France

News Hour: Dozens of inmates at a prison in central France escaped from their cells and rioted on Monday after stealing the keys of a warden, prison sources said. “Two prisoners jostled a guard and managed...

News Hour: The death toll from a fire in northern France this month, sparked by birthday cake candles, rose to 14 on Thursday after a young woman died in a Paris hospital, a family lawyer said,...

News Hour: A group of 160 asylum seekers left Greece recently and arrived safely in France with IOM’s support under the European Union’s Relocation Programme. The group comprised 128 Syrians, 30 Iraqis, and two stateless individuals....

News Hour: French Prime Minister Manuel Valls defended a ban on burkinis in more than a dozen coastal towns on Thursday, saying France was locked in a “battle of cultures” and that the full-body swimsuit symbolized...

News Hour: Former French leader Nicolas Sarkozy announced on Monday he will seek the nomination of his centre-right party to stand in next year’s presidential election, reports BSS. “I have decided to be a candidate in...

News Hour: The team was able to show through neutron measurements made at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, that lithium ions do not penetrate deeply into the silicon. During the charge cycle, a 20-nm anode...

News Hour: France fought back from fifth place to win the Team Show Jumping Competition, claiming their first gold in the event since Montreal 1976 and a second equestrian title at Rio 2016. USA team started...

News Hour: Two knife-wielding attackers, several hostages, and an elderly priest cut throat — that’s a few keywords of the latest terror attack that has rattled the nerves of millions in Europe and beyond, reinforcing the...

News Hour: France’s National Assembly voted in the early hours of Wednesday to extend the country’s state of emergency for six months following last week’s massacre in Nice, reports BSS. The state of emergency has been...

News Hour: France will decide whether to extend the state of emergency for a fourth time, possibly until 2017, after a massacre in Nice that left 84 people dead, reports BSS. President Francois Hollande was this...