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Trade unions and anti-racism groups have criticized an initiative by the French interior ministry to check on the number of Muslim children who skipped school last month to celebrate Eid Al-Fitr. The festival, which concludes the holy…

French former president Nicolas Sarkozy lost his appeal against a 2021 conviction for corruption and influence peddling at the Paris Court of Appeals on Wednesday. The court upheld a three-year prison sentence. It said two of those years…

France’s President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that his country had “opened the door” to training Ukrainian fighter pilots, even if he excluded sending any war planes to Kyiv. Macron spoke a day after Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky…

France charges 3 top advisors to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity, in connection to the deaths of two French Syrian men. The trial, the first in France related to the…

Twitter has confirmed that sections of its source code, which supports the social media platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk, have been made public on GitHub, a Microsoft-owned code-sharing service utilized by software…

Paris has witnessed a second day of violent unrest after Friday's deadly attack on the city's Kurdish community. Protesters who gathered on Saturday overturned cars, setting some on fire, and hurled objects at police. Officers responded…

It started several weeks ago at refineries. Then it spread to nuclear plants. And finally, on Tuesday, railway and postal workers, nurses, some teachers and even high school students across France, at least for the day, joined a snowballing…