12 articles
A Reuters clip of a couple at a café table near the Arc de Triomphe, with fires burning behind them, went around the world this week. The Paris terrasse has sat beside unrest before, in 1968, in 2015 and in the yellow-vest years.
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A month of lycée blockades over missing teachers and crumbling schools spilled into nationwide marches on October 17. What students want, what the government has said, what comes next, and what Indian students and travellers in France should check now.
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In 2013 France moved to ban beauty contests for girls under 16. The trigger: a Vogue photo of a sexualized 10-year-old that shocked the country.
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Titan CEO Maurice Taylor fired off a second blistering letter to France's industry minister, praising its women and wine while savaging its work ethic.
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After France intervened in Mali in January 2013, Islamist groups tied to al-Qaeda pledged retaliatory attacks on French soil.
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Thieves dug up dozens of graves at Paris's Pantin cemetery for gold teeth, and gravediggers were among those arrested in the 2012 crime wave.
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In November 2012, France's industry minister said ArcelorMittal was no longer welcome in the country, escalating the fight over the Florange steel plant.
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France closed 20 embassies across the Muslim world in September 2012 after Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad — a landmark free-speech clash.
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In May 2012 a French prosecutor in Lille opened a preliminary rape investigation against Strauss-Kahn over an alleged December 2010 incident in Washington.
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The former IMF chief was charged with aggravated pimping in the Carlton Affair probe. Three years later, a French court acquitted him of the charges.
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In 2011, Dominique Strauss-Kahn looked like France's next president. A New York arrest ended that — and exposed how French political culture shielded
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A BVA-Gallup survey ranked France among the world's least happy nations and India among the most optimistic. Subjective wellbeing is about expectations.
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