Young Muslim women protest proposed French ban
Sixteen year-old Mariem Chourak is a devout Muslim who considers wearing a hijab an expression of her devotion to the Prophet Mohammad, but a proposal...
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Summer holiday abroad? Too soon to guarantee that, says French minister
France said on Sunday it was too soon to say whether holidays abroad would be possible this summer as a third wave of coronavirus infections...
Wales win Six Nations as Scotland claim memorable win against France
Wales claimed their second Six Nations title in three years after France lost 27-23 to Scotland as the visitors celebrated their first win in Paris...
Paris goes into lockdown as COVID-19 variant rampages
France imposed a month-long lockdown on Paris and parts of the north after a faltering vaccine rollout and spread of highly contagious coronavirus variants forced President...
Paris supports a federation in Cyprus, French Ambassador tells CNA (video)
A two-state solution in Cyprus is not a real solution, the new French Ambassador in Cyprus, Salina Grenet-Catalano, has told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA),...
Anastasiades and Macron exchange views over the phone
As part of their regular contacts, President Nicos Anastasiades spoke by phone on Sunday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macros, government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos said...
Ambassadors present credentials
France pledged on Tuesday to further increase security and defence ties with Cyprus and called for the resumption of negotiations based on UN parameters. The...
Southwest France hit by heavy floods, Paris area on flood alert
Southwestern France was hit by heavy flooding on Monday following days of torrential rain, and several other regions including eastern Paris were on flood alert...
France’s Macron aims to tackle tobacco and alcohol in 10-year cancer plan
French President Emmanuel Macron wants the generation that will turn 20 in 2030 to be the first tobacco-free one, and also promised on Thursday to...
France heading for a third lockdown?
The daily number of new coronavirus infections in France stayed above 20,000 on average for the fourth straight day on Tuesday while hospitalisations reached an eight-week high...
Paris hospital executives warn of tough months ahead
The spread of the coronavirus in France could sharply accelerate in the coming months due to the emergence of a more contagious variant, two Paris...
French police shut down huge party defying Covid-19 restrictions (Updated)
Several hundred French police on Saturday shut down an illegal rave party in northwestern France that had been underway since New Year’s Eve in defiance...
British PM Johnson’s father applying for French citizenship
The father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday he was in the process of applying for a French passport to maintain his...
Macron says he’s doing fine after catching Covid-19, working at slower pace
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he was doing fine a day after testing positive for COVID-19, but was working at a slower pace...
France to press on with law on “unrepublican” behaviour
France’s government decided on Wednesday to press ahead with a law it says will crack down on practices that go against the values of the...
Former French President Giscard d’Estaing dies at 94
Former French president Valery Giscard d’Estaing, a key architect of European integration who sought to liberalise the economy and social attitudes after years of conservative...
Cyprus, France hold joint search and rescue exercise (photos)
Cyprus and France held a joint search and rescue operation at sea on Friday coordinated by the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Larnaca. The exercise,...
House president offers condolences to Austria and France after terrorist attacks
House president Adamos Adamou on Thursday sent letters to the presidents of the Austrian federal and national councils Andrea Eder-Gitschthaler and Wolfgang Sobotka and to...
France on alert as official warns of more militant attacks after Nice church killings
France’s interior minister said on Friday more militant attacks on its soil were likely and the country was engaged in a war against Islamist ideology...
Police cagey on whether additional security in place at French embassy
Police said Thursday they could neither confirm nor deny whether additional policing measures had been put in place at the French embassy in Nicosia, citing...