

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

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

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

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu of France in Paris on Monday after making the announcement that he had resigned, just a day after naming his government.

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

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

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.

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

Hezbollah said it had fired 100 rockets at military targets over the border with Israel as part of an “initial response” to the drone strike that killed a top commander.

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.

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.

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

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