France

News Hour: France has announced it will ask the international criminal court to investigate possible war crimes committed in Syria’s Aleppo. Russian-backed Syria forces have made significant advances in its renewed two-week-old offensive in Aleppo, seizing...

News Hour: France will lift a restriction zone on Thursday it imposed late last year in the country’s southwest to stop the spread of a bird flu virus that prompted trade restrictions on French poultry products,...

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...