Pro-climate change activist VP Harris arrived in France in fossil-fuel powered Air Force Two then traveled around Paris in a 20-car motorcade.
(AFP) — President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday condemned as “inexcusable” a deadly crackdown by Paris police on a 1961 protest by Algerians whose scale was covered up for decades by French authorities.
Sir Graham Brady said he will resist the mission creep of coronavirus vaccine passports into a social credit score “at all costs”.
A delegation of French senators arrived in Taiwan, where they will hold talks with President Tsai Ing-wen, despite strong protests from China.
A French prosecutor confirmed that DNA evidence has linked a retired policeman to a series of rapes and murders in Paris from 1986 to 1994. The suspect François Vérove, 59, was found dead in a rented apartment in the south of France after taking his own life, with a suicide note apparently claiming to admit to the crimes. Like in the case of the recently-convicted London Metropolitan officer Wayne Couzens, Vérove is believed to have abused his position as a police officer to attack women and girls.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s personal vaccine passport QR code has been leaked, raising privacy concerns about the system.
The streets of France were flooded for the ninth straight week with protesters against President Emmanuel Macron’s vaccine passport scheme.
PARIS (AP) — The 2015 attacks in Paris killed 130 people and wounded hundreds of others. The trial of 20 men accused of having roles in the carnage began Wednesday.
Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving terrorist who took part in the 2015 Bataclan massacre in Paris, has declared himself a soldier of the Islamic State during the first day of his trial.
The lone survivor of the extremist cell that night is the key defendant of those being tried for the deadliest attack in since World War II.
Tory MP David Davis called for the “unnecessary emergency powers” given to the government under the Coronavirus Act to be removed.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of London, demanding that the government does not implement the proposed vaccine passport system.
For the sixth straight week, hundreds of thousands of people in France took to the streets against Emmanuel Macron’s health pass scheme.
At least 600 homeless people, most of them migrants, were evacuated from the Place des Vosges in central Paris after forming a makeshift tent camp in a protest.
The movement against vaccine passports in France grew to over 150 cities on Saturday, with with 150,000 protesting against health passes.
Visitors need a special COVID pass to ride up the Eiffel Tower or visit French museums or movie theaters from Wednesday.
Paris police on Thursday arrested American singer Lil Baby for allegedly “carrying drugs”, police sources said.
University of Connecticut Law Professor Mathilde Cohen raised the hackles of quite a few French people last week when she told a bewildered audience at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Nanterre that eating French food is an expression of “White Privilege.”
Police arrested two women in connection to an e-scooter accident that resulted in the fatal injury of a 31-year-old woman who was robbed as she lay in the street in Paris.
The main surviving defendant in the 2017 Champs-Élysées terror attack has been convicted for his role in the killing of a Paris police officer and sentenced to 10 years in prison — far below the 18 years requested by prosecutors.
“It’s more and more violent,” the police major said as he worked to reconstruct this week’s chain of events, from a clash in a pipe-smoking bar to a full-blown brawl between opposing groups from Pakistani and North African communities.
Four men aged 19 to 21 allegedly kidnapped and tortured a 17-year-old boy because he reported drug dealers in the Paris no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis to the police.
France eased several COVID-19 restrictions, with authorities saying it’s no longer always mandatory to wear masks outdoors.
Two men, both radical Muslims who sympathize with the Islamic State terrorist group, are on trial this week in a Paris court after being arrested for building explosives in 2017.
An LGBT police group has stated it will not be taking part in a Pride parade in Paris which is set to start in the no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis, over fears regarding officer safety.
Britain´s Treasury chief says he´s optimistic the world´s richest countries will agree to tax internet companies and other multinationals.
A pro-migrant group called the Réquisitions collective organised a large occupation of a Paris park involving around 300 migrants who demanded the French government give them housing.
A 69-year-old French woman was robbed and raped after two Algerian illegal migrants broke into her home.
Far-left Antifa militants attacked a group commemorating the martyrdom of Catholics by leftist extremists during the Paris commune in 1871.
French Senator Henri Leroy has denounced the “worrying increase” in underage migrant delinquency, a rise which he said appears to be “exponential”.
Police unions claim that up to 35,000 police officers and citizens demonstrated against anti-police violence in front of the lower house of the French parliament in Paris.
Police fired tear gas and used water cannons in clashes with violent pro-Palestinian protesters on Saturday in Paris.
(AFP) — Supporters of a Lebanese-Canadian academic who is the only known suspect in a 1980 Paris bombing urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday not to allow him to be extradited a second time, as France’s top court weighs in on the case.
The French Council of State, the country’s top administrative court, is considering giving Muslims an exemption from the Wuhan coronavirus curfew during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
For two nights in a row, residents of the northern Paris neighbourhood near the Stalingrad metro station have clashed with drug addicts and dealers, targeting them with mortar fireworks.
The French capital of Paris has seen vandalism and violent clashes as demonstrations marking May Day, also known as Labour Day or International Workers’ Day, have once again devolved into riots.
Former French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner was booed at a rally in support of murdered Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, whose alleged killer was not charged due to marijuana use.
Foreign-born residents in France had double the excess mortality of native French during the first waves of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic last year, according to the National Statistic Institute (INSEE).
A top French court has upheld a decision not to charge an “Allahu Akbar” yelling man accused of murdering a Jewish woman, claiming he was not criminally responsible.
French President Emmanuel Macron visited Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral on the second anniversary of its near-total loss to fire, calling for it to reopen for 2024, apparently whether it was ready or not.
