Why you should know what's going on in France

Incoming French president Emmanuel Macron was starting to build his centrist government today, with his former Socialist boss jockeying for position in a radically changed political landscape.

Ahead of first round of polls, 42% of French people said that they still haven't made up their minds

By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, Laurence Frost and Edward Taylor LONDON/PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - French carmakers PSA and Renault are turning their U.S. absence into an Iranian advantage by piling into a resurgent market still off-limits to foreign rivals ...

Karachi, April 21 (IANS) One reason why Muslims in the US are seen very negatively is that they dont assimilate in host societies, a French scholar said in comments published on Friday. Journalist and scholar Slimane Zeghidour was addressing students and ...

Austrians celebrated today the 300th anniversary of the birth of Maria Theresa, with plenty of concerts and Champagne to honour the only woman to have ruled the Habsburg empire. The empress's 40-year rule starting in 1740, marked by administrative and ...

Climate change brings about dramatic catastrophes. One of our problems is, of course, to be alert to the facts of history. The dinosaurs were killed by a meteor strike, or by their own avarciousness. After their extinction, or miniaturisation, life continued ...

The richest sense of irony I ever felt was evoked by a PTI report, dated 13 May, 1997 from Siliguri, that a bust of Charu Majumdar had been decapitated. It went on to report the bandh called by Naxalite leaders 'to protest against the cowardly act'.

Former chief justice of Delhi High Court A P Shah on 19 April questioned the "nationalism" that forced people to stand for the national anthem at a movie theatre and talked extensively about free speech, nationalism and sedition delivering the hour-long M N ...

In Turkey’s April 16 referendum , voters will decide whether to allow president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to consolidate his powers and extend his term. This article, originally published on March 19 2017, has renewed relevance at this critical juncture for ...