French bus driver left brain dead after being attacked for refusing maskless riders
A bus driver in France was declared brain dead Monday after being attacked for refusing to let aboard passengers without face masks in line with rules imposed to combat the coronavirus. A police source in Bayonne, near the ritzy Atlantic resort of Biarritz in southwestern ...
France gets new prime minister as Macron charts 'new course'
Jean Castex, who is leading France's recovery from the coronavirus lockdown, is taking over for Edouard Philippe.
Extradition delayed for Chilean suspected of killing Japanese woman
The extradition of a Chilean suspect to France over the alleged murder of a Japanese woman, who went missing while studying in France in December 2016, is expected to be postponed. French authorities have informed Chilean representatives that the extradition of Nicolas Zepeda Contreras, the ...
Suspect in Japanese woman's murder faces July extradition to France
Chilean authorities are likely to hand over to France in early July a man suspected of killing a female Japanese student in response to an extradition request from French prosecutors, a document from Chilean prosecutors and other sources showed Monday. Four French police officials are ...
Coronavirus cases top 9 million as WHO says pandemic 'accelerating'
The WHO chief said the greatest threat facing the world was not the virus itself but "the lack of global solidarity and global leadership."
More trouble at the top for Nissan, as COO Ashwani Gupta captures attention
Allies of the chief operating officer are pressing the board to promote him to co-CEO, so he can drive the turnaround plan he is said to have engineered.
From Paris to London to Atlanta, fresh protests against racism
Thousands marched in cities around the world for a second week of rallies Saturday to support the Black Lives Matter movement, but also to highlight racism and police brutality in their own countries. There were rallies in cities across Europe, with thousands demonstrating in several ...
Three French policemen will face trial on charges of falsifying evidence in a case brought against a British activist, prosecutors said Wednesday, a decision hailed by human rights organisations. France's CRS riot place had accused Tom Ciotkowski, a council worker from Stratford upon Avon, of ...
French forces kill leader of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb
French forces have killed the leader of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdel, in northern Mali, French officials said Friday. Droukdel was killed on Thursday near the Algerian border, where the group has bases it uses to carry out attacks and abductions of ...
Protests over George Floyd's death expose strained race relations worldwide
Images of a white police officer kneeling on the neck of African American George Floyd, who later died, have sparked protests from Amsterdam to Nairobi, but they also expose deeper grievances among demonstrators over strained race relations in their own countries. With violent clashes between ...
French league faces questions about early end as European neighbors move to resume play
It is the land of the world champions, but is it really a soccer country? That is the question some in France have been asking this week as the country's European neighbors work to bring the sport back after the coronavirus shutdown. Debate has raged ever ...
