Fury in Niger at French travel warning after deadly attack
NIAMEY: "I am furious at France," Mahamane Rabiou Bachir said over the blaring sounds of traffic in Niger's capital, Niamey. He is far from alone in Niger, where anger is…
NIAMEY: "I am furious at France," Mahamane Rabiou Bachir said over the blaring sounds of traffic in Niger's capital, Niamey. He is far from alone in Niger, where anger is…
LONDON: Countries among the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic unveiled further measures on Friday to battle rising infections, as the number of cases worldwide passed 21 million. The US…
MONTPELIER: France's prime minister said Tuesday he wanted more masks worn in public places to prevent "a high risk of epidemic resumption" as health authorities warned coronavirus circulation was picking…
PARIS: France could "at any moment" lose control over the spread of the coronavirus, the government's COVID-19 scientific council warned Tuesday as official data showed the first rise in intensive…
BEIJING: China on Thursday expressed the hope that the Indian defence minister's remarks delivered after arrival of first batch of fighter jets in his country would be conducive to the…
PARIS: French police on Wednesday evacuated some 1,500 migrants from a camp north of Paris where crowded living conditions and a lack of water and sanitation exposed them to a…
PARIS: Governments are fast losing support for their handling of the coronavirus outbreak from a public that widely believes death and infection figures to be higher than statistics show, a…
Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport: France will require on-the-spot COVID-19 tests for people arriving from 16 countries where the pandemic is circulating widely, Prime Minister Jean Castex said Friday. France…
PARIS: People in France will risk a fine of 135 euros ($154) starting Monday for failure to comply with a new decree to wear a mask in public places indoors,…
NANTES: A fire ravaged parts of the Gothic Cathedral of Nantes in western France Saturday, sparking an arson investigation and leaving Catholic officials lamenting the loss of priceless historical artefacts.…
LA CIOTAT (FRANCE): When Europeans retreated into their homes to observe strict stay-at-home rules to contain the coronavirus, dolphins and whales on the Mediterranean coast basked and thrived in a hitherto…
PARIS: Emmanuel Macron asked Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from annexing Palestinian territory in the West Bank and elsewhere during a telephone call between the two leaders, the…
PARIS: President Emmanuel Macron on Monday replaced his embattled interior minister in a cabinet reshuffle days after changing his prime minister, as he seeks to stake out a "new path"…
SYDNEY: A decade ago Australia spent millions of taxpayer dollars on a disastrous quest to host the 2022 men's World Cup, but its football boss is quietly confident that crushing…
MONTREAL: Iran has asked France to decrypt the black boxes from downed Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, sources close to the investigation said Friday. The Iranian envoy to the International…
WASHINGTON: Russia called Tuesday on the United States to make a "positive" proposal as the powers open talks on a major disarmament treaty, warning that US insistence on including China…
PARIS: The dread of catching Coronavirus has augmented demand for the hand sanitizing gel all over the world. Different civilizations reacted differently. While in Pakistan a couple of religious parties…
PARIS: For the first time, the French Parliament members held a debate on the human rights issues in the Indian Occupied Kashmir. The discussion on the occupied valley was held…
LYON: A 19-year-old boy lost his life while nine others were wounded (three gravely) in a parking lot here today when two men armed with knife and skewer attacked them. …
WASHINGTON: Washington on Monday revoked visa-free entry rights to the United States for foreigners who have visited North Korea in the past eight years, potentially dealing a new blow to…
ROME: Candidates from China, France and Georgia are vying to head the UN's food agency, as the fight to eradicate world hunger takes a blow from global warming and wars.…
SYDNEY: Perth was Monday named as host city for the Fed Cup final between Australia and France later this year -- the first to be held Down Under for four…
DIJON: "Classic chemotherapy was awful... but with this treatment, I feel hope," says French pensioner Jacques Braud, who is undergoing treatment for stomach cancer with a new form of therapy…
PARIS: The execution of nine French jihadists on death row in Iraq would be a disgrace for France and leave an "indelible stain" on the mandate of President Emmanuel Macron,…