PARIS: French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man leaving a synagogue in Paris, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said late on Saturday. Darmanin said the alleged attack on a man in his early 60s was “a new antisemitic attack that occurred in Paris” Friday evening. “Everything isContinue Reading
Gabriel Attal has been announced as France’s new prime minister, the youngest and first openly gay person to hold the position in the country’s history. The handsome 34-year-old, who is in a long-term relationship with Renew Europe’s current leader Stéphane Séjourné, instantly sparked a wave of appreciative comments online. “OohContinue Reading
A German tourist has been killed and a British tourist injured by an alleged “hammer-wielding attacker” near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Another person was also reportedly injured. People have been urged to avoid the area after a man from the UK was believed to have been attacked from behindContinue Reading
Authorities are urging Australian tourists jetting off to France to exercise a “high degree of caution” due to “the threat of terrorism”, after travel advice levels were upgraded to level two. Several popular tourist destinations within France have become battlegrounds for police and protesters as ongoing riots consume the city.Continue Reading
PARIS: A blast ripped through a street near Paris‘ historic Latin Quarter on Wednesday and rescuers were searching for two missing people feared buried under the rubble of a building that partially collapsed in the explosion.The explosion tore through Rue Saint-Jacques, which runs from the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral toContinue Reading
Four children and two adults have been injured in a mass stabbing in the French city of Annecy, after a knife-wielding man stormed a playground. Security sources told AFP, a man armed with a knife ambushed a group of children aged about three years old on Thursday morning at aboutContinue Reading
PARIS: An attacker with a knife injured children and others in a town in the Alps on Thursday before he was quickly arrested, France’s interior minister said.Gerald Darmanin said the attack took place in a square in the town of Annecy. In a short tweet, he said police have detainedContinue Reading
PARIS: French authorities plan to deploy 11,000 police, including 4,000 in Paris, on Tuesday, when unions have called a nationwide day of protests against President Emmanuel Macron‘s law to raise the retirement age, the interior ministry said on Sunday.In a tweet, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the extra policingContinue Reading
One of France’s most senior politicians is in hot water after she posed for the front cover of Playboy magazine. Social economy minister Marlene Schiappa, 40, wore a revealing dress for the French edition of Playboy. The country’s second highest ranking politician Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said the photo shootContinue Reading
The King and Queen Consort have postponed their state visit to France following violent protests in the country. The royal couple were due to travel on Sunday but the trip will be rescheduled as soon as possible, the French president’s office said. The decision was made after a phone callContinue Reading