Paris 2024
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News
7/9/2024 2:39:08 PM
French marathon runner Mehdi Frere, selected for the Paris Olympics, has been banned for two years for breaching anti-doping rules, his lawyer told AFP on Tuesday.
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World
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International
7/9/2024 11:59:10 AM
France's political parties sought to project strength and gather allies on Tuesday, with the government adrift following a Sunday parliamentary election in which no one force claimed a clear majority.
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Sports
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World
7/9/2024 11:02:19 AM
The battle between the two most successful national sides of the new millennium, Tuesday's Euro 2024 semi-final between France and Spain, also showcases two contrasting styles.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
7/8/2024 6:39:51 PM
Europe's main equity markets and the euro rebounded from initial losses on Monday as investors digested snap French elections in which a hung parliament appeared the likeliest outcome.
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World
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International
7/8/2024 4:56:00 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron refused the resignation of the country’s prime minister, asking him on Monday to remain temporarily as the head of the government after chaotic election results left the government in limbo.
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World
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International
7/8/2024 3:20:30 PM
Marine Le Pen's far-right party was poised Monday to strike an alliance with that of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the EU parliament, a day after being dealt a surprise defeat in French elections.
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World
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International
7/7/2024 10:59:00 PM
A coalition on the left that came together unexpectedly ahead of France’s snap elections won the most parliamentary seats in the vote, according to polling projections Sunday. The surprise projections put President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance in second and the far right in third.
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Sports
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Omni sports
7/7/2024 1:39:40 PM
Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz targets the Wimbledon quarter-finals on Sunday against a piano-playing Frenchman, while Emma Raducanu has British fans dreaming of a first home women's champion in 47 years.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
7/7/2024 11:02:15 AM
Egyptian artists Marwa Nagy, Reham Abdel-Hakim, and Amira Selim will take the stage of Paris's Salle Gaveau in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Egyptian-French diplomatic relations.
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World
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International
7/7/2024 9:15:05 AM
French voters face a decisive choice Sunday in the runoff of snap parliamentary elections that could produce the country’s first far-right government since the World War II Nazi occupation — or no majority emerging at all.
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World
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International
7/5/2024 6:27:36 PM
Candidates in France's pivotal and polarizing legislative elections were making their last pushes on Friday for the second and decisive round of voting after a three-week campaign marked by hate speech, verbal abuse and physical attacks.
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Sports
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Omni sports
7/5/2024 5:39:33 PM
French Open runner-up Jasmine Paolini became the first player to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon after beating 2109 U.S. Open champion Bianca Andreescu 7-6 (4), 6-1 on Friday.
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Sports
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World
7/5/2024 10:53:29 AM
Brazilian defender Abner Vinicius has signed a five-year deal with Lyon, the seven-time French league champion said Friday.
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Sports
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Africa
7/4/2024 10:13:27 PM
Senegal international Moussa Niakhate has signed a four-year deal with Lyon from Nottingham Forest, the French club announced on Thursday.
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Egypt
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Society
7/4/2024 7:41:39 PM
Ayman Ashour, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, witnessed the signing of the largest framework agreement for international partnership between Egyptian and French universities.
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World
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International
7/4/2024 6:16:43 PM
French far-right three-time presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Thursday said her National Rally (RN) party was still capable of winning an absolute majority in the second round of legislative elections this weekend.
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Sports
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Omni sports
7/3/2024 5:04:27 PM
Wimbledon has a new member of its heavy artillery in the shape of giant 20-year-old Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.
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World
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International
7/3/2024 4:56:52 PM
France's prime minister on Wednesday urged voters to form a united front to block the far right in legislative elections, warning the anti-immigration party of Marine Le Pen was the only faction capable of winning an absolute majority.
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World
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International
7/2/2024 6:00:48 PM
A far-right candidate on Tuesday dropped out of the race for France's parliament over a social media post showing her in a Nazi cap, a party official told French media.
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World
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International
7/2/2024 2:37:45 PM
French candidates faced a Tuesday deadline to stay in or quit the weekend's runoff election, with over 160 withdrawing so far in an effort to block the far right from winning an absolute majority.
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