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World Mar 23
French yellow vests protest in Paris for 19th weekend as troops monitorAbout 6,000 police officers were deployed in the capital on Saturday and two drones were helping to monitor the demonstrations. French authorities also deployed soldiers to protect sensitive sites, allowing police forces to focus on maintaining order during the protests.
World Mar 18
France bans some yellow vest protests in Paris after riotsFrance's prime minister announced a ban Monday on yellow vest protests along the Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris and in two other cities following riots on Saturday that left luxury stores ransacked and charred from arson fires.
World Dec 12
Suspected Strasbourg gunman had criminal history, French police sayPolice union officials identified the suspected assailant as Frenchman Cherif Chekatt, a 29-year-old with a thick police record for crimes including armed robbery and monitored as a suspected religious radical by the French intelligence services.
World Dec 11
France shooting: 4 dead, several wounded in StrasbourgFrench prosecutors said a terrorism investigation was opened, though authorities did not announce a motive for the bloodshed.
World Dec 10
France’s Macron pleads for calm and makes concessions. Will it be enough for protesters?Even as French President Emmanuel Macron broke his silence on the protests in a brief televised address, yellow-vested demonstrators vowed to keep up the pressure on a man they see as arrogant, out-of-touch and "president of the rich."…
World Dec 05
Macron scraps French fuel tax hike amid violent ‘yellow vest’ demonstrationsProtesters celebrated the victory, but some said Macron's surrender came too late and is no longer enough to quell the mounting anger at their president, whom they consider out-of-touch with the problems of ordinary people.
World Dec 02
Macron tours damaged Arc de Triomphe after yellow vest protests in ParisFrench President Emmanuel Macron visited the graffiti-damaged Arc de Triomphe monument and held an emergency meeting on security Sunday, a day after central Paris was hit by France’s worst riot in a generation.
World Dec 01
80 injured as yellow vest protests in France enter a third weekendParis police says at least 80 people have been injured, including 16 police officers, in violent protests in the center of the French capital.
World Oct 11
Analysis: Macron too busy to rush French government reshuffleFrance's president is turning a government reshuffle into a soapbox against the time-pressures of modern politics and wall-to-wall news coverage.
World May 28
France’s President Macron rewards migrant hero who saved dangling childPARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday lauded as a hero a migrant from Mali who scaled an apartment building to save a child dangling from a balcony, and rewarded the young man's bravery with an offer of French…
