A French court has ruled as illegal a major police operation planned for Tuesday to expel Comoran migrants from a shanty town on France's Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte, where a crackdown on illegal immigration and delinquency has begun backed by security forces sent from the mainland.
China has swiftly clarified that its ambassador to France was wrong to question the sovereignty of post-Soviet Union states like Ukraine in an interview with French television channel TF1.
At the end of a protracted judicial process, a Paris court has convicted Lebanese-Canadian university professor Hassan Diab, 69, of planting a motorcycle bomb in the Rue Copernic in central Paris on October 3rd 1980, killing four people and wounding 38 others.
The European politicians accused the services of British Home Secretary Suella Braverman of infringing basic human rights and abusing anti-terrorism laws when Ernest Moret, a rights manager at the French radical publisher Éditions la Fabrique, travelled to London earlier this week for a book fair and was interrogated by UK counter-terrorist police, who confiscated his computer, about his political views and “anti-government” contacts.
A transcript hidden for more than 60 years detailing an interview with Louis-Ferdinand Céline, regarded as one of the great 20th-century French writers but also infamous for his anti-Semitic essays and for supporting , during WWII, the Nazis and France's collaborationist regime, reveals that he declared Adolf Hitler’s great mistake was failing to “wipe out England” at the start of the war.
After promulgation of his unpopular pensions reform legislation last weekend, President Emmanuel Macron has attempted to turn the page by embarking on a series of visits around France where he has been met by boos from local demonstrators banging pots and pans and which police on Thursday dispersed with teargas.
In a 15-minute recorded televised address to the nation on Monday evening, French President Emmanuel Macron, whose popularity ratings have plummeted amid his widely contested reform of the state pension system, which he promulgated on Saturday, promised he would introduce new measures to improve working conditions and public services in what some observers regarded as a limp attempt to re-launch his troubled, final presidential term.
The aircraft manufacturer and France's national carrier were on Monday cleared of manslaughter charges brought against them for the crash of an Air France overnight flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in May 2009, when the Airbus fell into the sea off Brazil killing all 228 people on board.
French fashion house Dior, part of the LVMH luxury goods group, has been accused of racism on Chinese social media and in the country's press for posting a photo on its Instagram account, which it subsequently removed, of an East Asian model pulling up a corner of her eye, captioned 'Channel your feline fierceness'.
Protesters began gathering outside the Paris City Hall on Friday evening after President Emmanuel Macron's hotly contested legislation to reform the pensions system, which raises for most of the population the age of retirement on full pension rights to 64, was largely approved by France's Constitutional Council: follow this live coverage of reactions by clicking on the link below.
France's Constitutional Council on Friday approved most of the government's controversial legislation reforming the country's pension system, including raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, while it also rejected an application by opposition groups for a referendum on the issue.
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