On March 17, a group of 50 individuals attacked a police station in a Paris suburb, injuring two officers with fireworks, projectiles, and Molotov cocktails. The incident, believed to be linked to the recent death of a young man after a police chase, has heightened the sense of insecurity in the area. Despite the swift […]
NEW YORK—French bulldogs. U.S. dog owners. C’est l’amour. Frenchies remained the United States’ most commonly registered purebred dogs last year, according to American Kennel Club rankings released Wednesday. The club calls the Frenchie the most popular breed, though other canine constituencies may beg to differ. Is it a coup to be celebrated? Au contraire, say […]
MONTREAL—A 13-year-old French tourist has died after he crashed into a tree during a dog sled ride northwest of Montreal, authorities said Tuesday. Quebec provincial police said they were called to a property just before noon on Monday in St-Michel-des-Saints, Quebec, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) from Montreal in the Lanaudière region. Sgt. Frédéric Deshaies […]
BOIS-COLOMBES, France—Charles Coste did not get to hear “La Marseillaise” when he stood on top of the podium at the 1948 Summer Games in London, but France’s oldest living Olympic medalist will get another moment in the spotlight when he carries the Paris 2024 torch. Mr. Coste, who turns 100 on Thursday, won a track […]
LONGVILLIERS, France—Long lines of tractors blocked highways near Paris and across France on Monday, as angry farmers sought to put pressure on the government to do more to help them face inflation, compete with cheap imports, and make a living. The protests follow similar action in other European countries, including Germany and Poland, ahead of […]
PARIS—France’s interior ministry on Sunday ordered a large deployment of security forces around Paris as farmers threatened to head toward the capital, hours after climate activists hurled soup at the glass protecting the “Mona Lisa” painting at the Louvre Museum. French farmers are putting pressure on the government to respond to their demands for better […]
Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, sent a letter to the FDA earlier this month expressing concerns about nucleic acid contaminants and billions of DNA fragments per dose in Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Mr. Ladapo contends these contaminants pose potential risks to human health. In response, the FDA labeled Mr. Ladapo’s claims […]
PARIS—Spreading demonstrations by French farmers against low wages and other grievances were hit by tragedy Tuesday when a woman was killed and her husband and daughter seriously injured in a traffic collision at a protest barricade. A car plowed into straw bales that demonstrators had placed across a road, hitting the three people before it […]
PARIS—French fashion house Balmain has lost dozens of pieces due to be unveiled at a Paris show later this month after a lorry carrying the clothing was hijacked, its creative director Olivier Rousteing said. Mr. Rousteing said in an Instagram post that thieves seized the vehicle carrying some 50 items from Balmain’s new collection between […]
PARIS—Apple pledged on Friday to update software on iPhone 12s in France to settle a dispute over radiation levels, but concerns in other European countries signaled it may have to take similar action elsewhere. France this week suspended sales of iPhone 12 handsets after tests which it said found breaches of radiation exposure limits. Apple […]
PARIS—A Paris prosecutor opened a preliminary judicial investigation on Friday for involuntary manslaughter aggravated by breach of safety rules, after a fire left 11 dead at a vacation home housing adults with disabilities in eastern France. Wednesday’s fire killed 10 adults with slight intellectual disabilities and one person accompanying them. The judicial investigation will seek […]
PARIS—Required safety standards weren’t met at a vacation home for adults with disabilities where a heavy fire left 11 dead in eastern France, a deputy prosecutor said Thursday. A day earlier, the fire killed 10 adults with slight intellectual disabilities and one person accompanying them. Nathalie Kielwasser, the deputy prosecutor of Colmar, said the first […]
PARIS—The famously fickle Paris crowd made themselves heard on the opening day of the French Open, booing when Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands after her first-round defeat by Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus on Sunday. Stefanos Tsitsipas, the runner-up in Paris in 2021, was later dragged into a dogfight by Czech Jiri Vesely before […]
PARIS—French international news agency Agence France-Presse says its Ukraine video coordinator was killed Tuesday during a rocket attack near the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Arman Soldin, 32, was with a team of AFP journalists traveling with Ukrainian soldiers when the group came under fire with Grad rockets, the agency said. The rest of the […]
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 […]
