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Air France Flight to U.S. Is Diverted to Montreal Over Congolese Passenger Amid Ebola Fears

21 May 2026 at 14:22
An Air France plane was sent to Montreal because a passenger from the Democratic Republic of Congo was on board. The U.S. has closed its borders to recent visitors to the African country.

Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center

10 January 2026 at 05:46
The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned about declines in attendance and donations during President Trump’s second term.

Washington National Opera officials contend that exiting the Kennedy Center would also give it more control over programming decisions.

Brigitte Bardot’s Legacy of Racist Rhetoric

1 January 2026 at 00:37
The actress, who died this week at 91, was an icon of 1960s cinema. She was also a hero to the French far right.

Brigitte Bardot, center, appeared in court in 1997 on charges of inciting racial hatred.

Brigitte Bardot Was the Face of a Nation

30 December 2025 at 16:00
A star who never played coy for the camera was once an emblem of France.

She was an original 1950s bombshell, alongside Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe.

France’s Energy Giant Sees Opportunity in the Volatile Electricity Market

7 October 2025 at 04:00
Hoping to help grid operators adapt to changes buffeting the power markets, TotalEnergies is assembling a portfolio of battery farms and natural-gas-fired power plants.

Above the air-cooled condensers at the TotalEnergies power plant in Toul, France.

Macron Says Israel Can’t Have ‘Free Pass’ in Gaza

30 May 2025 at 19:27
A series of exchanges marked a new low point in the relationship between France and Israel, which accused the French president of “a crusade against the Jewish state.”

President Emmanuel Macron of France, speaking in Singapore on Friday.

During Pelicot Trial, Avignon’s Ramparts Give a Platform to Denounce ‘Rape Culture’

20 December 2024 at 10:10
A feminist collective, the Amazons of Avignon, has been plastering the walls of the city with testimony from the trial of the 51 men who were convicted in the Gisèle Pelicot rape case.

The walls of Avignon, France, draped with a banner in French meaning “Rape is rape.” The Pelicot trial was occurring in the modern courthouse just across the road.

51 Men Guilty in Rape Trial That Horrified France

Dominique Pelicot, who admitted to drugging and raping his wife for almost a decade and to inviting dozens of strangers to join him, was convicted on Thursday of aggravated rape and other charges and was sentenced to the maximum 20 years in prison. The court also convicted the 50 other defendants, most of them on rape charges. Catherine Porter, a New York Times reporter, followed the four-month trial and reports from Avignon.

Who Are the 51 Men Convicted in the Gisèle Pelicot Rape Trial?

19 December 2024 at 16:23
Most of the accused received sentences of eight to 10 years, less than the 10- to 18-year terms that the public prosecutor had recommended.

A lawyer for one of the accused, Paul Gontard, speaking to reporters after the verdict in Avignon, France, on Thursday.

How Notre-Dame Was Reborn

7 December 2024 at 08:42
It took about 250 companies, 2,000 workers, about $900 million, a tight deadline and a lot of national pride.

A French Museum Collides With New Jersey Politics

3 July 2024 at 09:03
State lawmakers voted to pull funding for an outpost of the Pompidou Center in Jersey City, blaming rising costs. The mayor said the decision was retribution.

Was the Stone Age Really the Wood Age?

4 May 2024 at 07:00
Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed.

Macron Unsettles NATO Allies Even As He Seeks to Rattle Putin

28 February 2024 at 22:33
The French president’s openness to Western troops in Ukraine signaled a quest for military resolve. But some allies felt blindsided.

President Emmanuel Macron at Élysée Palace on Monday. “The defeat of Russia is indispensable to the security and stability of Europe,” he said this week.

French Senate Votes to Enshrine Abortion Access in Constitution

28 February 2024 at 20:52
The vote by lawmakers comes after supporters of the measure in France were galvanized by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

France’s justice minister, Éric Dupond-Moretti, speaks before a Senate vote Wednesday on a government plan to enshrine the “guaranteed freedom” to have an abortion in the French Constitution.

Despite Bans, Disabled Women Are Still Being Sterilized in Europe

26 November 2023 at 00:22
Governments have declared the practice a human rights violation. But they have made exceptions that are divisive among parents, doctors and social workers.

At age 20, Kristin Smith’s mother arranged for her to have a tubal ligation.

A Former French President Gives a Voice to Obstinate Russian Sympathies

27 August 2023 at 09:26
Remarks by Nicolas Sarkozy have raised fears that Europe’s pro-Putin chorus may grow louder as Ukraine’s plodding counteroffensive puts pressure on Western resolve.

Former President Nicolas Sarkozy of France arriving for a meeting on the Russian attack of Ukraine in Paris in February 2022.

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