France
26 Feb
French police said officers killed a man holding a knife in each hand after he "threw himself" at them in the northeastern Paris suburbs on Wednesday. At around 7:00 am (0600 GMT), police approached "a man sitting at a bus stop with a knife in each hand" in the town of Dugny, Paris police told…
26 Feb
Two staff at France's main state research agency have admitted throwing improvised explosive devices at the Russian consulate in the city of Marseille, saying they acted because of the Russia-Ukraine war, prosecutors said Wednesday. Three plastic bottles were lobbed into the consulate gardens in the southern port city and two exploded on the third anniversary…
24 Feb
A newborn baby died in Paris Monday after his 18-year-old American mother threw him out a hotel window, umbilical cord still attached, French prosecutors and a police source said. She threw the infant from the second-floor window of a hotel in the 20th arrondissement in eastern Paris, the prosecutor's office said. "The newborn was given…
24 Feb
A former French surgeon was to go on trial Monday, charged with raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. In…
22 Feb
A French convict, on the run since being freed last May in an ambush that left two prison officers dead, has been arrested in Romania, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said Saturday. Mohamed Amra, accused of being a major drugs gangland figure, had vanished without a trace after an attack with military-grade assault weapons on a…
22 Feb
France is still trying to assemble a "blocking minority" within the European Union to prevent a trade deal with four South American countries from coming into force, President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday. The deal between Brussels and Mercosur bloc members Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay was announced as a "win-win" by EU Commission chief…
20 Feb
France returned on Thursday its sole military base in Ivory Coast to the west African nation's authorities, marking an end to decades of French presence at the site. The French and Ivorian defence ministers signed a document to confirm the return, shortly after the Ivorian flag was raised in the base's parade ground. Though the…
20 Feb
Britain and France are spearheading attempts to create a European "reassurance force" of fewer than 30,000 troops to protect Ukraine after any ceasefire deal with Russia, UK media reported Thursday. The idea comes as European powers fear that US President Donald Trump could end the three-year war on terms favourable to Moscow, without providing security…
20 Feb
France returned on Thursday its sole military base in Ivory Coast to the west African nation's authorities, marking an end to decades of French presence at the site. The French and Ivorian defence ministers signed a document to confirm the return, shortly after the Ivorian flag was raised in the base's parade ground. Though the…
19 Feb
France's right-dominated Senate has backed a bill to ban religious symbols including the Muslim headscarf in all sport competitions, professional and amateur, sparking accusations of discrimination from the left and rights advocates. The bill still needs a majority of votes from the lower-house National Assembly to become law, but the right-leaning government has thrown its…
10 Feb
An 11-year-old schoolgirl was found murdered in a wood south of Paris over the weekend, sparking shock and a massive search for clues that could lead to the killer. The girl was found stabbed to death in the Essonne region south of Paris in the night of Friday to Saturday, police said. She had been…
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