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Life & Style
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Health
1/18/2023 12:11:02 PM
A French nun who was believed to be the world’s oldest person has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, the spokesperson for her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday.
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Sports
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World
1/17/2023 1:27:49 PM
The president of the French Football Federation, Noel Le Graet, has been placed under investigation for sexual harassment, prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday.
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World
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Region
1/16/2023 11:31:32 PM
Up to 12,000 people marched Monday to the EU Parliament in the eastern French city of Strasbourg in support of Iran’s anti-government protesters while the Eiffel Tower lit the night with the slogan “Woman. Life. Freedom,” which embodies the protest movement spilling beyond Iran.
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World
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Region
1/16/2023 9:45:32 PM
Thousands of members of the Iranian diaspora from all over Europe on Monday demonstrated in the EU parliament host city of Strasbourg to urge the bloc to list Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terror group.
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Sports
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World
1/16/2023 7:12:51 PM
Could there actually be a title race in France this season? That is the question being asked after Paris Saint-Germain slumped to a second defeat of 2023 on Sunday to give hope to their rivals at the halfway stage of the campaign.
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Sports
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World
1/14/2023 5:37:13 PM
Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema says he has put his World Cup disappointment behind him and is focused on the future, starting with Sunday's Spanish Super Cup final.
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World
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Africa
1/12/2023 9:22:55 PM
The foreign ministers of France and Germany used a visit to Ethiopia on Thursday to call for accountability for widespread abuses committed during the Tigray conflict as a condition for the European Union to normalize relations with the country.
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World
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Region
1/12/2023 2:35:49 PM
President Emmanuel Macron has said he will not "ask forgiveness" from Algeria for French colonization but hopes to continue working towards reconciliation with his counterpart Abdelmajid Tebboune.
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World
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Africa
1/12/2023 11:15:15 AM
The French and German foreign ministers arrived in Addis Ababa on Thursday on a mission to support a peace agreement signed last year to end two years of a brutal war.
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World
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International
1/11/2023 7:00:16 PM
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will visit France on March 10 for the first British-French summit in more than four years, the French presidency and Downing Street said Wednesday.
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World
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International
1/11/2023 11:35:08 AM
An attacker wounded six people in an unprovoked blade attack in Paris' busy Gare du Nord train station Wednesday morning before being shot and wounded by police, France's interior minister said, praising the swift intervention of police for helping prevent any fatalities.
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World
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International
1/10/2023 10:03:04 PM
French trade unions called for strikes and protests Tuesday after President Emmanuel Macron's government announced plans to raise the retirement age, setting the stage for a bitter fight and weeks of disruption.
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Sports
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World
1/10/2023 9:48:13 PM
A sports agent has accused the president of the French soccer federation of improper conduct over several years, saying he only was interested in her sexually.
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World
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Region
1/10/2023 3:09:49 PM
Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement on Tuesday condemned cartoons of Iran's supreme leader published last week by the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, calling on Paris to punish the satirical magazine.
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World
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International
1/9/2023 10:37:40 PM
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida started a weeklong trip to Europe and North America in Paris where he held talks Monday with French President Emmanuel Macron on key issues including North Korea and the war in Ukraine.
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Sports
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World
1/9/2023 10:31:11 PM
World Cup winner Hugo Lloris retired from playing for France on Monday after a record 145 appearances.
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World
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War in Ukraine
1/9/2023 2:24:10 PM
The Kremlin on Monday said moves by France and other Western countries to supply Ukraine with weapons, including light tanks, would only make life more difficult for Ukrainians.
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Sports
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World
1/9/2023 1:48:39 PM
French football boss Noel Le Graet on Monday apologised for what he dubbed his "clumsy remarks" about Zinedine Zidane's potential interest in coaching the France national team.
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Sports
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World
1/9/2023 10:24:26 AM
Kylian Mbappe stepped in to defend Zinedine Zidane following dismissive comments toward the France great from French soccer federation president Noel Le Graet on Sunday.
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World
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International
1/8/2023 8:28:20 PM
Some 1,000 people rallied in the French city of Lyon on Sunday in support of unprecedented anti-regime protests in Iran, AFP journalists saw.
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