France

SNCF employees and French gendarmes inspect the scene of a suspected attack on the high speed railway network at Croiselles, northern France on July 26, 2024. (Photo by DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Arson attacks on France’s rail network have taken place in what authorities are calling a “massive attack to destabilize the […]

La Poste (LONDON) — France’s postal service is expected to raise quite a bit of dough after releasing a brand new scratch-and-sniff stamp that smells like a baguette with just over two months to go until the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris. La Poste, the French postal service announced the crumby idea on Friday, […]

ABC News LONDON — France’s foreign minister has suggested that Western countries should be considering the idea that NATO troops should perhaps be deployed to Ukraine in non-combat roles to assist Ukraine. Foreign Minister Stéphane Sejourne in France’s parliament on Wednesday elaborated further, saying NATO troops could potentially be deployed into Ukraine to assist with […]

Bernard Van Berg / EyeEm/Getty Images (PARIS) — France has been beset by violent unrest in recent days after a police officer shot and killed a teenager in a Paris suburb. Here’s what we know about the situation: What sparked the protests? A17-year-old driver was shot dead by a police officer during a traffic check […]

Telmo Pinto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (PARIS) — France is now the first country in Europe to regulate influencer marketing on social media, cracking down on what people can monetize and promote online with a new law passed on Thursday. “The law was passed in record time and unanimously, which shows how much support it had […]

Carl Court/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the United Kingdom on Monday for “substantive” talks with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who said ahead of the meeting that his country would supply Ukraine with hundreds of missiles and long-range attack drones. “I will meet my friend Rishi. We will conduct substantive negotiations […]