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A third of France's population was under a new partial lockdown Saturday to stop the spread of Covid-19, as some European countries resumed AstraZeneca vaccinations following an all-clear from EU regulators and the WHO. Advertising Read more The pandemic is still speeding up worldwide, with the number of new global coronavirus infections rising by 14 percent over the last week compared to...

Issued on: 10/07/2020 - 08:49Modified: 10/07/2020 - 08:51 French investigating magistrates will probe claims that human corpses donated for sc...

Issued on: 20/02/2020 - 11:57Modified: 20/02/2020 - 11:57 Paris Saint-Germain chief Nasser Al-Khelaifi and FIFA's disgraced former secretary g...

Issued on: 20/02/2020 - 18:31Modified: 20/02/2020 - 22:50 Often called “the world's most beautiful avenue”, the French capital's iconic Champs...

Issued on: 28/01/2020 - 19:14Modified: 28/01/2020 - 19:14 France will send a plane this week to start evacuating its citizens from Wuhan, the ...

After six years as Paris mayor, Ae Hidalgo’s re-election bid is in full swing. With Parisians heading to the ballot box in March, the Spanish-bo Socialist leads a crowded...

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Issued on: 22/11/2019 - 14:10Modified: 22/11/2019 - 14:09 From the Caribbean intellectuals of the 1920s and 30s who used Paris as their base, ...

Date created : 09/01/2019 - 13:22 Belgian authorities have arrested another suspect in coection with the Paris terror attacks of November 2015, charging him with participating in the activities of ...

Friday’s attack on the French embassy in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou is the fifth in a series of attacks on French embassies in Africa since 2000. Mauritania, 8 August 2009: Three people, two of them French gendarmes, were slightly injured in an Islamist bomb blast on the country’s embassy in the capital Nouakchott – the first suicide bomb...

Dozens of people were killed Friday in twin attacks on the French embassy in Burkina Faso and the country's military headquarters, an assault that coincided with a meeting of regional anti-jihadist forces. The apparently coordinated attacks underlined the struggle the fragile West African nation faces in containing a bloody and gro...

Paris ground to a standstill this week after the heaviest snowfall in nearly 30 years, but was it really all that? Paris hit by “heavy snow”, proclaimed CNN, ABC News, UK newspapers The Telegraph and the Evening Standard, and a host of other media outlets. Not to sound like the current occupant of the White House, but this New Yorker is calling those screamers Fake News and the Parisian response to the white powder covering the French capital, well, sad. Yes, it’s true that snow rarely manages to get a foothold on the ground here and is normally – quite fittingly – lovely and never in excess. But Tuesday’s snow stuck and was abundant enough to allow for more than a few impromptu ...

A Belgian court must acquit Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam over a shootout with police because of a legal language mix-up between Dutch and French, his defence lawyer said Thursday. Abdeslam, 28, refused to come to court in Brussels on Thursday, after accusing judges on the first day of the trial on Monday of being anti-Muslim and proclaiming he would only put his "trust in Allah". In Abdeslam's absence, lawyer Sven Mary sought the case's dismissal over a technicality in how the judges were named to investigate the gunbattle in Brussels in March 2016, in which three police offers were wounded. "It's a very Belgian story," said Mary, explaining that the top counter-terror ju...

The swollen Seine rose even higher on Sunday, keeping Paris on alert, though forecasters said the flooding should peak by the end of the day. The river had risen 11 centimetres (4.3 inches) in 24 hours by Saturday evening, more than four metres above its normal height, causing headaches for commuters as well as people living near its overflowing banks. Tourists suffered too with the capital's famous Bateaux Mouches rivercraft out of service, and only emergency services authorised to navigate the Seine. The Vigicrues flooding agency forecasts the river will peak at 5.95 metres (19.3 feet) oveight, not quite reaching the 2016 high of 6.1 metres, when the Louvre museum was forced to...

The trial of Jawad Bendaoud, landlord to two of the November 13 Paris attackers, became something of a spectacle in the French press this week with the defendant being mocked for his unintentionally comic testimony. Bendaoud, a 31-year-old drug dealer and landlord, rented his apartment in the northe Paris suburb of Saint-Denis to Abdelhamid Abaaoud -- the senior Islamic State (IS) group militant suspected of coordinating the attacks that killed 130 people -- and his accomplice Chakib Akrouh. The French press dubbed him the "landlord of Daesh", referring to the IS group by another acronym. Bendaoud maintains that he did not know who the men were. The three-week trial...

Jawad Bendaoud, the man who housed two of the perpetrators of the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris, appeared in court on Wednesday on charges of harbouring terrorists. Bendaoud rented his apartment north of the French capital to Abdelhamid Abaaoud -- the senior Islamic State (IS) group militant suspected of coordinating the attacks that killed 130 people -- and his accomplice Chakib Akrouh. The French press dubbed him the "landlord of Daesh", referring to the IS group by another acronym. The Paris Criminal Court will determine whether 31-year-old Bendaoud, himself a convicted killer, was unaware of their involvement when he hosted the November 13 attackers or if he was an acco...

The Seine continued to rise Thursday, covering quays in muddy water and putting museums on an emergency footing as record rainfall pushed rivers over their banks across northeaste France. The Seine is expected to reach a peak of up to 6.2 metres (20.3 feet) in the capital this Saturday on a scale used to measure its levels, four to five metres above its normal height. The December-January period is now the third-wettest on record since data started being collected in 1900, according to the national weather service, Meteo France. Many regions have seen double the rainfall than normal, including Paris where 183 millimetres (7.2 inches) have been dumped since December 1...

The relentless rain over Paris, which caused the river Seine to burst its banks, has tued transport into a nightmare for tourists and commuters alike, halting train and boat services. Furthermore, rats are wreaking havoc on the streets of Paris! “Of course the floods [have] made us upset because we don’t have the Seine cruises,” a frustrated tourist told FRANCE 24 near the overflowing river, but insisted that did not change how he feels for the city. “I love Paris anyhow,” he said. Australian tourist Debbie Komorowski, visiting the city for the fifth time, said, “Two years ago we had our wedding aiversary here, on the bench over there [on the Île de la Cité island in...

The main defendant in the first trial stemming from the November 2015 Paris terror attacks told a Paris court this week that he had no idea that the two men to whom he rented his suburban apartment following the caage were jihadists. "No one told me that I was sheltering terrorists," a tearful Jawad Bendaoud told the packed Paris court as the trial began on Wednesday. "I swear on the head of my son that I didn't know they were terrorists." Bendaoud rented the flat north of the French capital to Abdelhamid Abaaoud – a senior Islamic State (IS) group jihadist suspected of coordinating the attacks that killed 130 people – and his accomplice Chakib Akrouh. Appearing nervous and confu...