Frontier police forces in northern France are complaining of the huge strain they are working under caused by migrants attempting to reach Britain. Numbers released earlier this week show they have detained 18,170 migrants in or around Calais already this year,
The former leader of France’s Front National (FN) political party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, announced yesterday that he is suing the party he founded over 40 years ago. The MEP is contesting his suspension from the FN, now led by his
Worrying figures published in France yesterday illustrate the full online extent of French-language Jihadist networks. With over 2,600 websites backing ISIS and a daily tally of around 40,000 French tweets in support, the campaign to enlist French recruits to the cause
A lead coffin housing the remarkably well-preserved body of a 17th century noble woman — still wearing her shoes and cap — has been unearthed in the northwestern French city of Rennes.
As thousands of illegal immigrants, mostly from Africa, continue to arrive to Italian shores, tensions are mounting over what to do with them once they arrive.
On June 1st, the Supreme Court “reversed and remanded” Samantha Elauf’s high profile lawsuit concerning her right to wear a hijab at work back to the Tenth Circuit’s appeals court for further proceedings. Elauf, represented by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, had been awarded $20,000 by a jury at the trial level; that award was vacated by the appeals court. Now, when the appeals court revisits the case, they may reinstate that jury award.
The city of Calais, France has been labeled a “war zone” for more than a year now, as violence between competing factions of African migrant smugglers threatens to engulf the city and its economy. As the EU demands France take in 9,000 more migrants, officials doubt the country could keep the peace in that scenario.
Top-seed Serena Williams managed to escape into the French Open quarterfinals while defending champion Maria Sharapova lost in straight sets to Lucie Safarova.
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Following a rocky year in their often-delicate relationship, France and Morocco have announced they will cooperate on counter-terrorist activities — especially in light of the ISIS threat, whose militants has been recruiting Muslims in both countries.
A court in Catania, Italy, has sentenced 23-year-old Haj Hammouda Radouan to life in prison for manning an illegal migrant ship that capsized in the Mediterranean, killing an estimated 200 people. It is the first such sentence in Italy’s history, a precedent arriving just as the nation prepares for the summer rise in African migrants attempting to reach European shores.
French Open 2014 Finalist Simona Halep, seeded third, lost to Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in straight sets in the second round.
American Sloane Stephens must know something about the Williams sisters because she always performs so well against them. She eliminated Venus Williams at the French Open, 7-6 (7), 6-1.
Unseeded German Annika Beck, ranked #83, defeated 14th seed Agnieszka Radwanska in the first round at the French Open, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.
A fan jumped onto Philippe Chatrier Court after Roger Federer defeated Alejandro Falla to take a selfie with the tennis great.
Stan Wawrinka blasted French Open organizers after an article on his personal life appeared on the tournament’s official website.
The French Open 2015 starts today. Can Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova defend their titles?
As part of a final nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 world powers (U.S., UK, Germany, France, Russia, China), Tehran has demanded at least twenty-four days notice before inspectors are allowed to review their nuclear enrichment sites, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has reportedly disclosed.
A Jewish teenager was beaten by a group of North African men outside of the Buttes Chaumont Park near Paris this weekend.
“When Cannes rolls out the red carpet May 13, it will also be on red alert,” quips the Hollywood Reporter. Security will be greatly heightened at the legendary film festival, not due to any specific threat, but because of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, and what the Reporter confusingly describes as “a subsequent series of several smaller attacks against religious targets.”
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP)– French leader Francois Hollande on Tuesday will make the second visit ever by a sitting president of France to its once prized possession of Haiti, where bountiful resources and brutal plantation slavery made it the European nation’s most profitable colony some 250 years ago.
The Surveillance State faces stiff criticism in the United States. Limiting domestic surveillance, or at least subjecting it to more extensive oversight, is likely to be a prominent feature of several 2016 presidential campaigns. But in France, Parliament just took domestic surveillance up a notch, granting internal intelligence services “their most intrusive domestic spying abilities ever, with almost no judicial oversight,” as The New York Times puts it.
On Tuesday, the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo will be celebrated in California, and despite the spate of drinking parties that will ensue, some want the holiday to return to a more sober celebration of Mexican independence from France.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the controversial former leader of France’s Front National, has been suspended from his party over accusations of racism and anti-semitism. Mr Le Pen, who sits as a Member of the European Parliament, has reacted furiously by disowning
