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 29, 2018
His one and only mission on his first official visit to Israel was to clarify the extent to which France objects to destroying the Iran nuclear deal. The only way to go about that, Paris believed, was to send in the heavy guns. To that effect, the French foreign minister had backup. On the same day (March 26),Ãâà...
The Guardian
March 29, 2018
The killing of Knoll last Friday has raised questions about France's failure to tackle resurgent antisemitism. Last year, Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman, was beaten and thrown out of the window of her home. French president Emmanuel Macron attended Knoll's funeral on the outskirts ofÃâà...
HuffPost
March 29, 2018
“Anti-Semites are over-represented in the far-left and the far-right, making those parties ones that you don't want to be associated with,” Francis Kalifat, the director of Crif, an organization representing the country's Jewish groups, said before the marches, according to Agence France-Presse. “They shouldÃâà...
POLITICO.eu
March 29, 2018
Macron's aim is nothing less than to drag his country into the age of AI and erase 30 years of underperformance on innovation. “We missed all the big technological revolutions of recent years, but France has a card to play in the field of artificial intelligence,” said an aide to the president who asked not to beÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 29, 2018
A hunt was underway Thursday for a man who tried to ram his car into soldiers jogging near their barracks in southeast France, without causing any injuries, the army said. The man first threatened a group of soldiers who were out jogging at around 8am in Varces-Allieres-et-Risset, near Grenoble, and laterÃâà...
The Local France
March 29, 2018
The soldiers were jogging by the side of the road and had to throw themselves out of the way to avoid the car, according to France Info. The troops were left shocked but unhurt. A hunt was underway for the driver, who insulted another group of soldiers after the aborted attack, before speeding off, sourcesÃâà...
Bad Left Hook
March 25, 2018
Abel Sanchez went three for three, with 154-pound contender Michel Soro and his two other charges getting wins in Marseille, France on Saturday. “Like I thought and told you easy decision or late stoppage, John Vera is a good young fighter but not ready for this level,” Sanchez messaged from France.
The Local France
March 25, 2018
People stand next to flowers laid in front of the Gendarmerie Nationale in Carcassonne on March 24th. Photo: AFP. AFP. news.france@thelocal.com Ãâ÷ @thelocalfrance. 25 March 2018. 08:12 CEST+02:00. Along with a heroic police officer who offered himself as a hostage, the victims of the jihadist shootingÃâà...
The Guardian
March 24, 2018
France's forces of law and order have repeatedly been singled out by Islamic extremists in the past three years since a state of emergency was introduced in January 2015 after the attack on Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a Jewish supermarket in Paris. January 2015: The Kouachi brothers, who gunnedÃâà...
euronews
March 24, 2018
In spring 2013, Syria's government lost the city of Raqqa to rebel militants. It would later become the de facto capital of the so-called Islamic State (ISIL), a jihadist terror group. Raqqa was also home to the Khatib family, who offered shelter to international journalists at their house as the conflict escalated.
The Local France
March 24, 2018
Roland Busch, a member of the management board of Siemens, is to serve as chairman of the board of directors of the combined entity, which is to be based in France. Siemens will control 50 percent of Alstom immediately but will be blocked from taking a bigger than 50.5 percent stake for the four comingÃâà...
Voice of America
March 24, 2018
The government of France announced new measures against sexual wrongdoing Wednesday, including fines for sexual harassment. It also extended the time limit for rape accusations. President Emmanuel Macron has said the bill is designed to make sure “women are not afraid to be outside.” Last year, aÃâà...
The Hill
March 24, 2018
The accused gunman, Moroccan-born French national Radouane Lakdim, died after exchanging gunfire with police on the scene. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the horrible attack in France yesterday, and we grieve the nation's loss. We also condemn the violent actions of the attackerÃâà...
TIME
March 23, 2018
(PARIS) — An armed man took hostages in a supermarket in southern France on Friday, killing at least one and seriously wounding another. He had earlier opened fire on police nearby. An interior ministry spokesman told BFM television the attacker was still in the supermarket. It was not clear if there were still peopleÃâà...
