US President-elect Donald Trump will attend the weekend reopening of the restored Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, which was ravaged by a 2019 fire, he said Monday, December 2.
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The world was quiet from this height. The air was crisp. Cumulonimbus clouds, drifting away toward Montmartre, revealed the blue of the sky. A…
President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed a strategic partnership on Monday, December 2, aiming at deepening bilateral ties and…
What would happen if the Social Security budget for 2025 were not approved? On Monday, December 2, Prime Minister Michel Barnier forced the bill…
Riss, director of “Charlie Hebdo”, in Paris, March 2024. JOEL SAGET / AFP To mark the 10th anniversary of the attack on Charlie Hebdo on…
Photos of fentanyl users at an event organized by Facing Fentanyl, a non-profit awareness group made up of families impacted by this opioid, in New…
French prisoner Serge Atlaoui (L) is escorted by police upon his arrival at Tangerang court, outside Jakarta, on April 1, 2015. ROMEO GACAD / AFP…
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, November 29, inspected the gleaming restored interior of Notre-Dame de Paris, saying workers had done the “impossible” by healing a “national wound” caused by a 2019 fire that ravaged the medieval cathedral.
“What a waste of time!” sighed those close to him. But Bernard Arnault wouldn’t listen. France’s richest man dreams of that old-fashioned black suit embroidered…
A general view of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, during a visit by French President Macron, in Paris, France, on November 29, 2024. CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON…
Bernard Arnault, head of LVMH, leaves a Paris courthouse on November 28, 2024. STEPHANE MAHE/REUTERS On the morning of Thursday, November 28, in front of…
Emmanuel Macron in the nave of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, November 29, 2024. CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/AFP “We did it”: On Friday, November 29, Emmanuel Macron was…
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner, as the US ambassador to France, in the latest of…
“I recommend, as a first step, that you go on this chat [platform] – it’s run by trained volunteer police officers and gendarmes who will…
France’s hardline interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, on Friday, said Britain could no longer “sub-contract” Channel border security out to Paris. With no end in sight…
Five years after images of the Notre-Dame Cathedral on fire shocked the world, French President Emmanuel Macron visited the monument on Friday, November 29, and…
Mathias Pogba, Paul Pogba’s brother, on his arrival at a Paris court, November 26, 2024. ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT / AFP “What was planned was a meeting…
In her early 20s, “in the village” in the far west of Kenya, Jacinta Nafula became pregnant by her boyfriend. The father of her son,…
Paulette Brucale was shivering in her blue coat, but she didn’t complain she is from the older generation in France. They have seen of the…
France’s President Emmanuel Macron vowed Friday, November 29, to give Ukraine intense support in its battle against Russia’s “escalation” of its invasion, his office said.…
Ratings agency S&P maintained its grade for the French economy, saying on Friday, November 29, that the outlook was “stable” despite the European country’s mountain…
Béatrice Zavarro, Dominique Pelicot’s lawyer, in Avignon, November 26, 2024. CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP How to plead for Dominique Pelicot? What can you say in…
Justice is often depicted as the blindfolded goddess Themis, a symbol of impartiality. For almost three months now, in the Avignon criminal court, southern France,…
The ICC has been dealt a harsh blow by one of its founding states, which also prides itself on being the “homeland of human rights.” On Wednesday, France issued a cryptic statement undermining both the authority of this judicial body and the arrest warrant issued six days earlier by its judges against Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the context of the war in Gaza.
France’s richest man, LVMH chief Bernard Arnault, testified on Thursday, November 28, in the influence-peddling trial of the former head of France’s domestic intelligence agency,…