PARIS—Parliament adopted a pension bill Monday raising the retirement age in France from 62 to 64, after lawmakers in the lower chamber rejected two no-confidence votes against the government. But the bill pushed through by President Emmanuel Macron without lawmakers’ approval still faces a review by the Constitutional Council before it can be signed into […]
PARIS—The French Senate on Saturday night adopted President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension reform plan in the wake of a seventh day of demonstrations that were not as large as authorities had expected. One hundred and ninety-five members of the upper house of the French Parliament voted for the text, whose key measure is raising the […]
PARIS—A French nun who was believed to be the world’s oldest person but had been reportedly growing weary of the burdens of age has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday. Lucile Randon, known as Sister André, was born in the town of Ales, southern France, […]
VAULX-EN-VELIN, France—Ten people including five children aged three to 15 were killed in a fire on Friday that engulfed a residential building in an impoverished town near the southeastern French city of Lyon. Another four people were seriously injured in the blaze in Vaulx-en-Velin, which started around 3 a.m. on the ground floor before spreading […]
This film is only available in the United States because of territorial licensing. Driven by romantic illusion to join the French Foreign Legion, Simon (Tom Hardy) learns what it truly means to be a hero. Rebuffed in love and uncertain of life, a young Englishman goes through a physical and spiritual journey during Algeria’s battle […]
In some French cities, residents are taking the law into their own hands and forming self-defense groups to protect their neighborhoods. In Nantes, the actions of one of these so-called militias led to the arrest of an individual whom police treat as the main suspect in a murder case. NTD spoke to a think tank director, who said […]
