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The scenes in Paris resembled a regular lazy weekend morning — light traffic a sprinkling of people on the sidewalks. But this was a Friday.What would normally have been a bustling weekday marked the start of a nationwide four-week government imposed lockdown in France to fight a resurgent coronavirus threatening…

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Thousands of people rallied in Paris and other French cities on Sunday in a show of solidarity and defiance following the beheading of a teacher outside his school for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The killing of history teacher Samuel Paty in a Paris suburb Friday has sparked outrage…

A man armed with a knife on Friday beheaded a history teacher in front of his school in a suburb of Paris in what President Emmanuel Macron said was an "Islamist terrorist attack". The assailant was shot dead by police. Four people related to the assailant, including a minor, have been…

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The surge in people trying to reach the UK by crossing the Channel is “completely unacceptable”, the immigration minister has declared –  after talks with French officials in Paris. Chris Philp promised a “comprehensive plan” to cut off the route entirely, although quite how he would achieve that isn’t yet…

/ Europe Issued on: 14/08/2020 - 09:42 People wearing protective face masks visit the Montmartre neighbourhood, in Paris, on August 11, 2020. © Alain Jocard, AFP France declared its capital Paris and the port city of Marseille high-risk zones for the coronavirus on Friday as the government reported more than 2,500 new infections for…

Britain on Thursday said it will reimpose quarantine for travellers from France and the Netherlands, prompting Paris to quickly announce a "reciprocal measure". The UK government declared the change, which will likely spark a mass exodus among the estimated half a million British holidaymakers currently in France, after a rise…

PARIS, Aug 13 (Reuters) - France welcomes the normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Thursday. Israel’s decision to suspend its planned annexation of areas of the occupied West Bank under the historic agreement is a “positive step”,…

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