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President Bola Tinubu, on Sunday, returned to Abuja after being away for nearly two weeks. The President had on June 20 departed Abuja for Paris, France, where he attended the summit for a New Global Financing Pact hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron. From Paris, he moved to London for…

Author of the article: Associated Press Anna and Nicolas Garriga Published Jul 03, 2023  •  Last updated 6 days ago  •  4 minute read Pedestrians walk on Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, on July 2, 2023, a day after protesters took to the street and clashed with police on an iconic street…

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By CARA ANNA and NICOLAS GARRIGA Published : , ,   NANTERRE, France (AP) — Crowds gathered at town halls across France Monday to show solidarity with local governments targeted in six nights of violence touched off by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old in suburban Paris. The unrest, which…

PARIS: The mayor of a suburb of Paris said on Sunday that protesters had rammed a burning car into his home and then set the vehicle on fire, injuring his wife and one of his children, as violent demonstrations across France over the police killing of a 17-year-old stretched into…

PARIS (AP) — Young rioters in France clashed with police into early Sunday and targeted a mayor’s home with a burning car, injuring members of his family, as the country saw a fifth night of unrest after the police killing of a teenager. However, overall violence appeared to lessen from…

PARIS, France (AFP) — French authorities deployed reinforcements to flashpoint cities and had made hundreds of arrests by early Sunday, on the fifth night of unrest sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old who was laid to rest the day before. A total of 486 people had been…

“This looks like an Intifada in the heart of France,” French-Israeli lawmaker Meyer Habib said of the ongoing riots over the death of a Paris teen...Read More

The teenager, of Algerian descent, was killed by a single shot during a traffic stop in the Paris working-class Paris of Nanterre on Tuesday morning. The police officer who fired said he had feared someone may be hit by the car, including him or his colleague, after Nahel ran a…

NANTERRE, France (AP) — Hushed and visibly anguished, hundreds of mourners from France’s Islamic community formed a solemn procession from a mosque to a hillside cemetery on Saturday to bury a 17-year-old whose killing by police has triggered days of rioting and looting across the nation. Underscoring the gravity of…