Chad has put an end to the longtime military alliance with France, the former colonial ruler of the country, effectively ending France’s military influence in the troubled stretch of countries below the Sahara known as the Sahel after similar moves by Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso.
By hiding the closeness of its relationship with the US government, the world’s largest consortium of investigative journalism, the OCCRP, has played into the hands of the planet’s worst dictators, like Vladimir Putin, who sees a foreign agent behind any journalist who disturbs his regime’s status quo, writes Fabrice Arfi in this op-ed article.
Charles Kushner, father of Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and a real-estate developer who pleaded guilty to federal charges of tax evasion, campaign finance offences and witness tampering before being pardoned during Trump's first term in office, has been chosen by the US president-elect to be the next US ambassador to France.
According to news agency reports, French President Emmanuel Macron has sent a letter to his Senagalese counterpart Bassirou Diomaye Faye saying 'France must recognise that [...] the confrontation between soldiers and riflemen who demanded their full legitimate wages be paid, triggered a chain of events that resulted in a massacre' of African infantrymen who served for France in WWII.
The first video and still images of the completed 700-million euro restoration of Notre Dame cathedral, which was badly damaged by a fire in 2019, have been released as President Emmanuel Macron on Friday visisted the landmark ahead of its reopening to the public on December 7th.
As Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and her council majority continue to roll out measures to restrict motor traffic and encourage cycling in the French capital, the latest being a ban on through-traffic in the city centre, opinions are divided.
Bernard Arnault, 75, the CEO of French luxury goods group LVMH, appeared in court on Thursday as a witness at the trial of former French intelligence director Bernard Squarcini who he hired as a security chief, and who is accused of using state agents to counter a blackmailer targeting Arnault, and also when mounting an intelligence-gathering operation targeting journalist and leftwing MP François Ruffin.
As the French government, led by former minister and EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, approaches a possible fatal no confidence vote in parliament next week over its budget proposals, an Ifop-Fiducial opinion survey for Sud Radio published on Thursday found 53% of those polled wanted Barnier and his ministers to step down.
The French government has changed its earlier position on the arrest warrants for war crimes issued by the International Criminal Court against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant, which was initially that it would arrest the men if they landed on French soil.
Evelyne de Pontbriand, who transformed her family's winemaking domain, more than five centuries old, into a showcase for organic vinyards, and who became a voice for sustainable agriculture, has died at the age of 73.
The South African poet, author and artist Breyten Breytenbach, whose outspoken opposition to the apartheid regime led to him being jailed for seven years and forced into decades of exile in France, has died in Paris at the age of 85.
As the trial in Avignon, southern France, of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men accused of raping over several years Pelicot's wife Gisèle, who he sedated into an unconscious state for the acts to take place, draws to an end, prosecutors have demanded he serve a maximum sentence of 20 years behind bars.
Marine Le Pen, figurehead and parliamentary leader of France's far-right Rassemblement National party, left talks with Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Monday centred on a looming parliamentary vote on the country's 2025 budget, complaining he made no concessions and raising the possibility that her party will join in a no confidence vote against Barnier's minority government.
With the Baltic state seeking to enforce the use of the Latvian language in public media, the need to ensure that the sizeable Russian-speaking population in the country still has access to reliable information has become a critical issue. This is now the mission of Latvian journalist Inna Plavoka, the founder of an independent Russian-language local media outlet that is growing in popularity despite some hostility and suspicion after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Estelle Levresse reports.
Marches were held in Paris and cities and towns across France on Saturday to protest the widespread crimes of violence perpetrated specifically against women, an issue highlighted by the ongoing trial of 51 men accused of raping over several years the wife of one of them while she was unconscious.
