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French President Macron tests positive for COVID-19

By Sylvie Corbet, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published Thursday, December 17, 2020 PARIS – Wearing a white medical mask, French President Emmanuel Macron went ahead with a planned speech by videoconference Thursday,Read More

IS widow convicted in Charlie Hebdo, kosher market attacks

By LORI HINNANT, The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The fugitive widow of an Islamic State gunman and a man described as his logistician were convicted Wednesday of terrorism charges Read More

French prosecutors seek prison term for ex-president Sarkozy in graft trial

By FRANCE24, AFP08/12/2020 Prosecutors in the graft trial of French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday called for him to be sentenced to a prison term of four years of which Read More

France to expel 231 suspected extremists after attack on teacher:source

By REUTERS PARIS (Reuters) – France is preparing to expel 231 foreigners on a government watch list for suspected extremist religious beliefs, a police union source said on Sunday, two Read More

A family’s 76-year quest for truth — and justice ( La version française suit)

Biram Senghor visits the land in Diakhao, Senegal, where his father lived before going to Europe to fight in World War II. (John Wessels for The Washington Post) By THE Read More

A family’s 76-year quest for truth — and justice ( La version française suit)

Biram Senghor visits the land in Diakhao, Senegal, where his father lived before going to Europe to fight in World War II. (John Wessels for The Washington Post) By THE Read More

FRANCE: Widow condemns “barbaric” death of bus driver beaten over masks

BAYONNE, France (Associated Press) — The wife of a French bus driver who was beaten to death after he asked four passengers to wear face masks aboard his vehicle called Read More

France: Parliamentary Commission Begins Investigating Government Response to Coronavirus

Image may be subject to copyright By GOBAL LEGAL MONITOR, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (June 22, 2020) On June 2, 2020, a special commission of the National Assembly, one of two Read More

FRANCE: Mayor Griveaux’s resignation after sex video of Russian artist / Russischer Künstler Pawlenski von Polizei festgenommen

The German version follows after the English. The translation from German to English is by Google Translate. By SPIEGEL Paris Candidate Mayor Griveaux’s resignation after sex video of Russian artist Read More

Claire Bretécher ist tot / Claire Bretécher is dead (English version follows the German one)

Ihre Comics “Die Frustrierten” und “Agrippina” machten Claire Bretécher weit über ihre Heimat Frankreich hinaus berühmt und beeinflussten Künstler wie Ralf König. Mit 79 Jahren ist sie nun gestorben. By Read More