Terror attacks in France demand statesmanship, not demagoguery
What leaders say at moments like these matters. And all the more so now because too many leaders have recently been unable or unwilling to say the right things.
Latest terror attacks leave France embattled at home and abroad
A terror attack that killed three people in Nice on Thursday left France increasingly embattled at home and abroad, as the government called for toughening measures against Islamist extremism, amid rising tensions with Muslim nations. A knife-wielding assailant left two people dead in Nice’s towering ...
Three dead in knife attack in French church; terrorism suspected
The incident marks the third attack in two months in the country, and took place close to where a lorry was plowed into a Bastille Day crowd in 2016.
Wave of new COVID-19 cases crashes across U.S. and Europe as winter looms
The United States, Russia, France and many other countries are setting records for coronavirus infections as a tidal wave of cases washes over parts of the Northern Hemisphere, forcing some countries to impose new curbs. The gloom weighed on global financial markets on Monday as ...
Countries battle coronavirus surge as WHO warns of 'exponential' cases
Governments are struggling to balance new restrictions against the need to revive economies already battered by earlier draconian lockdowns.
'We are not afraid': France rallies after beheading of teacher
Tens of thousands of people rallied in Paris and cities across France on Sunday in solidarity with a teacher beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Demonstrators on the Place de la Republique held aloft posters declaring: "No to totalitarianism of thought" and ...
Last night out in France as 20 million as virus curfew imposed
Millions of French people enjoyed a last night of freedom on Friday before a COVID-19 curfew in Paris and other large cities came into force at midnight, for a least a month, prompted by an alarming surge in new cases. The curfew aims to keep ...
Grisly beheading of teacher in terrorist attack rattles France
For the second time in three weeks, terror struck France, this time with the gruesome beheading of a history teacher in a street in a Paris suburb. The suspected attacker was shot and killed by police. French President Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called an ...
Fastest-ever growth in global virus cases as U.S. tops 8 million
Coronavirus cases in the United States topped 8 million Friday as the world saw the highest-ever number reported in a single day, while European countries tightened measures to control the pandemic's spread. The running U.S. case tally from Johns Hopkins University is the highest in ...
The motive for the attack, the third on the police station in two years, was not immediately clear.
French billionaires seize pandemic opportunities
France is the land of what writer Pascal Bruckner calls "Bolshevism-lite,” where wealth is publicly hated but privately hoarded.
As virus surges in Europe, resistance to new restrictions also grows
Still reeling from the toll of nationwide lockdowns, government officials are finding that the public might not be so compliant the second time around.
