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January 22, 2020 at 6:54 am

Wife: China’s ex-Interpol boss jailed for reformist views

PARIS (AP) — In her first comments about her imprisoned husband's sentence in China, the wife of former Interpol president Meng Hongwei dismissed his bribery...

January 21, 2020 at 4:25 am

Changing tack, French strikers turn off power to sections of Paris

PARIS (AP) — Opening another front in their battle against the French government, protesting workers cut power to thousands of Parisians on Tuesday, plunging homes...

Business

January 20, 2020 at 2:49 am

Paris transit strike eases; commuters, tourists relieved VIEW

PARIS (AP) — Paris commuters who have battled through six weeks of misery-inducing transport strikes found their smiles again Monday as some subway workers ended...

Business

January 18, 2020 at 7:25 am

Splits in France’s strike movement trigger fears of violence VIEW

PARIS (AP) — A French government minister warned that seditious groups bent on violence were hijacking the protest movement against pension reform that has gripped...

Business

January 15, 2020 at 10:22 am

Grrrrr! Angry herders secure bear ban from France’s Macron

PARIS (AP) — The bears have cute names — Bubble, Feather, Snowflake and the like — and look so soft and huggable when caught on...

January 13, 2020 at 12:33 am

Former IAAF president’s corruption trial opens in Paris VIEW

PARIS (AP) — The corruption trial involving the former president of track and field's governing body was suspended Monday shortly after it began. Lamine Diack,...

Sports

January 11, 2020 at 11:03 pm

France’s #MeToo: Book on child-sex writer prompts outcry

PARIS (AP) — He was a middle-aged French author becoming known, even celebrated, for writing about sex with children. She was a fragile 14-year-old, too...

Entertainment

January 6, 2020 at 11:53 pm

No end in sight for hobbling French rail strikes after talks VIEW

PARIS (AP) — The French government and unions appeared still far apart after talks resumed Tuesday over fiercely contested pension reform proposals that have triggeredrecord-settingstrikes...

Business

January 3, 2020 at 7:06 am

Police shoot, kill man after stabbings in Paris park

PARIS (AP) — A man armed with a knife rampaged through a Paris park attacking passers-by seemingly at random Friday, killing one person and injuring...

Protesters burn a U.S. flag during a demonstration over the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 3, 2020. Iran has vowed “harsh retaliation” for the U.S. airstrike near Baghdad’s airport that killed Tehran’s top general and the architect of its interventions across the Middle East, as tensions soared in the wake of the targeted killing. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) VAH105 VAH105

January 3, 2020 at 2:21 am

‘A more dangerous world’: US killing triggers global alarm

PARIS (AP) — Global powers warned Friday that the American airstrike responsible for killing Iran’s top general made the world more dangerous and that escalation...

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