Defense lawyers say they will seek French asylum for Julian Assange
Julian Assange's European defense team said Thursday it will try to seek asylum in France for the Wikileaks founder, whose full hearings for extradition to the United States on spying charges start next week in London. French team member Eric Dupont-Moretti said Assange's case placed ...
In world first, cancer patient has baby using egg frozen for years
In a world first, a woman who had been rendered infertile by cancer treatment gave birth after one of her eggs was matured, frozen and then — five years later — thawed and fertilized, researchers in France reported. A study in the journal Annals of ...
France steps up investigation around Carlos Ghosn and Omani car dealership
French prosecutors are turning up the heat on disgraced car industry executive Carlos Ghosn, opening a judicial inquiry into alleged money laundering, fraud and misuse of company assets during his time at the helm of the Renault-Nissan alliance. The prosecutor's office in the Paris suburb ...
Macron unveils curbs on foreign imams and teachers amid wariness over 'separatism' risk
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would curb the practice of foreign countries sending imams and teachers to France to crack down on what he called the risk of "separatism. Macron has so far stayed away from issues related to France's Muslim community, ...
Global experts begin meetings in China over virus as cases ease but still top 68,000, says WHO
International experts have begun meeting with their counterparts in China over the new coronavirus epidemic, whose future path is "impossible" to predict, the World Health Organization said late Sunday. The number of new cases from China's coronavirus epidemic dropped for a third consecutive day, but ...
Paris police hold man who posted sex videos of mayor candidate
A controversial Russian performance artist who claimed responsibility for releasing sex videos that brought down a high-profile candidate for Paris mayor was detained by police Saturday, the prosecutor's office said. Pyotr Pavlensky, a refugee, was questioned at a police station on Paris' Left Bank about ...
'The West is winning': Misgivings in Europe as U.S. takes on China
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended on Saturday his nation's global role despite misgivings in Europe, vowing that Western values would prevail over Russian and Chinese desires for "empire." Seeking to reassure Europeans troubled by U.S. President Donald Trump's "America first" rhetoric, his ambivalence ...
China's Xi details hands-on approach in virus fight from early January
China released a two-week-old speech showing President Xi Jinping was leading the national effort to contain the coronavirus, in an apparent effort to quell public anger over the handling of the outbreak. Xi told China's most powerful leaders on Feb. 3 that he had "continuously ...
China reports slight fall in new COVID-19 cases as France confirms first death outside Asia
The number of new cases of a coronavirus in China fell slightly on Sunday, more than three weeks after the outbreak's epicenter was locked down, and a Chinese tourist died from the virus in France, the first fatality in Europe. The coronavirus, thought to have ...
Members of China's Uighur minority living in exile are sounding the alarm over the risk of the coronavirus spreading in camps inside the country, where NGOs say hundreds of thousands of people have been rounded up by Beijing. So far, official figures released by Chinese ...
A British businessman who became known as a "super-spreader" of the COVID-19 coronavirus said Tuesday he had fully recovered but remained in isolation in a central London hospital. Steve Walsh issued a statement via his company from Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital after catching the ...
