List of France articles
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TOPSHOT - Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump waves as he leaves the stage during the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on July 20, 2016. The cost of the convention for the Republican Party will run some $64 million. The number of visitors expected in Cleveland is 50,000, including 15,000 journalists and 2,472 delegates (there are also 2,302 alternate delegates.) / AFP / Robyn BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) ‘The World as We Know It Is Crumbling Before Our Eyes’
While Russia rejoices and right-wingers cheer, America’s allies are trying to come to grips with the implications of Donald Trump’s victory.
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femmes French Women Walked out of the Office Early to Protest the Pay Gap. What If American Women Did the Same?
What if American women copied their French and Icelandic counterparts and left the office early to prove a point about equal pay?
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PARIS, FRANCE - APRIL 15: French President and right-wing ruling party, Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) candidate for the French 2012 presidential election Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech during a campaign meeting at Place de la Concorde on April 15, 2012 in Paris, France. President Sarkozy and challenger Socialist Francois Hollande held giant campaign rallies a week before the first round of voting as polls showed Hollande widening his lead by another two points. (Photo by Franck Prevel/Getty Images) Nicolas Sarkozy’s Waterloo Is His War on Islam
The former president has staked his comeback on a mistaken belief that France is having an identity crisis.
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brussels In Brussels, an Extradition and Accusations of Abuse
The case of Mehdi Nemmouche shows the simultaneous struggles facing Western European governments.
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hollande Mon Dieu, François Hollande’s Approval Rating Is at 4 Percent
Ç’est mal. The French people are very displeased with their president.
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car-crop French Peacekeepers Pull Out as New Violence Erupts in the Central African Republic
France just ended its mission in the CAR, leaving the country with scandal-plagued U.N. peacekeepers.
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 26: Employees of the online review site Yelp watch as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at the new East Coast headquarters of the tech company on October 26, 2011 in New York City. The Bloomberg administration has been heralding and working to facilitate the tech sector in New York City in hopes of making New York City a rival to Silicon Valley for start-up companies. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) These 1-Star Yelp Reviews of Embassies Make Us Question the Future of Diplomacy
When travelers don't get their visas on time, they get angry. And then they write Yelp reviews.
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CALAIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 24: A migrant throws a wooden crate on to a bonfire at the Jungle migrant camp on October 24, 2016 in Calais, France. French authorities have begun to clear the estimated 7000 people from the Calais Jungle migrant and refugee camp ahead of its demolition. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images) France Is Clearing Out the ‘Jungle’ in Calais, But What Comes Next?
It will take long-term solutions after the camp is shut down to rehouse many of the thousands of people who lived there.
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ALTERNATIVE CROP A man uses a dental X-ray to watch a partial solar eclipse in Pristina on March 20, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ARMEND NIMANI (Photo credit should read ARMEND NIMANI/AFP/Getty Images) No, British Dentists Will Not Humiliate Refugees by Forcibly Examining Their Teeth
After a lawmaker suggested dental checks on refugees, British dentists refused.
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French far-right Front National (FN) party's President, Marine Le Pen, acknowledges the audience on stage during the FN's summer congress in Frejus, southern France, on September 18, 2016. / AFP / Franck PENNANT (Photo credit should read FRANCK PENNANT/AFP/Getty Images) Marine Le Pen’s Youth Brigade
In Britain and the United States, it’s older working-class voters who are alienated and looking to blow up the system. In France, it’s young people.
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ILE DU LEVANT, FRANCE: A couple of nudists stroll 21 June 2004 on a path leading to a beach on the Levant island, off the southern French port of Toulon. Back in the 1930s, early pioneering nudists settled on the remote and wildly beautiful Ile-du-Levant. Today mod-cons such as electricity have come to the Mediterranean isle but to save the environment, there are still no street-lights at night. AFP PHOTO BORIS HORVAT (Photo credit should read BORIS HORVAT/AFP/Getty Images) After Burkini Bans, France Moves to Open Nudist Park in Paris
Burkinis might be a threat to public order, but nudist camps? Those are just fine.
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TOPSHOT - Policemen stand next to migrants on shelters roof as agents dismantle shacks on March 1, 2016 in the "Jungle" migrant camp in the French northern port city of Calais. Workers were due to start a second day of destruction in the southern half of the camp, where thousands of migrants and refugees have been living while they try to reach Britain. / AFP / PHILIPPE HUGUEN (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images) France to U.K.: Brexit Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Help Us Handle the Crisis in Calais
French President François Hollande visited Calais and said the camp will be destroyed by the end of the year, but he needs Britain's help.
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French President Fran?ois Mitterrand gives a press conference, on May 5, 1983 at China's Great Hall of the People, in Beijing during his official visit in China. (Photo credit should read GABRIEL DUVAL/AFP/Getty Images) How French Socialism Built — and Destroyed — the European Union
The road to hell was paved with the good intentions of François Mitterrand.
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PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 10: Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba (R) leaves Elysee Palace after a press conference with French President Francois Hollande (L) regard to the COP 21 meeting in Paris, France on November 10, 2015. (Photo by Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) France’s Bongo-Bongo Party
As Gabon erupts in violence, the dark, twisted legacy tying this former colony to Paris is bubbling up to the surface.
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FRANCE-ATTACKS-MOSQUE How to Stop a Martyr
France is rolling out an experimental center to deradicalize homegrown extremists. The problem is no one really knows how to stop a terrorist before he picks up a gun.
