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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

French soldiers kill more than 30 Islamist militants in Mali: army

PARIS (Reuters) – French soldiers killed more than 30 Islamist militants in Mali in three separate operations on Thursday and Friday targeting al Qaeda and Islamic State-linked groups, France’s armed Read More

PARENTING: It is not even a joke, full time life time job

Becks and Tasha in Paris in 2016, Photo copyrighted by Lefranc family All parents know that children no longer call the parents daily after they go away to University or Read More

Attacker kills 1, stabs multiple people near Paris before being shot dead by cops – local mayor

Police at the scene of Friday’s stabbing in Villejuif © Christophe Archambault / AFP By RT A man who stabbed three people at a park in a Paris suburb, killing Read More

France says it carried out first armed drone strike in Mali

PARIS (Associated Press) — France’s defense ministry announced Monday it had carried out its first armed drone strike, killing seven Islamic extremists in central Mali over the weekend. France joins Read More

West Africa economic bloc agrees changes to CFA franc with France: Ivorian president

France’s President Emmanuel Macron is welcomed by Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara at the Petit Palais in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, December 21, 2019. REUTERS/Luc Gnago ABIDJAN (Reuters) – The West Read More

French strikers angry about pension reform cut power to homes, companies

French Health and Solidarity Minister Agnes Buzyn and French High Commissioner for Pension Reform Laurent Pietraszewski leave the Elysee Palace following the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris, France, December 18,Read More