Cordon In Paris After Car Hits Police van
A car has crashed into a police van before bursting into flames around the Champs Élysées area of central Paris, police officials say. The driver, who had a weapon inside the car, was knocked...
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French Election: Macron Team Complete Rout With Assembly Win
French President Emmanuel Macron is celebrating a convincing victory in National Assembly elections that gives him the mandate to push through wide-ranging social and economic reforms. Three-quarters...
Cristiano Ronaldo Wants To Return To Manchester United
The Sun has reported that Cristiano Ronaldo has told his agent Jorge Mendes to seal a dream return to Manchester United. Manchester United will reportedly offer Spain goalkeeper David de Gea, 26, and...
President Macron’s Party Emerge Winners In Parliamentary Election Runoff
The Republic on the Move Party (LREM) led French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday won a large majority in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament in a second and final round of...
French Voter Turnout Falls Sharply In Second Round
Voter turnout in the second round of France’s parliamentary election is sharply down on the last vote five years ago, official statistics show. By midday on Sunday only 17.75% had cast a ballot,...
Keagan Dolly Urges South African Footballers To Play Abroad
Montpellier midfielder Keagan Dolly has urged more South African footballers to leave the country’s Premier Soccer League (PSL) and play abroad. The Bafana Bafana international moved from 2016...
South African Actress Terry Pheto Invited To France By Longines
Internationally award-winning South African actress, Terry Pheto, is set to attend the Prix de Diane Longines, the world’s most important race for fillies, this Sunday, 18 June 2017 in Chantilly...
Israeli and International Groups Warn of Looming Gaza Disaster
Israeli and international NGOS joined the UN on Wednesday in warning of a "total collapse" in Gaza if Israel goes ahead with plans to further cut power supplies to the enclave. A joint statement of...
Israeli and International Groups Warn of Looming Gaza Disaster
Israeli and international NGOS joined the UN on Wednesday in warning of a "total collapse" in Gaza if Israel goes ahead with plans to further cut power supplies to the enclave. A joint statement of...
Macron In Morocco To Discuss Libya, Qatar Crisis
French President Emmanuel Macron was in Morocco Wednesday on a 24-hour visit for talks on battling terrorism as well as the Libyan conflict and Qatar's dispute with its Gulf neighbours. As he stepped...
US Ally Marshall Islands Urges EU To Help Trump Change Climate Course
Marshall Islands president on Wednesday appealed to the European Union to help persuade President Donald Trump to change course on climate change as her US-allied Pacific archipelago fears rising...
Police Arrest Three Relatives Over Unsolved Murder of ‘Little Gregory’
French police investigating the killing of a four-year-old boy in 1984 arrested three of his relatives on Wednesday, raising hopes of a breakthrough in one of the country's most high-profile unsolved...
EU ‘open’ To Change of Heart, Say France and Germany
French President Emmanuel Macron says the possibility of the UK remaining in the European Union is an option until Brexit negotiations have concluded. He was speaking at a joint news conference with...
England Suffer Friendly Defeat By 10-Man France
England's final game of the season ended in defeat as they were deservedly beaten by effervescent France in an entertaining friendly in Paris. Harry Kane provided England with the perfect start when...
New York Names Street Corner After Elie Wiesel
New York on Tuesday renamed a Manhattan street corner after Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, Nobel peace laureate and humanitarian who died last year. The southwest corner of 84th Street and...
West Ham Open Talks Ahead of GBP20m Bid For Arsenal Star Giroud
The Arsenal striker is open to leaving the Emirates Stadium this summer and the Hammers are keen on securing his signature in this transfer window West Ham are interested in signing Olivier Giroud...
Saudis Insist No Blockade On Qatar As Gulf Crisis Simmers
Saudi Arabia insisted on Tuesday that its neighbour Qatar was not under blockade as a Gulf diplomatic dispute escalated amid increasing international concern over its effects on ordinary people. The...
EU Sanctions Hungary, Poland, Czechs Over Refugees
The EU launched legal action Tuesday against Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic for refusing to take in their share of refugees under a controversial solidarity plan. The move shows the...
Turkey’s Erdogan Slams ‘inhumane’ Isolation of Qatar
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday slammed the economic and political isolation of Qatar as inhumane and contrary to Islamic values after key Gulf states broke off ties with Ankara's...
Who’s Afraid of George Soros?
The world has a new puppetmaster. From his New York home, US financier-cum-philanthropist George Soros has manufactured Europe's migration crisis, backed a coup in Macedonia and sponsored protests in...