People Smugglers Using Children as Human Shields Against French Police
Violence by smugglers and illegal migrants is escalating along France’s coastline, with children even being used as “human shields” during clashes with police, a British Border Force official has claimed. Deputy Commander Carol Heginbottom of the British Border Force Small Craft Operations Command said the situation was starting to panic over a bill passed last […]
Top French Diplomat Pushes for Deescalation on Lebanon-Israel Border
BEIRUT (AP) – French Foreign Minister Stephane Séjournet arrived in Lebanon on Sunday as part of a diplomatic attempt to mediate the escalating conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border. Sejourne was scheduled to meet with UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, the speaker of the Lebanese parliament, military commanders, the foreign minister and the interim prime minister. […]
NYC dog lovers ‘happy’ French bookstore relocating after vicious canine attacks
Upper East Side dog lovers are happy to say goodbye to a French bookstore that is moving downtown. It comes less than a year after a store owner’s dog attacked several small dogs, including a toy poodle that died from horrific scratches. La Library des Enfants is moving from its now-closed East 92nd Street store […]
French Navy ‘Working For the Traffickers’ in English Channel
France failed to stop the French navy from escorting an overcrowded dinghy to Britain and a small boat into British waters after five people fell overboard and drowned on Tuesday. , is accused of aiding and abetting a smuggling organization operating off the coast. A day after Britain finally passed legislation to send illegal boat […]
French Police Clear Migrant Camps out of Paris
PARIS (AP) – French police on Tuesday evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris, steps from the Seine River. It’s the latest move in what aid groups are calling a “social cleansing” campaign ahead of the Summer Olympics. Before dawn on an unusually cold April morning, about 30 teenagers and young adults from West […]
Rafael Nadal reveals fear for French Open hopes amid ongoing ‘limitations’ | Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal says he won’t return to Roland Garros for the finals unless his health improves significantly in the coming weeks, but he will do everything he can to be ready for next month’s Paris tournament. Told. “I don’t know what will happen in the next three weeks,” Nadal said in Spanish. “I’m fighting with […]
Burkina Faso’s military government expels 3 French diplomats from country
The military junta that rules Burkina Faso has expelled three French diplomats on suspicion of subversive activities, according to a government document posted on social media on Thursday. The junta has appointed three diplomats, two of them political advisers, and declared them persona non grata in Burkina Faso, according to a document signed by the […]
French bill would legalize medically assisted suicide for terminally ill patients
The French government introduced a bill on Wednesday that would allow adults with terminal cancer and other incurable illnesses to take lethal drugs, amid growing public demand for legal options for assisted dying. Many French people have traveled to neighboring countries where medically assisted suicide or euthanasia is legal. French President Emmanuel Macron has long […]
Cows can keep mooing at night, French parliament rules | France
Anyone considering moving to the French countryside who objects to being woken up by crowing roosters, mooing cows, the sound of tractors and the smell of manure will now be sent packing by the courts. become. France’s parliament has passed a law to put an end to hundreds of noise control court cases each year […]
‘Foiled’ Easter Terror Attack Didn’t Actually Exist, Clarifies French Govt
The French government quickly retracted claims that its security forces thwarted a terrorist attack on places of worship over the Easter weekend, saying no such plot actually existed. Prisca Thévenot, the French government’s deputy minister and spokesperson for Democratic Renewal who was newly promoted in President Emmanuel Macron’s January reshuffle, insisted that security services had […]