The Palestinian cause lost one of its most active defenders before international judicial bodies. Gilles Devers, a lawyer from Lyon who helped bring this issue…
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The first time The World met him, he was wearing a Roman collar and a small silver cross pinned to his jacket pocket, and went…
France announced Monday, November 25, a new campaign to combat violence against women, including raising awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse,…
It was the last week of May. A bourgeois Parisian dinner party was being held near the Luxembourg Gardens. The evening’s hosts were entertaining three…
Six men linked to Juventus and France midfielder Paul Pogba face trial from Tuesday, November 26, accused of blackmail, attempted extorsion of millions of euros…
In line for a book signing by the far-right Rassemblement National party’s president, Jordan Bardella, in southern France, November 22, 2024. SANDRA MEHL FOR THE…
On September 12, 2020, Jean-François Mayet, on call at the prosecutor’s office in the southeastern French town of Carpentras, was informed about the arrest of…
Hold me back or you’ll see! Despite being hampered by a trial for charges of embezzling EU Parliament funds in a fake jobs scheme…
Mark Twain wrote that “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” A lie has gone…
Secretary-General of the Elysée Palace Alexis Kohler in Strasbourg, France, November 23, 2024. SARAH MEYSSONNIER / REUTERS French President Emmanuel Macron’s chief of staff Alexis…
French prosecutors on Tuesday, November 26, demanded sentences of up to 15 years for the remaining co-defendants in the trial of a man charged…
This Tuesday, the iconic El Molino venue in Barcelona hosted the first edition of La Nit d’Els40 to recognize Catalan music in 2024. Figa Flawas…
French supermarket group Carrefour attempted on Tuesday, November 26, to end a supplier “boycott” of its stores in Brazil by apologizing for refusing to…
The French presidency on Tuesday, November 26, issued a categorical denial that President Emmanuel Macron had predicted that the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier…
The only debate between the three candidates to lead Esquerra was reduced this Tuesday to practically an exchange of speeches, with white gloves, between the…
A key measure of France’s sovereign borrowing costs hit a 12-year high on Tuesday, November 26, indicating growing investor concern over the government’s stability following…
Fifty-one men of all ages, professions and origins have been on trial in Avignon, southern France, since September. All but one, who is on the…
At least two people died this Tuesday morning when an Alvia train ran over a van where the victims were, Adif workers at the high-speed…
A dozen entities in the book sector of the Valencian Community have denounced this Tuesday that the Generalitat has left them without ordinary aid “in…
Good morning. We start the live narration of the last hour of political news on this Tuesday, November 26. The judge of Koldo caseIsmael Moreno,…
Actions against the touristification of mountain regions are gaining momentum in Catalonia. The anonymous collective Els Trinxats, born in Cerdanya, has been granted the cancellation…
French mass rape trial: Court to hear prosecutors’ sentencing requests With evidence over in the trial of a man who drugged his wife for years…
Warning: This text contains descriptions of sexual violence. At first glance, with its medieval city walls and charming alleyways, the French town of Avignon…
Marine Le Pen criticises French prosecutors for seeking a ‘political death sentence’ The French far-right leader says her embezzlement trial is “politicised” and denounces prosecutors…
UN experts call France’s hijab ban in sports ‘discriminatory’ UN human rights experts have criticised France’s decisions to ban women and girls wearing the hijab…