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April 5, 2021 at 11:58 pm

EU approves $4.7 billion in state aid to carrier Air France

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has approved $4.7 billion in state aid for national carrier Air France as it struggles through the economic impact...

Business

April 5, 2021 at 11:20 pm

France to open archive for period covering Rwandan genocide VIEW

PARIS (AP) — France’s role before and during the 1994 Rwandan genocide was a “monumental failure” that the country must acknowledge, the lead author of...

March 31, 2021 at 1:48 am

France to close schools, ban domestic travel as virus surges VIEW

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a three-week nationwide school closure and a month-long domestic travel ban in an effort to fight the rapid spread...

Medical workers tend to a patient affected with the COVID-19 in the Amiens Picardie hospital, Tuesday, March 30, 2021 in Amiens, 160 km (100 miles) north of Paris. The number of patients in intensive care in France on Monday surpassed the worst point of the country’s last coronavirus surge in the autumn of 2020, another indicator of how a renewed crush of infections is bearing down on French hospitals. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) AMI101 AMI101

March 30, 2021 at 9:42 am

French virus surge raises harrowing specter of ICU overloads VIEW

French doctors are bracing for the possibility of rampaging coronavirus infections nationwide. And projections by Paris hospitals suggest intensive care units there may soon have...

March 27, 2021 at 3:11 am

Calls for change for women’s rights in French sports

PARIS (AP) — French society is at a “turning point” for women’s rights within the male-dominated sports world, the country’s sports minister said this week...

Sports

March 22, 2021 at 12:28 pm

France: Female sports journalists cite sexism, harassment

PARIS (AP) — More than 150 female sports journalists in France denounced sexism, harassment and discrimination they said they routinely face from colleagues and people...

Sports

March 19, 2021 at 5:02 am

Medical workers conflicted by France’s partial lockdown VIEW

PARIS (AP) — When nurse Anaelle Aeschliman started her 12-hour night shift caring for unconscious patients with COVID-19, the French prime minister was announcing new...

March 17, 2021 at 1:37 am

France’s Sarkozy faces new trial over 2012 campaign finance VIEW

PARIS (AP) — The trial of French former President Nicolas Sarkozy on charges that his unsuccessful reelection bid in 2012 was illegally financed has been...

Business

March 10, 2021 at 10:35 am

Kerry wants world’s biggest polluters to pledge real change VIEW

PARIS (AP) — U.S. special envoy for climate John Kerry on Wednesday called on the world’s biggest polluters to make “key decisions” in the coming...

March 1, 2021 at 12:59 am

France’s Sarkozy convicted of corruption, sentenced to jail VIEW

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court found French former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling on Monday and sentenced him to a...