France

France fines Google $268 million for unfair treatment in online ads

By Associated Press

Practices used by Google “are particularly serious because they penalize Google’s competitors” in certain markets and publishers of mobile sites and applications, the statement by the Competition Authority said.

Visiting South Africa, France’s Macron pledges vaccine help

By Mogomotsi Magome, Associated Press

Macron also pledged that France will help South Africa and other African countries to develop the capacity to produce their own vaccines to fight the pandemic.

Police fire tear gas on banned Palestinian march in Paris

By Elaine Ganley, Associated Press

French riot police fired tear gas and used water cannons Saturday in Paris as protesters supporting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip defied a ban on marching in the French capital.

French protesters demand trial for Jewish woman’s killer

By Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press

Protesters in Paris and other French cities on Sunday denounced a ruling by France’s highest court that the killer of Jewish woman Sarah Halimi was not criminally responsible and therefore could not go on trial.

Out of the cave: French isolation study ends after 40 days

By Renata Brito, Associated Press

ver wonder what it would feel like to unplug from a hyperconnected world and hide away in a dark cave for 40 days? Fifteen people in France did just that, emerging Saturday from a scientific experiment to say that time…

French prosecutors open terror probe in police official’s killing

By Angela Charlton, Michel Euler, Associated Press

France's national anti-terrorism prosecutor said his office took over the probe because the attacker had staked out the station, because of statements he made during the attack, and because he targeted a police official.

Rwanda report said France bears responsibility for ‘enabling’ the 1994 genocide

By Associated Press

The 600-page report says that France “did nothing to stop” the massacres, in April and May 1994, and in the years after the genocide tried to cover up its role and even offered protection to some perpetrators.

France to aid kids’ mental health with free counseling

By Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that free psychological counseling will be provided to children and teenagers struck by a wave of mental health difficulties that accompanied the coronavirus pandemic.

France to close schools, ban domestic travel as virus surges

By Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a three-week nationwide school closure and a month-long domestic travel ban.

Major European nations suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccine

By Frank Jordans, Associated Press

Spain will stop administering the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for two weeks while experts review its safety, Health Minister Carolina Dias announced Monday.