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PARIS (AFP) – Two Nobel Prize-winning economists on Saturday (Sept 26) urged France to consider an Advent lockdown so that family Christmas celebrations can go…
View More Nobel economists urge Advent coronavirus lockdown in France 'to save Christmas'
PARIS • France opened an anti-terror investigation after two journalists were stabbed in Paris yesterday near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine…
View More 2 stabbed near Charlie Hebdo's old offices
PARIS (REUTERS) – The United States’ maximum pressure campaign on Iran has so far failed, France’s president said on Tuesday (Sept 22), and he dismissed…
View More US maximum pressure on Iran is not working, France's Macron tells UN
PARIS (REUTERS) – France registered a record 10,593 new confirmed coronavirus in the past 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Thursday (Sept 17), the…
View More France reports highest number of new Covid-19 cases in a day
PARIS (REUTERS) – Hundreds of workers at Covid-19 laboratories in France went on strike on Thursday (Sept 17), a trade union said, angry over poor…
View More Burned out and abused: French Covid-19 testers strike over work conditions
PARIS (AFP) – A man arrested over a string of attacks on horses that have shocked France was released on Tuesday (Sept 8), prosecutors said.…
View More France releases horse mutilations suspect
PARIS (REUTERS) – Coronavirus has forced 12 schools in mainland France to close, but the rest of the almost 60,000 opened as planned at the…
View More 12 mainland French schools closed due to coronavirus
PARIS (AFP) – France led criticism of US sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday (Sept 3), saying Washington…
View More France leads criticism of US sanctions 'attack' on International Criminal Court
PARIS (AFP) – French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the target of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in 2015, said on Tuesday (Sept 1) it was…
View More France's Charlie Hebdo republishes Mohammed cartoons for trial start
BEIRUT (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron began his trip to Beirut on Monday by visiting Fairouz, one of the Arab world’s most famous singers…
View More Macron reassures protesters after meeting Lebanon's symbol of unity, singer Fairouz
PARIS (AFP) – A senior French military officer stationed at a Nato base has been indicted and detained on suspicion of spying for Russia, local…
View More France detains senior military officer suspected of spying
Home caregivers who helped the elderly and people with disabilities during the coronavirus pandemic to receive a bonus. French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that…
View More France to pay home caregivers coronavirus bonus by year's end
PARIS (AFP) – France on Friday (Aug 28) said there had been an “exponential” rise in coronavirus cases with more than 7,000 new infections in…
View More France says 'exponential' rise in coronavirus cases
PARIS (AFP) – France’s prime minister on Thursday (Aug 27) announced face masks will become compulsory throughout Paris, expressing concern over an “undeniable” trend of…
View More Masks compulsory in all Paris as coronavirus cases rise