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French budget talks teetered on the brink of collapse on Wednesday, a day after Socialist party officials suspended their ...

French budget talks are moving ahead and must not be "taken hostage" by a dispute over remarks the prime minister made about ...

Eve Blouin, daughter of African independence activist Andrée Blouin, speaks to The World’s Host Marco Werman about a new ...

Amid an uncertain political climate, designers at the latest menswear show in Paris sent messages of resilience and ...

Algerian lawmakers have condemned the European Parliament for a resolution criticizing the arrest of French-Algerian novelist ...

How is it that so many Americans seem to have abandoned any commitment to personal virtue — at least in their political lives ...

Their intention is to force Emmanuel Macron to resign ahead of the French presidential election due in 2027. Both consider it in their respective political interests to call for this election earlier.

Michael Lavalette looks at the life and works of the Palestinian writer and activist Ghassan Kanafani and reviews two recent ...

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with concerts and lion dances, enjoy a discounted meal during Winter Restaurant Week, or immerse ...

The new government’s budget announcement would ... well short of the 288 it needed to pass. French politics was plunged into chaos last year when Macron called an election to break political ...

Nothing transports us to enchanted lands quite as powerfully as music does. Here’s a list of 10 recent children’s picture books that feature characters – some real, some invented – whose lives were ...