Professor Hassan Diab of Ottawa, Canada, has been convicted and sentenced in absentia for a 1980 bombing at a Paris synagogue, which killed four people and wounded 46. Diab perpetrated France’s first antisemitic terror attack since World War II, and eluded investigators
Four million applications were received for an online lottery where winners get to buy tickets for next year’s Paris Olympics, the local organizing committee said Friday. They hope to sell 1.3 million tickets for the 2024 Games as a result of the
A free climber known as the “French Spiderman” scaled a 38-storey skyscraper in Paris on Wednesday to demonstrate his support for protesters angry about a pension law that will delay the age at which people can retire in France. Alain Robert, 60,
A restaurant loved by Emmanuel Macron is in flames after it was targeted by angry protestors against the French President’s pensions reforms. Dramatic images La Rotonde burning as plumes of black smoke billow across the skies in the French capital of Paris.
Up to 800,000 people are thought to be out protesting in France as discussions between Macron’s government and French unions over pension reform are in a deadlock.
French railway workers invaded US financial company BlackRock in Paris on Thursday. Violent protests escalated over pension plans that have cornered and weakened French President Emmanuel Macron. France’s highest body on constitutional affairs will be considering the higher retirement age. The Constitutional
French prosecutors said the offices of five Paris banks were raided Tuesday as part of widening tax fraud investigation spanning four continents. The raid targeted some of France’s biggest banks, including Société Générale and BNP Paribas and the Paris offices of HSBC
French President Emmanuel Macron continues to see massive resistance toward his pension reforms, which pushed back the age of retirement from 62 to 64, with some 800,000 people gathering to protest in Paris alone, according to local reports Thursday. Demonstrators clashed with
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s Paris mansion is to be turned into an attraction and open to the public, it was announced days before King Charles and Queen Camilla are to undertake their first official visit to France since his accession
Garbage. Heaps, mounds and piles of it are growing daily — and in some places standing higher than a human being. A strike by Paris garbage collectors, which begins its 16th day on Tuesday, is taking a toll on the renowned aesthetics