France
9 Jul 2023
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made his first official visit as Nigeria’s President to France where he was between June 20th 2023 and June 24, 2023. He attended the summit on New Global Financing Pact in Paris, capital city of France.
7 Jul 2023
France has repatriated all of the French women and children who want to return home from Kurdish-run jihadist prison camps in Syria and will not be organising any more flights, a diplomatic source said on Friday.
4 Jul 2023
A French court on Tuesday found France's national rail operator guilty of negligence after a departing train ran over a cat that had escaped from a traveller's bag, in an incident that outraged animal rights groups. The owners of Neko -- which means "cat" in Japanese -- accused rail staff of cruelty after they refused…
4 Jul 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron was on Tuesday to meet with hundreds of French officials to begin exploring the "deeper reasons" for the country's plunge into riots after the killing of a teenager at a traffic stop. The meeting with 220 mayors whose municipalities suffered damage over a week of violence, to be held at the…
1 Jul 2023
Violence and looting hit France in a fourth night of protests as police, who were deployed in force, made more than 1,300 arrests and the country braced for more clashes as the funeral began Saturday of the teenager who was killed by an officer during a traffic stop.
30 Jun 2023
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said Friday that the government was considering "all options" to restore order, including declaring a state of emergency, after a third night of rioting over a police officer's killing of a youth.
30 Jun 2023
French public-sector debt topped three trillion euros ($3.25 trillion) for the first time ever, statistics authority Insee said Friday as it presented data for the first three months of 2023.
22 Jun 2023
Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has filed a criminal complaint in France for "crimes against humanity" against President Macky Sall, his lawyer said, as well as requesting a probe by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
22 Jun 2023
A group of wealthy nations and multilateral development banks have promised to mobilise 2.5 billion euros to help Senegal reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, President Macky Sall said Thursday.
22 Jun 2023
One person was still missing on Thursday after a blast ripped through a building in central Paris, while six others were in critical condition receiving urgent treatment in hospital as rescuers sifted through wreckage.
21 Jun 2023
The black fedora worn by pop superstar Michael Jackson just before he dazzled the world with his moonwalk dance for the first time will be up for grabs in September during a Paris auction of music memorabilia.
20 Jun 2023
As he prepared the biggest fashion show of the year in Paris, musician-turned-designer Pharrell Williams told AFP on Tuesday he was conscious of the traumatic history behind black culture's recent ascent.
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