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French authorities arrest Telegram CEO Pavel Durov at a Paris airport, French media report

YoopyaAug 25, 2024August 25, 20240

NICE, France (AP) — The founder and CEO of the messaging service Telegram was detained at a Paris airport, French media reported Sunday. Pavel Durov,

Simone Biles shakes off leg injury to dominate during Olympic gymnastics qualifying

YoopyaJul 28, 2024July 28, 20240

PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles didn’t let some leg discomfort slow her down. The American gymnastics superstar posted an all-around total of 59.566 during Olympic qualifying on Sunday inside

French far right ahead in 1st round of snap elections. Here’s how runoff works and what comes next

YoopyaJul 1, 2024July 1, 20240

PARIS (AP) — French voters face a decisive choice on July 7 in the runoff of snap parliamentary elections that could see the country’s first far-right government

France’s Le Pen expects clear far-right win and power over Macron

YoopyaJun 27, 2024June 27, 20240

PARIS, June 27 (Reuters) – French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is confident her party will win an absolute majority in parliament, form a government

Nationwide protests in France after Macron doubles down on pension bill

YoopyaMar 23, 2023March 23, 20230

French workers angry with a rise in the pension age blocked access to a terminal at Paris’ Roissy-Charles De Gaulle airport on Thursday as part

France’s Benzema drops appeal over sex tape conviction

YoopyaJun 5, 2022April 10, 20230

France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema has dropped his appeal against a conviction for complicity in blackmail in a sex-tape case that rocked French

Facebook removes French, Russian accounts active in Africa

YoopyaDec 18, 2020June 14, 20230

Individuals linked to Russia and the French military used fake Facebook and Instagram accounts to wage a covert disinformation campaign in the Central African Republic

Trump right and wrong on French wine tariffs

YoopyaNov 14, 2018June 3, 20230

U.S. President Donald Trump is partly right but far from completely correct when he says that France’s big tariffs make it hard for American vintners

Nicolas Sarkozy in police custody over campaign funding

YoopyaMar 20, 2018June 4, 20230

Ex-French president faces claims his 2007 election bid benefited from illicit Libyan funds. The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been taken into police custody

France IDs top Paris attacks figure, seeks unity to bomb IS

YoopyaNov 17, 2015July 1, 20230

PARIS (AP) — France identified a 27-year-old Belgian who once boasted about killing infidels and fought for the Islamic State group in Syria as the