France

French police in Rouen shot dead an armed man who set fire to the city’s synagogue, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and local officials said on Friday. The incident occurred in central Rouen, 130 kilometers northwest of Paris, early on…
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Experts on urban heritage from Saudi Arabia are giving a series of lectures on the topic at the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization offices in Paris. Organized by the Saudi Heritage Commission, the program of four…
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Qatar will venture into France’s tech industry as a major investment body announced its intent to anchor a financial commitment in Ardian Semiconductor. This move marks the Qatar Investment Authority’s participation in a pioneering…
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Discussions continued on Saturday about a French proposal designed to ease tensions and halt clashes between the Israeli army and Hezbollah along Lebanon’s southern border. Lebanese officials received an amended version of the proposal…
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French barber Roger Amilhastre, 90, could have hung up his clippers decades ago but he said his passion for hair gives him a reason to get up in the morning. “I love this job, it’s in my bones,” he said, leaning on one of his cast-iron…
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday marks 80 years since Nazi forces raided a Jewish orphanage in the southeast of France and sent almost all its occupants to extermination camps. The event is among the first of a sequence of…
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A French schoolboy on Friday died from wounds sustained in a violent assault, as President Emmanuel Macron warned schools should be protected from “uninhibited violence” among some youths. The 15-year-old teenager was badly beaten…
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France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has slammed “unacceptable acts” against the Muslim community after a boar head was found near a mosque in the east of the country. A prosecutor said a probe into “incitement to racial hatred”…
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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has praised French lawmakers for approving a resolution condemning a deadly 1961 police crackdown on peaceful Algerian protesters as a “positive gesture.” Speaking on national television Saturday…
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Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Tuesday received a phone call from his French counterpart, Stephane Sejourne, the Kingdom’s ministry announced. During the call, they discussed regional and international…
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