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Mar 04

Vance irks allies in UK, France with skeptical comments about Ukraine peacekeeping mission proposal

By Aamer Madhani, Jill Lawless, Associated Press

Vance, in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity aired Monday evening, said the economic pact with Kyiv sought by President Donald Trump “is a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought…

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Mar 02

European leaders face a ‘once in a generation moment,’ Starmer says on ending war in Ukraine

By Brian Melley, Associated Press

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told leaders gathered Sunday for a summit on the war in Ukraine that they need to step up and continue to support Kyiv and meet a “once in a generation moment” for the security of…

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Feb 24

A French surgeon is on trial accused of raping or abusing 299 people, mostly child patients

By Jade le Deley, Nicolas Vaux-Montagny, Associated Press

A former surgeon went on trial in France on Monday for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims, most of them children who were his patients, in what investigators and his own notebooks describe as a pattern of…

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Feb 23

France and Britain’s leaders head to Washington to urge Trump not to abandon Ukraine

By Jill Lawless, Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press

The leaders of France and Britain are making tag-team visits to Washington this week as Europe attempts to persuade President Donald Trump not to abandon Ukraine in pursuit of a peace deal in the three-year-old war with Russia.

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Feb 18

French lawmakers consider banning headscarves in sport. Amnesty International says it would discriminate against Muslims

By Samuel Petrequin, Associated Press

The bill is backed by right-wing senators and will be debated in the upper house of the French parliament. Its aim is to ban "ostensibly religious" clothing and symbols during competitions.

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Jan 28

Mona Lisa to get dedicated room in the Louvre in museum renovation, Macron says

By Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press

Macron did not disclose the cost, estimated to run into hundreds of millions of euros, to modernize the most visited museum in the world.

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Jan 16

American accused of sexual assault has been extradited from France to the U.S.

By Nicolas Vaux-Montagny, Sylvie Corbet, Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press

An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said “So I raped you” was extradited Thursday from France to the United States.

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Jan 14

New French PM says he’ll renegotiate the challenged plan to raise the retirement age

By Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press

France’s new prime minister, François Bayrou, has announced the renegotiation of a contested plan raising the retirement age from 62 to 64.

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Jan 07

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader often accused of racism and antisemitism, dies at 96

By Thomas Adamson, Sylvie Corbet, Elaine Ganley, Associated Press

A polarizing figure in French politics, Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence.

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Dec 23

France has a new government. Here’s what it needs to do now

By Associated Press

The new government enters office after months of political deadlock and crisis and pressure from financial markets to reduce France’s colossal debt.

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