France to honor health workers killed by Covid
PARIS: France will confer a special honor on health workers who die from Covid while fighting the pandemic, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday. He said a status called "died in…
PARIS: France will confer a special honor on health workers who die from Covid while fighting the pandemic, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday. He said a status called "died in…
PARIS: The coronavirus pandemic might not seem like the obvious time to build new movie theaters, but in cine-mad France, it will take more than a virus to dampen passions…
PARIS: French pharmaceuticals giant Sanofi, under fire for a delay in its Covid-19 vaccine, reported Friday much higher 2020 earnings and a bigger shareholder payout. It said net profit jumped…
ISMAILIA: Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country, began its mass coronavirus vaccination campaign Sunday, as several large nations struggled with their inoculation rollouts and France imposed new border controls.…
Lieuron, France: Some 2,500 party-goers attended an illegal New Year rave in northwestern France, violently clashing with police who failed to stop it and sparking concern the underground event could…
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday he plans to call a referendum on changing the constitution to include a commitment to fight against climate change and for the protection…
PARIS: France's CNIL data privacy watchdog said Thursday it had fined two Google units a total of 100 million euros and an Amazon subsidiary 35 million euros over advertising cookies.…
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday he hopes France will "get rid" of his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron as soon as possible, in the latest salvo in an…
PARIS: Police and demonstrators clashed in Paris on Saturday as tens of thousands took to the streets to protest against new security legislation, a controversy intensified by the beating and…
PARIS: France said Sunday it expects Turkey to de-escalate international tension with actions instead of words ahead of an EU decision on possible further sanctions against Ankara. Foreign Minister Jean-Yves…
PARIS: France on Friday prepared to reopen stores for the crucial Christmas shopping season, encouraged by new data suggesting that the country is past the worst of its second wave…
PARIS: France is unlikely to lift a partial coronavirus lockdown any time soon, a government spokesman said on Wednesday, even if some restrictions may be relaxed before Christmas. President Emmanuel…
PARIS: Fans will not be allowed to return to French sports stadiums this year, and when they do it will be with strict crowd limits depending on a venue's size,…
PARIS: France said Tuesday it was preparing to kick off a nationwide Covid vaccination campaign in January when it hopes virus shots will be approved and available. The government is…
CAIRO: French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was in Egypt Sunday where he sought to ease tensions with the Arab world, after the furore surrounding the republication of cartoons of…
RAWALPINDI: Like other parts of the country, protest rallies continued in the city against the publications of blasphemous cartoons and intolerable statement of the French President Emmanuel Macron. In this…
BEIJING: Beijing on Thursday banned foreign arrivals from France and a host of other countries, the latest in a growing number of entry bans as China closes itself off from…
HYDERABAD: Protest rallies were held here on Thursday to condemn the publication of blasphemous sketches of Holy prophet (PBUH) in France. Hundreds of workers of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) took out…
PARIS: Police on Wednesday (4th of Nov) took a 17-year-old man into custody for being in contact with the assailant who killed three people in a knife attack on a church…
PARIS: France is planning to transfer Covid-19 patients to Germany for treatment within days as some hospitals creak under the pressure from spiking virus cases, a hospitals federation said Tuesday.…
LONDON: England may have consigned some of the "trauma" of last year's World Cup final defeat to the history books by winning the 2020 Six Nations, but France could have…
PARIS: French police have made two new arrests in the probe into an attack on a church in the southern city of Nice that left three dead, as authorities seek…
PARIS: As France reels from a string of jihadist attacks, the country is caught up in a perilous fight -- protecting citizens against extremist propaganda whose potency seems to increase…
BEIRUT: The head of Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah on Friday urged France to back down from its defence of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. "Do not allow this mockery, this…