
Suicide at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, ...

PSG City Hall celebrations scrapped after violence
A celebration of Paris Saint-Germain's first league title since 1994 was canceled Tuesday, a day after rioting during festivities in the French ...
4 accused of anti-gay attack in France
Four people have been detained on suspicion of carrying out an attack at a Lille gay bar, the Interior Ministry said Thursday, amid nationwide ...

Gay attack victim in France becomes cause celebre
The shocking photo of a homophobic attack victim in Paris that went viral on social media this week and caused the French interior minister to weigh ...

Muslims worry about broader France headscarf ban
Because of her choice to wear a headscarf, Samia Kaddour, a Muslim, has all but abandoned trying to land a government job in France. Soon, some ...

France considers amnesty for ransacking strikers
With its long vacations, short hours and myriad workers' rights, France has a reputation for being a hard place to do business. Now add this to the ...
Tunisia's premier to field new govt or resign
Tunisia's prime minister will continue to oppose his own political party and seek to form a government of technocrats by Saturday to solve the ...

Tunisian PM says new Cabinet needed during crisis
Tunisia's Islamist prime minister said Saturday that he will resign if his proposal to appoint a nonpolitical Cabinet by mid-week is rejected.

French try to root out would-be jihadists at home
France, waging war against Islamist extremists in Mali, is on the hunt for would-be fighters at home, fearful that they will join militants in the ...
France: 4 detained suspected of extremist links
French authorities detained four people Tuesday in a counterterrorism operation targeting those suspected of trying to join Islamist extremists abroad

France girds for new threats amid Mali operation
France's military campaign to stop advancing Islamist insurgents in Mali has been met with a volley of threats from the extremists, feeding fears that ...

French president bares tough side in Africa fights
Bombing militants in Mali may be the most popular thing Francois Hollande has done as France's president. The bespectacled and self-described "normal" ...

Beaches, bombs and gangsters _ Corsica's dilemma
The bombs exploded across hundreds of miles of Corsican coastline, gutting two dozen villas nearly simultaneously on some of Europe's most beautiful ...

3 Kurds killed in Paris; political motive claimed
Three Kurdish activists, including reportedly one of the founding members of a militant separatist group, were shot dead in what authorities called ...
3 Kurdish women shot dead at Paris office
Police say three Kurdish women have been shot dead at a pro-Kurdish center in Paris in what the French interior minister is calling an execution.
France counts 1,193 cars torched on New Year's Eve
Hundreds of empty, parked cars go up in flames in France each New Year's Eve, set afire by young revelers, a much lamented tradition that remained ...

Notre Dame Cathedral kicks off 850th birthday
Dignitaries, tourists and Parisians gathered in the thousands Wednesday for a ceremony and Mass marking the beginning of year-long commemoration of ...
French official: 'Kind of racism' in Corsica bombs
France's interior minister said Sunday that there was a "kind of racism" behind the bombings of dozens of vacation homes on the French island of ...
French island of Corsica hit by attacks
A man was shot dead and several houses were bombed on the French island of Corsica, a vacation destination that has seen a wave of gang killings this ...