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Flawed policies fueling French protests, yellow jackets spill into Belgium
Dec 03, 2018 13:52France, along with other western countries, which had tried to blow out of proportion the isolated incidents of economic protests in Iran as a mass movement against the Islamic Republic, is now facing nationwide demonstrations against the government as Paris is presenting the spectacle of a war zone, threatening to bring down the ruling regime.
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French government 'not planning to impose state of emergency'
Dec 03, 2018 10:46The French government says it has no plans to impose a state of emergency amid the worst civil unrest in France in more than a decade.
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France mulls state of emergency as protests escalate
Dec 02, 2018 05:55The French government says it will consider imposing a state of emergency in the wake of the country's worst civil unrest in more than a decade, which has caught authorities off guard.
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French police fire tear gas at protesters in Paris, arrest 107
Dec 01, 2018 09:53French police have fired tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters marching on the Champs-Elysees in the capital Paris.
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Izadis join case against French firm for paying Daesh
Dec 01, 2018 09:46A group of women from Iraq's Izadi religious minority who were kidnapped and sexually abused by Daesh are seeking to join a legal case against a French firm charged with paying millions to the terrorist group.
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China’s CNPC replaces Total in Iran’s South Pars project: Oil Minister
Nov 26, 2018 08:46Tehran says China’s state-owned energy giant CNPC has replaced Total in the multibillion-dollar South Pars gas project after the French company left Iran due to the return of US sanctions.
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Protests on Champs Elysees rages through the night
Nov 25, 2018 05:04Violent protests on the Champs Elysees continued into the evening on Saturday, November 24, after a day in which thousands in yellow high-visibility vests barricaded the famous avenue and clashed with police officers.
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French rights group sues Abu Dhabi crown prince over war crimes in Yemen
Nov 22, 2018 02:55A rights group based in France has filed a lawsuit against Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan during his visit to Paris over his complicity in war crimes committed in Yemen.
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In Berlin, French president urges Europe to do more for own defense, security
Nov 19, 2018 06:19In Berlin, President Emmanuel Macron of France renews the call for Europe to do more for its own defense and security, saying the continent cannot “become of plaything of great powers,” days after he irked the US by urging the formation of an independent European army.
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More than 400 hurt in French fuel price protests
Nov 18, 2018 12:23More than 400 people were hurt, 14 seriously, in a day and night of "yellow vest" fuel price protests around France that claimed one life, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said on Sunday.