France
Planes to be grounded in France due to aviation strike
February 04, 2012Massive flight cancellations are expected to happen from Monday to Thursday in France due to a strike of the airlines’ employees. All the airports in France might be affected. Air France airline informs on its official website about the cancellations...
Christmas in the World. France (VIDEO)
December 22, 2011By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- France is a Catholic country with multiple customs and traditions of Christmas. On the Eve, the faithful people go to church to be present at the midnight service. Christmas Eve represents an ideal opportunity...
Woman in face veil detained as France enforces ban
April 11, 2011A woman has been detained in France for wearing an Islamic veil across her face, after a law banning the garment in public came into force. Police said she was held not because of her veil but for taking part in an unauthorised protest against the ban...
French gay marriage ban upheld by constitutional court
January 28, 2011The French constitutional court has upheld a ban on gay marriage, which was challenged by a lesbian couple with four children. The court ruled that the ban, challenged by Corinne Cestino and Sophie Hasslauer, was in keeping with the constitution. ...
First Haitian adoptees arrive in Paris
December 23, 2010Some French families got an early Christmas present when the first group of more than 300 adopted Haitian children landed in Paris. Their arrival ends months of waiting, but not the controversy over their adoption. The 113 Haitian children got a red...
Police end French nursery school hostage drama
December 14, 2010A hostage drama in a nursery school in France has ended in the teenage hostage-taker surrendering to the police and releasing the hostages he'd held in the school. Police have arrested a 17-year-old who took a class full of children hostage in a...
France 'underestimates true scale of neonaticide'
December 13, 2010At least five times more French infants are killed by their mothers within 24 hours of birth than official mortality statistics suggest, a study says. France's Inserm institute researchers identified 27 out of 1.3 million babies born over five years...
Iran stoning woman not executed, France says
November 03, 2010An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery has not yet been executed, says French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. A rights group had said Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani could face the death penalty as early as Wednesday. Mr Kouchner...
French workers vow to keep protesting retirement reform
October 24, 2010Strikes continue in France and the country is bracing for another day of demonstrations next Thursday over a new retirement reform bill that the country's Senate passed on Friday. President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to sign the bill into law soon. ...
Demonstrations continue as French senate debates reform bill
October 21, 2010Demonstrators protesting a proposed French law to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 continued to disrupt France for a seventh day. Some public transport in Paris, and many regional trains were running better than when the protests against raising...