🔴 Live: Macron to meet with some 220 mayors of towns that have witnessed...
French President Emmanuel Macron is to meet on Tuesday with some 220 mayors of towns that have witnessed riots that broke out since the death of the 17-year-old Nahel M. at the hands of a police...
View ArticleFrance's 'deeply-entrenched colonial mindset' cultivates a 'system of...
Hushed and visibly anguished, hundreds of mourners from France’s Islamic community formed a solemn procession from a mosque to a hillside cemetery on Saturday to bury a 17-year-old whose killing by...
View Article🔴 Live: Nanterre mayor calls for reconciliation after six nights of riots
The mayor of Nanterre, the Paris suburb where 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead by a police officer, called for reconciliation on Monday following six nights of riots. Demonstrations against the...
View Article🔴 Live: French police arrests fall sharply to 157 during sixth night of unrest
A firefighter has died overnight outside of Paris trying to douse burning vehicles, the interior minister announced Monday morning. It is not yet clear whether the fires were connected to the ongoing...
View ArticleFrench rioting appears to slow on 6th night after teen's death in Paris suburbs
Unrest across France sparked by the police shooting of a 17-year-old appeared to slow on its sixth night, but still public buildings, cars and municipal trash cans were targeted nationwide by fires...
View ArticleWhat economic cost after several nights of rioting in France?
After several nights of rioting in France, people are asking what the cost will be for those businesses and people who have suffered damage. The French government has asked insurers to reduce excess...
View ArticleSenegal politics: Macky Sall to announce whether he will seek 3rd term
Popular Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko called on the public to "come out en masse" on the eve of a speech in which President Macky Sall is expected to announce on Monday whether he will...
View ArticleNanterre Mayor takes part in anti-riot rallies in France, says violence has...
The mayor of Nanterre, where a 17-year-old was fatally shot by police last week during a traffic stop sparking nationwide riots, said violence in the city had abated. Speaking in the Paris suburb of...
View ArticleCrowds across France show solidarity at town halls targeted in rioting...
Crowds gathered at town halls across France Monday to show solidarity with local governments targeted in six nights of unrest touched off by the police shooting of a 17-year-old. The riots, which...
View ArticleFrench tourism sector faces cancellations over unrest
Days of protests across France after the fatal police shooting of a teenager have started to impact the country's tourism sector, with hotels and restaurants facing cancellations while some have also...
View ArticleFrance police shooting riots: Mayors rally in front of townhalls in anti-riot...
Gatherings took place in front of town halls across France on Monday in support of a French mayor and his family who were targeted in an attack at home. The attack came after the police killing of a...
View ArticleFrance riots: Macron meeting with mayors after night of relative calm
The violence in France of recent days appears to be abating with 72 arrests last night and 24 buildings set on fire or damaged and 159 vehicles destroyed - those figures considerably lower than during...
View ArticleMacron tells mayors the 'peak' of riots has passed but remains 'cautious'
French President Emmanuel Macron told a meeting of mayors on Tuesday that the "peak" of rioting had passed but he remained cautious about calling an end to the violence. FRANCE 24's Clovis Casali...
View Article"France is divided, we need to reunite people": Mayors' demands to president...
President Emmanuel Macron is meeting with the Mayors of 241 towns and cities affected across France, to try to hear about the experiences and guage the mood on the ground. FRANCE 24's Clovis Casalis...
View ArticleFundraiser for officer who shot Nahel outstrips donations to victim's family
A campaign to raise money for the family of the policeman who shot dead French teenager Nahel M. topped 1.47 million euros ($1.6 million) on Tuesday, far outstripping donations to Nahel's family and...
View Article'Diplomatic defeat for Macron': Malaise, 'climate of unrest' over on-going...
The riots triggered by the death of a teen, who was shot dead by police at a traffic stop, are the biggest in France's multi-ethnic high-rise estates in nearly two decades. And this is on the heels of...
View ArticleIn lead-up to Rugby World Cup, Paris Olympics, UMIH President 'confident'...
French President Emmanuel Macron met with hundreds of French officials on Tuesday to begin exploring the "deeper reasons" for the country's plunge into riots after a police officer killed a teenager...
View ArticleAs Netanyahu faces corruption trial, 'suspicions' abound over timing & scale...
Israel's army declared the end of a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank that killed 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier over the previous two days. The raid, involving...
View ArticleIsrael battling Iranian 'coordination' of militant groups & on-going attacks...
Israel withdrew troops from a West Bank militant stronghold Wednesday but warned that its most intense military operation in the occupied territory in nearly two decades could be repeated. Twelve...
View ArticleSfax a veritable 'pressure cooker' sparked by migration policy and political,...
Racial tensions in the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax flared into violence targeting migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, dozens of whom were forcibly evicted from the city or fled, witnesses said...
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