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Police made 719 arrests nationwide by early on Sunday following a mass security deployment aimed at quelling France's worst social upheaval in years

Rioting and looting raged in cities around France for a fourth night despite a huge police deployment and 1,311 arrests

More than 600 people were arrested and at least 200 police officers injured as the government struggled to restore order on a third night of unrest

Several leaders expressed their condolences over the tragedy in which 288 people have been killed and over 1,000 injured in Odisha train accident

Volodymyr Zelenskyy will make a surprise visit to Paris for talks on Sunday night with French President

French President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular plan to raise France's retirement age from 62 to 64 was enacted into law

Emmanuel Macron appealed on Thursday to Chinese leader Xi Jinping to “bring Russia to its senses” and help make “lasting peace” in Ukraine

Protests and strikes against unpopular pension reforms kicked off again Tuesday across France

Protesters angry at French President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms continued with scattered actions on Friday

Since becoming president in 2017, Macron often has been accused of arrogance and being out of touch

The fury Borne had faced in the National Assembly poured into the streets with citizens resolving to carry on their protests against the widely unpopular measure

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It is clear Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has brought together members states around it like never before in the last two decades.

Paris: Two massive wildfires raging in southwestern France over the past week have evacuated at least 36,000 people from home and burned 20,600 hectares of land, French media reported. During a visit to the fire zones in Gironde, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a major national project to replant trees and regrow the damaged forests, […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Copenhagen on Tuesday for talks with his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen on enhancing the bilateral relationship. After reaching the Danish capital, on the second leg of his three nation European visit, Modi, in a tweet, said: “I am very grateful to PM Frederiksen for the warm welcome. […]

The defeat of the politics of polarisation and hatred in the recent presidential elections in France holds significance that goes beyond Europe. President Emmanuel Macron, who represents centrist politics, won by a fairly comfortable margin over Le Pen of the far-right ideology, thereby arresting the tide of right-wing extremist tendencies in a society that is […]

Paris: Emmanuel Macron on Sunday (local time) won a second term in France’s presidential election with 58.2 percent of the vote, local media reported. Macron’s far-right challenger Marine Le Pen won 41.8 per cent of the vote in an election that saw the country’s highest abstention rate in 50 years, France 24 reported citing an […]

Paris: As France votes today for the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron faces stiff competition from far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Macron enjoyed solid support in the beginning as he tried to achieve a diplomatic solution to the situation in Ukraine and led talks on economic sanctions against Russia, reported NHK World. However, his rival Le […]

Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet him, salting the proposal with sarcasm. “Sit down with me to negotiate, just not at 30 meters,” he said Thursday, apparently referring to recent photos of Putin sitting at one end of an extremely long table when he met with French […]

Moscow: French President Emmanuel Macron believes that “the worst is yet to come” in Ukraine after a telephonic conversation with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday, said an aide to the French leader. Putin held a 90-minute talk with Macron and according to aide it appeared his (Putin) intent on seizing “the whole” of the […]