Tag: France

Francois Hollande bashed Trumps anti-immigration rhetoric, saying that Trumps slogans are barely different from the extreme Right in Europe and in France. (AP Photo)

French President Francois Hollande endorses Hillary Clinton

Ariel Cohen · June 30, 2016 4:12 pm

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen speaks during a press conference at the National Front party headquarters in Nanterre, outside Paris, on Friday. Le Pen says pro-independence movements in the European Parliament will meet soon to plan their next move after the British vote to leave the European Union. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

Is ‘Frexit’ next for Europe?

Sarah Bedford · June 24, 2016 10:21 am

Houellebecq’s Timeliness Strikes Again

Alice B. Lloyd · June 20, 2016 1:02 pm

Police raided the house around midnight and found the couple's child alive. The infant was rescued and removed from the house. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Islamic State attacker fatally stabs French cop and wife

Anna Giaritelli · June 14, 2016 3:40 am

Pope Francis last week in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican (AP Photo/Fabio Frustaci)

World leaders condemn Orlando shooting

Robert King · June 12, 2016 11:15 pm

"Somme," wrote a Prussian veteran afterwards. "The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word." (AP Photo)

The Battle of the Somme 100 years on

Dan Hannan · June 6, 2016 4:03 am

EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo has crashed

Anna Giaritelli, Daniel Chaitin · May 19, 2016 3:23 am

The president of the American Petroleum Institute thinks the French feeling is an "aberration." (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Energy and Environment

Oil industry brushes off concerns about France banning natural gas from U.S.

Kyle Feldscher · May 13, 2016 9:31 pm

$France has banned hydraulic fracturing while the United States' use of the drilling technique has resulted in an enormous bounty of cheap natural gas. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)$ Energy and Environment

France eyes ban on U.S. shale gas

John Siciliano · May 10, 2016 11:51 pm

(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Washington Secrets

U.S. pays United Nations MORE than it costs to run world group

Paul Bedard · May 10, 2016 3:16 pm

Life Imitating Art (Imitating Life)

Alice B. Lloyd · May 6, 2016 5:27 pm

Rep. Christopher Smith, R-N.J., a 17-term member with a long record on human rights, is eyeing legislation calling for sanctions on countries whose U.N. peacekeeping forces are involved in sex abuse of those they are protecting. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

Washington Secrets

U.N., French peacekeeping troops in huge rape scandal, U.S. eyes sanctions

Paul Bedard · April 20, 2016 2:27 pm