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Issued on: 12/06/2021 - 17:22 Unseeded Barbora Krejcikova won her first Grand Slam title by beating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 in the French Open final Saturday. Advertising Read more This was only the fifth major touament in singles for Krejcikova, a 25-year-old from the Czech Republic. She is the third unseeded women’s champion in the last five years at Roland Garros. Krejcikova now will try to become the first woman since Mary Pierce in 2000 to win the French Open singl...

Issued on: 24/07/2020 - 23:14 Paris Saint-Germain won the French Cup title on Friday but saw Kylian Mbappé limp off the pitch with an ankle in...

Issued on: 24/07/2020 - 18:32 French cinemas reopened on June 22 with a certain pomp after a three-month coronavirus hiatus. At least one Pari...

Issued on: 10/07/2020 - 05:10 The French equivalent of the Oscars aounced changes to ensure gender equality on Thursday, five months after i...

Issued on: 30/06/2020 - 11:16Modified: 30/06/2020 - 11:16 Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday that a five-year jail sentence for French-Iranian a...

Issued on: 18/05/2020 - 12:00Modified: 18/05/2020 - 12:00 Malian singer Rokia Traoré has flown home, flouting a ban issued by a French court w...

Issued on: 18/04/2020 - 10:22Modified: 18/04/2020 - 10:24 France on Friday said there was no factual evidence so far of a link between the Cov...

Issued on: 18/04/2020 - 12:13Modified: 18/04/2020 - 12:13 Reacting to an "economic emergency" due to the coronavirus pandemic and co...

Issued on: 02/04/2020 - 09:14Modified: 02/04/2020 - 09:14 Social workers handling precarious populations have been forced to adapt quickly, of...

Issued on: 06/03/2020 - 17:01Modified: 06/03/2020 - 17:01 Nurseries, kindergartens and schools in two departments worst affected by the corona...

As France braced to raise its coronavirus alert level waing to 3 and President Emmanuel Macron waed the public late Thursday that an epidemic was “inevitable”, reports of the ...

Issued on: 07/03/2020 - 15:12Modified: 07/03/2020 - 15:14 A French lawmaker has been hospitalised after contracting coronavirus, the National ...

France has traditionally taken pride in being somewhat of an exception when it comes to caring, or not caring, about the private lives of its politicians. This lax attitude has been called into question recently by theso-called Griveaux scandal. Benjamin Griveaux, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron, pulled out of the Paris mayoral race following the release of a sex tape. So are we witnessing the "Americanisation" of French politics? Is the atmosphere becoming more puritanical and moralising? And what role does social media play in all this? ...

With France’s film industry in the midst of a belated #MeToo awakening, the aual César Awards have set the stage for a showdown with feminist groups by handing Roman Polanski’s ...

Issued on: 13/02/2020 - 09:04Modified: 13/02/2020 - 09:04 French wine exports to the United States plunged by almost a fifth in the last quart...

Issued on: 13/02/2020 - 08:45Modified: 13/02/2020 - 08:45 Twice former European champion Nathalie Pechalat on Wednesday confirmed her candidac...

Issued on: 29/01/2020 - 11:35Modified: 29/01/2020 - 11:35 In this episode of Banlieue Project, we meet Yazid. Once a petty criminal, an electe...

Issued on: 20/01/2020 - 09:44Modified: 20/01/2020 - 09:44 Thousands of people opposed to France’s plans to reform the law on assisted reproduc...

Now in their 25th day, France’s nationwide strikes against the govement’s pension reform plans are the longest in more than 30 years. But how are strikers coping after nearly fo...

Issued on: 30/12/2019 - 21:21Modified: 30/12/2019 - 21:21 French restaurants are struggling to cope with the effects of ongoing nationwide str...