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France in talks with Kabul on returning migrants
France does not formally recognize, or maintain diplomatic relations with, the Taliban government formed after the...
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Calls mount to ban French TV channel CNews after racist killing
On Monday, a petition calling for the closure of CNews, a channel part of conservative French billionaire Vincent...
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France expels five Britons arrested for harrassing migrants
The five men, from an 'ultra-right movement,' were arrested on Thursday while broadcasting live footage online near...
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Hermès, the millions of missing shares and the questions over LVMH's role
Nicolas Puech, one of the heirs to the luxury leather goods maker, accused his former wealth manager of having...
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French economy shrinks 0.1 percent in third quarter
Worries about France's high debt and deficits have sent its government bond yields soaring in recent weeks.
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Austrian far-right nationalist says he was denied entry into France
Martin Sellner said he had been barred from entering France after authorities banned a far-right conference on the...
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François Sureau: 'France's crisis has been fueled by political leaders' tendency to play games with the popular will'
In an interview with Le Monde, writer and lawyer François Sureau, a defender of civil liberties, examines the roles...
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Hundreds of thousands rally across France to demand higher wages and school funding
The Interior Ministry estimated that 600,000 people demonstrated, while labor unions claimed a figure of 1.6 million.
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Six Picasso prints stolen from restaurant near Cannes recovered one month later
Three suspected burglars and four accomplices believed to have stolen works by the Spanish painter were arrested on...
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Bardella's book launch overshadowed by renewed scrutiny of antisemitic remarks
An event on Wednesday was interrupted by activists and marked by the refusal to admit journalists who broke the...
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In a Marseille school, students hesitate over the future of their protest movement
At the Diderot public high school in the working-class Malpassé neighborhood, the start of the school year was marked...
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French students, unions and Yellow Vest protestors bet on common front in new strike
As student organizations called for workers' support, labor unions urged people across France to strike and...
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European banks wake up to scale of vulnerability after cyberattack on French bank
Hackers managed to steal part of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa's equity capital in an unprecedented attack on European finance.
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2027 French presidential election: To fend off Le Pen and Mélenchon, Macron recommends wide coalition
French President Emmanuel Macron believes that only a broad alliance within the political center can prevent a Le...
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Investigation Law enforcement: A month of serious injuries at protests
Many people have been injured since the start of the French high school protests, particularly after the October 17...
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Macron appoints Guillaume Cerutti to head the Château de Versailles
Cerutti, who recently served briefly as president of the Pinault collection, will replace Christophe Leribault, who...
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French interior minister acknowledges 'failure' at parliamentary inquiry into October 17 unrest
Questioned by French MPs on Tuesday, November 3, Lauren Nuñez acknowledged a 'failure to anticipate' the violence of...
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Lyon coach Paulo Fonseca ditches club for Sporting Lisbon
While thanking Fonseca for his commitment, Lyon expressed 'deep regret' regarding what they described as an...
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Cyberattack targets French blood banks
No blood products were compromised after there was an attempt to raise temperatures to extremely high levels at...
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Students blockade dozens of high schools and universities across France
Authorities said 48 out of France's 3,700 high schools were blocked, including in cities such as Paris, Rennes,...
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Paris department store BHV: 'Unions hope court-ordered receivership will finally end disastrous management'
When Frédéric Merlin took over the department store in 2023, BHV Marais was already struggling. But his decision to...
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Depression: Gender inequality is at the root of women's vulnerability
In a report published on Monday, November 2, France's High Council for Gender Equality finds that women's higher risk...
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Paris department store BHV receives bankruptcy protection
The iconic Parisian department store BHV was placed in administration on November 2, 2026, marking the latest twist...
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Parents accused of torturing, killing and abandoning child stand trial, three decades later
Halima El Bakhti and Ahmed Touloub are appearing before a criminal court in the Loire Valley from Monday, charged...
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French high schoolers return from break with protest turnout uncertain but vows to 'keep up pressure'
Despite the government's commitments, high school and university groups have called for school blockades starting...
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French presidential election: Philippe rejects Attal's proposal for center-right primary
Speaking on French television on Sunday, Edouard Philippe ruled out a proposal to hold a primary to select a single...
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Macron's 10 years of ambiguity on the far right's media and culture wars
'The Macron Years' (3/3). Since 2017, Vincent Bolloré's media empire has entrenched its reactionary ideology in...
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'I am protesting so that we can protest': Festive and determined demonstrators march across France amid heavy police presence
Around half a million people marched across France on Saturday, according to organizers (320,000 according to the...
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With his constant provocations, the far-right mayor of Carcassonne is over the line. Or is he?
The elected official from the southwest grew in politics alongside Marine Le Pen. Ruling his city with a firm hand,...
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Thousands of Germans join Europe's 'Gen-Z' protests
The 'GenZ reglet!' group organized protests in dozens of cities across Germany, inspired by movements across Europe,...
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Is a 'beautiful' French election still possible?
Since the violence on the sidelines of the October 17 protests, a spiraling escalation has taken hold in France,...
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After the Trappes terrorist attack, a community hopes that France will wake up to the far-right threat
Emotion ran high during the memorial ceremony held on Friday in Trappes, one week after a racist terrorist attack...
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How social media has shaped France's protest movement
The scale of online mobilization initially appeared to have caught the government off guard. It is now threatening to...
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Map of banned and planned demonstrations in Paris
As a third Saturday of protest is planned for October 31, authorities are seeking to prevent a repeat of October 17,...
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Third weekend of French protests brings hundreds of thousands to the streets, with clashes erupting in some cities after marches
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said the marches, which were held under heavy security, had been largely peaceful....
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Gisèle Pelicot's new status as a global icon
Since the February publication of her book, a bestseller translated into more than 40 languages, Gisèle Pelicot has...
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Hakimi bags hat-trick as PSG demolish Le Havre 5-1
Achraf Hakimi stepped up for a heavily rotated Paris Saint-Germain on Friday, with coach Luis Enrique resting Désiré...
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Fitch maintains France's credit rating at A+ but downgrades its outlook from stable to negative
The US agency predicted that the debt level for the European Union's second-biggest economy would rise from to 124%...
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France boards up ahead of third Saturday of protests
France has been rocked by widespread anger over the rising cost of living and inequality, with authorities warning of...
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French presidential hopeful Edouard Philippe questioned in alleged embezzlement case
Two investigating magistrates handling allegations of misuse of public funds, favoritism and harassment designated...
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Trappes shooting suspect, charged with premeditated and attempted terrorist murder, admits to targeting people 'of Muslim or African appearance'
The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office clarified on Thursday that the schizophrenia diagnosis mentioned by...