The artillery coalition for Ukraine, co-led by France and the US, launches in Paris. France will give 12 more Caesar self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine, French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu…
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France’s Macron shifts to right on schools and birth rate
French President Emmanuel Macron has come off the fence and opened the way for policies that are unmistakably on the political right. That is the unanimous verdict after he gave…
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France to reform parental leave after births hit post-war low
by Adan Siuranaby Adan SiuranaFrench President Emmanuel Macron promised on Tuesday to overhaul parental leave so it pays better after France saw the lowest number of births since World War Two last year, in…
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France’s Louvre Museum Closed After Bomb Threat
The Louvre Museum in Paris was closed on Saturday for security reasons. “For security reasons, the Louvre Museum is closing its doors today,” announced the museum’s account on X, formerly…
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France Raises Its Security Alert to Highest Level After School Attack
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has put the country on its highest security alert after an assailant fatally knifed a teacher and injured three other people in the northern French…
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France Arranges Repatriation Flights From Israel
The French government will arrange more chartered flights on Oct. 13 and 14 to repatriate its nationals currently stranded in Israel, the country’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs said…
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Senior CPC Official Visits France
by Calvin Smithby Calvin SmithLiu Jianchao, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, led a CPC delegation on a visit to France from Oct. 8 to 11.…
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Egypt, France Discuss Efforts to Contain Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in Gaza
by Denis Galvezby Denis GalvezEgyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron held phone talks on Saturday during which they discussed regional and international efforts to contain the ongoing deadly Palestinian-Israeli conflict…
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The Fading Influence of France in Francophone Africa
Brussels, Frankfurt (10/11 -12) Words like ‘neocolonialism’ and ‘neo-imperialists’ are being tossed around by spokesmen of freshly-installed military regimes in Central and West Africa – but the language of their…
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Spain Women’s Team Agrees to Travel for Sweden Game
The crisis which threatened to see the Spanish women’s team miss out on the chance of qualifying for the Olympic Games seems to have been averted, at least for the…