One man dead, others burned after neighborhood campfire explodes
FRENCH TOWNSHIP, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota neighborhood campfire meant to celebrate the holiday weeke...
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Money issues may sink proposed New Jersey branch of acclaimed Paris museum. Mayor blames politics
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey officials say financial concerns spurred state lawmakers to resc...
How to keep guns off Bourbon Street? Designate a police station as a school
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A police station in New Orleans’ French Quarter will be designated a vocational t...
Macron dissolves the French parliament and calls a snap election after defeat in EU vote
PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the lower house of France’s parliament in a surpris...
Landmark Paris trial of Syrian officials accused of torturing, killing a father and his son starts
PARIS (AP) — The landmark trial of three former Syrian intelligence officials began Tuesday at a Par...
Violence rages in New Caledonia as France rushes emergency reinforcements to its Pacific territory
PARIS (AP) — Violence raged across New Caledonia for the third consecutive day Thursday, hours after...
France enshrines abortion as a constitutional right as the world marks International Women’s Day
PARIS (AP) — France inscribed the guaranteed right to abortion in its constitution Friday, in a worl...
As France guarantees the right to abortion, other European countries look to expand access
PARIS (AP) — As France becomes the only country to explicitly guarantee the right to abortion in its...
Protesting farmers have France’s government in a bind
PARIS (AP) — Farmers have captured France’s attention by showering government offices with manure an...
France’s new prime minister vows to defend farmers and restore authority in schools
PARIS (AP) — France’s new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal vowed Tuesday to boost employment, restore au...
France’s president gets a ceremonial welcome as he starts a 2-day state visit to Sweden
STOCKHOLM (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron was welcomed Tuesday with pomp and ceremony at the...
France’s government prepares new measures to calm farmers’ protests, with barricades squeezing Paris
PARIS (AP) — With protesting farmers camped out at barricades around Paris, France’s government hope...
Protesting farmers tighten squeeze on France’s government with ‘siege’ of Olympic host city Paris
PARIS (AP) — Protesting farmers vowed to encircle Paris with tractor barricades and drive-slows on M...
French President Macron will hold a prime-time news conference in a bid to revitalize his presidency
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron will hold his first prime-time news conference on Tues...
France’s new government announced with only one major change at the foreign ministry
PARIS (AP) — The new government of French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal was announced Thursday with o...
France’s youngest prime minister holds 1st Cabinet meeting with ambition to get ‘quick results’
PARIS (AP) — France’s new prime minister, Gabriel Attal, held his first Cabinet meeting on Friday wi...
France’s youngest prime minister is a rising political star who follows in Macron’s footsteps
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to appoint a 34-year-old prime minister sur...
Gabriel Attal is France’s youngest-ever and first openly gay prime minister
PARIS (AP) — Gabriel Attal was named Tuesday as France’s youngest-ever prime minister, as President ...
France’s parliament considers a ban on single-use e-cigarettes
PARIS (AP) — The French parliament is considering a ban on single-use, disposable electronic cigaret...
6 teenagers go on trial for their alleged role in the 2020 beheading of a French teacher
PARIS (AP) — Six teenagers go on trial Monday in Paris for their alleged roles in the beheading of a...