Demonstrators hold placards during a protest to support the Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traore and to demand the departure of France's ambassador and military forces, in Ouagadougou, on Jan 20, 2023. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) OUAGADOUGOU – Burkina Faso has decided to end a military accord that allowed French troops to fight insurgents […]
Passengers crowd into a metro operated by the Paris transport network RATP at a subway station in Paris on the eve of a nationwide day of strike and protests in key sectors like energy, public transport, air travel and schools against the pension reform in France, Jan 18, 2023. (GONZALO FUENTES / REUTERS) PARIS – […]
People thought to be migrants who undertook the crossing from France in small boats and were picked up in the Channel, arrive to be disembarked from a small transfer boat which ferried them from a larger British border force vessel, in Dover, southeast England, June 17, 2022. (MATT DUNHAM / FILE / AP) LONDON – […]
French Minister for the Economy and Finances Bruno Le Maire addresses Members of Parliament during a session of questions to the government at The National Assembly in Paris on July 19, 2022. (CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP) PARIS- France may try to negotiate some exemptions from the duties and limits imposed by the US anti-inflation act […]
A photo shows sealed on the door of an abandoned house in the village of Birac-sur-Trec, southwestern France, on Nov 21, 2022, where a 14-year-old girl was found dead after being kidnapped outside her school in the city of Tonneins. (MEHDI FEDOUACH / AFP) PARIS – France was shocked by the rape and murder of […]
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi attends a debate at the Senate ahead of a confidence vote for the government, in Rome, Oct 26, 2022. (ANDREW MEDICHINI / AP) ROME – Italy said on Wednesday it regretted tensions with Paris over migrants, which soared last week after a charity ship it turned away docked in southern […]
Migrants receive 24-hours survival kits on the deck of the Ocean Viking rescue ship, in the Mediterranean Sea, near the coast of Sicily, southern Italy, Nov 6, 2022. (VINCENZO CIRCOSTA / AP) PARIS – The Ocean Viking migrant rescue ship should dock in Italian waters as per international maritime laws and Rome's refusal to let […]
This picture taken on Feb 22, 2017 in Bourriot-Bergonce, western France, shows ducks confined at a farm located some 10 kilometers away from the flu-hit southwestern area. (GEORGES GOBET / AFP) PARIS – The highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a duck farm in France's southwestern department of Gironde, French daily newspaper Le […]
MUMBAI, INDIA, Sep 28, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The Indian aviation and aeronautics sector has emerged from a challenging pandemic period and is flying high once again. The number of travellers is expected to double to 400 million in the coming years and the market size is anticipated to grow to US$ […]
French President Emmanuel Macron poses aboard a boat on his way to visit the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, off the coast of the Guerande peninsula in western France on Sept 22, 2022. (STEPHANE MAHE / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed in an interview with BFM TV that France could […]
Le Castellet, France, Sep 19, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – F.C.C. TSR Honda France, running second in the 2022 FIM* Endurance World Championship (EWC), made a comeback to win this year’s championship in the final round, the Bol d’Or 2022, held at Circuit Paul Ricard on September 17 – 18. The team has […]
This photo shows the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Feb 7, 2019. (FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP) PARIS – The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday ruled that France must re-examine repatriation requests from two French women who traveled to Syria with their partners to join Islamic State, and the […]
French President Emmanuel Macron (right) holds talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the energy crisis via video link, at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on Sept 5, 2022. (LUDOVIC MARIN / POOL / AFP) PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that France and Germany will help each other through the […]
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a meeting with members of the French community at the French ambassador to Algeria's residence, in Algiers, on August 26, 2022, during an official visit. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP) ALGIERS – Britain and its people will always be allies of France, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, […]
French President Emmanuel Macron (left) attends a banquet hosted by Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune (right) at the presidential palace in Algiers on Aug 25, 2022. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP) ALGIERS – French President Emmanuel Macron indicated France and Algeria should move beyond their "painful" shared history and look to the future on Thursday at the […]
A firefighter sprays water at a burnt forest in Hostens, southwest France, July 21, 2022. (BOB EDME / AP) PARIS – Wildfires raged in southwestern France on Tuesday, destroying sixteen houses, burning 6,000 hectares and forcing the evacuation of almost 6,000 people in an area already hit last month by huge blazes. France, like the […]
An activist from the agricultural union ELB (Euskal Laborarien Batasuna-Union of Basque Farmers) holds a placard reading "Farmer common sense versus health nonsense" as ducks are going to be slaughtered due to the avian flu outbreak that began in late November at a farm in Lohitzun-Oyhercq, southwestern France on Jan 27, 2022. (GAIZKA IROZ / […]
In this Jan 9, 2018 photo, Xenia Fedorova, chief executive of RT France, attends an interview with the Associated Press in Paris. (FRANCOIS MORI / AP) BRUSSELS – The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Wednesday rejected a request by Russian state news network RT (Russia Today) France to lift a broadcasting ban it is […]