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“As US pulls away, France could offer nuclear shield for Europe” March 2025
“France ratchets up tensions with Algeria, escalating diplomatic crisis with roots in immigration debate” February 2025
“Fresh claims of abuse at Catholic school leave French PM Bayrou on the defensive” February 2025
“Japan’s manga lures French readers craving something different” February 2025
“France turns over final Sahel military base amid forced withdrawal from Chad” January 2025
“Jean-Marie Le Pen, controversial founder of France’s extreme-right National Front, has died at 96” January 2025
“In France, anger over sentences in mass rape trial despite Dominique Pelicot getting maximum” 2024
“France grapples with idea of ‘ordinary’ rapists at Gisèle Pelicot trial” 2024
“The Gisèle Pelicot rape trial shines a new spotlight on consent” 2024
“Gisèle Pelicot, bearing witness at mass rape trial, pulls back curtain on what survivors face” 2024
“80 years on, France recognizes the diverse troops of Operation Dragoon” 2024
“In a French far-right stronghold, residents grapple with an RN win” 2024
“In Marseille, Glucksmann takes battle against far right to the streets” 2024
“‘Something bigger than ourselves’: Biden stresses democratic values at D-Day landing site” 2024
“Who is Jordan Bardella, the far-right politician on the rise in French polls?” 2024
“France has a growing gang problem. It's so far failed to tackle it” 2023
“'A house and a home are not the same thing': What happens to migrants who are moved out of Paris” 2023
“‘It’s purely political’: Why France’s newest immigration bill is so controversial” 2023
“Inside the network deporting thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia” 2023
“‘Stealing a generation’: Ukrainian children deported to Russia face uncertain future” 2023
“‘They’re dying in large numbers’: Disabled Ukrainians face abuse in institutions” 2023
“Trafficking, abuse, neglect: The unseen fallout from orphanage tourism” 2022
”In Lyon’s network of hidden passageways, footfalls of the past” 2022
”In France’s Jura region, dinosaur fossils have left a footprint on the wine industry” 2022
”In southeastern France, touring the village where Marc Chagall found inspiration” 2021
“Want to stay long term in France? First come the classes on how to be French.” 2021
“In a gray, empty Paris, this corner shop’s colorful posters transport you wherever you want to go” 2021
“Marseille: this city is not France – and that’s what’s great about it” April 2024
“We'll always have Paris - and that's why I had to leave” 2023
“‘16-64 is a beer, not a career’: What it’s like in Paris after weeks of pension reform protests” 2023
“Paris laptop bans prove that new-wave coffee shops can’t compete with the classic cafes” 2022
