France presented its 2027 budget bill on Thursday, seeking to enact unpopular belt-tightening measures that can lower its deficit and appease increasingly twitchy bond investors ahead of next year's presidential election.
France presented its 2027 budget bill on Thursday, seeking to enact unpopular belt-tightening measures. And local governments are bracing for painful cuts. The national government provides most of the financing for local and municipal budgets – and it's now seeking 5.4 billion euros in savings ther…
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women and more than 61,000 cases are diagnosed in France each year. At Paris's Curie Institute, researchers are trying to develop new ways to identify and treat different types of cancers.
A copilot stabbed a captain in an apparent attempt to crash a jetliner as it was flying 174 people to Israel on Wednesday. But passengers burst into the cockpit and wrestled with the attacker even as the plane descended sharply, witnesses and Israel’s government said.
French lawmakers are set to debate a bill against gender-based and sexual violence. It aims to strengthen the entire process – from reporting crimes and investigation to protection and compensation for victims.
French teenagers on Tuesday set fire to rubbish bins and threw projectiles at police who responded with batons and tear gas, as pupils kept up blockades and protests at hundreds of high schools, demanding better conditions.
French security forces on Wednesday detained over 600 people while dozens of police and gendarmes were wounded as protests that have seen blockades of high schools and violent clashes escalated, the interior minister said.
After football and fishing, France's third-favourite pastime is hunting. The ancestral activity is popular but also divisive, with passions running high between those who defend hunting traditions and a growing number of animal rights activists.
In an interview with FRANCE 24, UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said the US continues to be "a very significant partner", despite owing $3 billion to peacekeeping. With the UN forced to cut about 25 percent of its capacity, Lacroix defended missions that cost just 0.2 percent of global mil…
A Tennessee woman convicted of a murder three decades ago survived two lethal injection doses on Wednesday, marking the state's second failed execution this year. Christa Pike, 50, had been set to become the first woman to be executed in the southern US state in 200 years.
🇫🇷 🎒 🪧 High schoolers across #France continued to blockade their #schools on Thursday, trying to form a "blocus" at the entrances of their schools in #protest. French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said that 625 people, mostly students, had been detained during blockade attempts on Wednesday, n…
PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, October 1: A FlyDubai flight was diverted to Saudi Arabia after the pilot was stabbed by his co-pilot in what the Israeli media are calling a terror attack. The co-pilot was detained by off-duty pilots on board and passengers before making a safe landing in Saudi Arabia.
In Brazil, incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is seeking a fourth and final term in the presidential election on October 4. In 2022, he made the fight against hunger and poverty a key campaign promise.
The EU said Wednesday it was up to London to chart a way forward for Britain's relations with the bloc, after Prime Minister Andy Burnham put the idea of rejoining on the table. Burnham reopened the divisive Brexit debate Wednesday by saying his centre-left Labour government could go "all the way" a…
Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, survived Tennessee's effort to execute her by means of lethal injection late on Wednesday, prison officials said, foiling the state's first attempt to put a woman to death in two centuries.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the United States has slashed the number of its generals and admirals by 20 percent, in a move he said is aimed at "accountability." Hegseth suggested the cuts targeted officers who failed to get on board with his efforts to ensure the military…
The motive of the Omani copilot who stabbed his captain on a flight to Israel, causing the plane to plummet dangerously and forcing it to land in Saudi Arabia, remained unknown on Thursday as investigators across the region raced to learn more.
In the wake of the crash averted by passengers aboard a Flydubai flight to Israel on Wednesday, many questions have been raised about safety on the aircraft. How was the alert raised while the aircraft was rapidly losing altitude? How were passengers able to intervene in an area that is normally loc…
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is due on Thursday to present a belt-tightening government budget for 2027, with savings predicted to come from freezing wages in the public sector and all but the lowest pensions.
The pilot of the FlyDubai flight is suspected of having stabbed his copilot midflight in an apparent attempt to crash the plane. The incident has turned focus to similar incidents in the past, where deliberate crashes or near crashes have been instigated by on or off-duty crew.
Cristiano Ronaldo has left Portugal’s training camp after several days of tensions with head coach Jorge Jesus. Portuguese Football Federation president Pedro Proença travelled to Copenhagen to try to ease the situation, without success.
FlyDubai, the budget airline owned by Emirates Airlines, has temporarily suspended flights to and from Israel after one of its pilot stabbed his copilot midflight in what appears to have been an attempt to crash the Tel Aviv-bound passenger yet.
Christa Pike, who has been on death row for more than 30 years for torturing and murdering a classmate, was on Wednesday set to be executed, but the lethal injections meant to kill her failed.
El Salvador will hold presidential elections on February 28, 2027, the electoral tribunal said Wednesday, opening the way for President Nayib Bukele to seek a third term after constitutional changes removed presidential term limits.
