A well-known and extreme right-wing activist in France shot himself inside France iconic Notre Dame Cathedral on Tuesday, possibly as a protest against a new gay marriage law.
France finally became the 14th country to legalize gay marriage on Saturday when President Francois Hollande signed the bill that legalizes same sex marriage into law. But ugly protests that have marked the legal process will continue even now that the bill is passed.
Following a six-month campaign that revived the country's conservative movement — and inspired hundreds of colorful and often revealing counter-protests — France became the 14th country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage on Tuesday.
In the biggest terrorist attack in Libya since the assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi last September, a car bomb exploded outside the French embassy in Tripoli, wounding two French guards.
After clearing an important hurdle in the French Senate this morning, a new bill that would allowing nationwide same-sex marriage will likely become law by the end of the summer.
Gay marriage equality may slowly be sweeping across Europe. Taking a cue from their English neighbors, the French took one very big step toward legalizing gay marriage on Tuesday.
Good news, history fans: Researchers revealed on Wednesday that the vast majority of the 300,000 ancient manuscripts that had supposedly been burned by Malian rebels are actually "safe and sound."
Today, the U.K. announced that it would be sending around 350 troops to support the French operation in Mali, which means Prime Minister David Cameron has some explaining to do
French troops managed to seize the famous town of Timbuktu over the weekend, but not before feeling rebels continued their assault not just on the people, but on the very culture and history of the region.
People in northern Mali celebrated on Sunday night after French troops won a series of key victories over the Islamist rebels who've been terrorizing the region for weeks.
Following its snobbish tradition of doing away with longstanding Internet-related terminology, the French government is replacing "hashtag" with "mot-diese" — to which we say... bravo!
The Algerian military says it's searching the premises after a confusing day, leaving the rest of us to figure out what the French operation in Mali has to do with possibly hundreds of people fending for their lives, complete with escaping hostages (some of them American) who may have had explosives strapped to their chests, plus helicopters, a U.S. drone, angry Brits, and more.
In a turnaround for the Pentagon, the U.S. has agreed to help French troops deploy to the west African nation, where the French military is currently trying to push back on the ground against a growing faction of militants.
A dangerous standoff is taking place at a gas facility in the Sahara Desert, where Islamic militants are holding dozens of oil company employees hostage, and Algerian soldiers have attempted to free them.
A group of al-Qaeda militants snuck over the border from Mali into Algeria on Wednesday morning and claims to have taken 41 hostages from a gas production facility, including seven Americans. The situation appears to have become larger and more serious than previously imagined.
The Islamic militant group holding a French intelligence agent for last three years says he survived the botched rescue attempt made by his countrymen, but that they have decided to kill him anyway in retaliation.
What exactly did White House Press Secretary Jay Carney mean when he said at his briefing Tuesday afternoon the U.S. is considering helping France with their assault against rebel forces in Mali?
Jeffrey Toobin on Obama's gay marriage stance, David A. Bell on France's domestic malaise, Matthew Yglesias on dueling hedge-fund managers, Dana Milbank on Obama's new bad-cop routine, and Mark Frazier on an aging China.
Antonio Villaraigosa on immigration reform, George Packer on Southern Republicans, Jennifer Welsh on France's intervention in Mali, Chris Cillizza on the Senate losing its lions, and Gary Younge on Obama's Iraq amnesia.
France continued its attack on Islamist rebels in northern Mali today as the nation suddenly finds itself taking the lead in the war against al Qaeda terrorists in Africa.
The scene in Bulomarer, Somalia on late Friday night was like the end of Zero Dark Thirty gone terribly awry, as a clandestine hostage extraction mission turned into an hours-long shootout.
In an attempt to defend the troubled government from Islamic extremists threatening to bring it down, French military forces have entered the West African country.
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Three members of a Turkish separatist group were found dead in Paris this morning in what police say was a politically motivated execution.
Another famous French film icon is griping with the government of France and threatening to denounce their heritage to become, of all things, Russian if their demands are not met. Depardieu may have started a trend, but Brigitte Bardot brings a prettier face to the French exodus.
In the midst of a French flap over taxing the rich, Putin publicly offered Depardieu a Russian passport. But that was only the start: According to the Kremlin's official Twitter account, Depardieu is now an actual citizen of Russia.
When France's Francois Hollande was elected President this year, his biggest mission was going to be reducing the country's massive deficit. His solution was an impressive 75 percent tax on earnings over $1 million. Unfortunately, that dream is dead.
Noam Scheiber on the truth about the fiscal cliff, Paul Krugman on the end of growth, Robert Samuelson on elite high schools, Walter Russell Mead on Syria, and Bruce Crumley on France's colonial legacy.
An appeals court in France refused to drop prostitution-related claims against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, which means his legal troubles are not yet finished after more than a year of sexual scandals.
Gérard Depardieu hasn't been making a ton of friends in recent years, and now it looks like he might have just offended the entire nation of France.
Everybody knew that Israel's move to build new settlements in the previously off-limits area outside Jerusalem known as E1 would anger friends and enemies alike. But few probably guessed that it would send European ambassadors fleeing the country.
The debate over American corporation skipping out on their tax bills is getting serious as European leaders have started talking about serious things like actual trials.
Andrew Ross Sorkin on J.C. Penney, Jon Lee Anderson on Petraeus, Michael Tomasky on the death of Reaganomics, Saransh Sehgal on Tibet, and Christine Ockrent on François Hollande.
American elections are always a global event, but with this year's emphasis on the Electoral College, foreigners are cramming to re-learn the complicated state-by-state election system.
Beekeepers in Ribeauville, France, were puzzled about why their bees were producing honey that came out green and blue ... until they found a biogas plant processing Mars candy waste some two-and-a-half miles away.
There's more to France's new austerity budget than its proposed record-high tax rate, but the 75 percent tax on those making a million euros ($1.29 million) or more is certainly the thing that has people talking.
Less than a year after getting its office firebombed over a cartoon of Mohammed, the French staire magazine Charlie Hedbo couldn't pass up an opportunity to insert itself into the controversy and protests engulfing the Muslim world.
The scandalous publication of Kate Middleton's unsuspecting breasts has created three case studies surrounding the right to publish royal private parts, and private is the key word here.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn finally got himself some positive news coverage in France, and he did it the way he frequently gets into the headlines: By getting involved with a woman. But it's different this time.
When the rumors started swirling that Anne Sinclair was planning to leave her then-husband Dominique Strauss-Kahn it didn't come as any surprise, nor could we blame her, and now that she's talking openly about their split, she sounds like she's doing well.
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In less than 24 hours, two undetonated bombs were found in the cities of Warsaw and Munich causing mass evacuations, which made us wonder just how common it is to find a 70-year-old, 3,000 lb. bomb in bustling European cities.
An Al-Jazeera documentary suggesting that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was killed by radioactive polonium was enough for French authorities to open a murder investigation after the late Palestinian leader's family requested one last month.
It feels like déjà vu all over again: France, which led the charge for military intervention in Libya last year, is now backing a partial no-fly zone in Syria—a step that would for all practical purposes amount to a declaration of war.
European stocks went up this morning even as new GDP numbers showed that most its national economies are shrinking. Just not as quickly as everyone feared.
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Google has admitted to having Street View data it said it had deleted in France, following its admission last Friday of having kept information from the United Kingdom, too.
The town of Angers in France is petitioning Queen Elizabeth II to turn over the Crown Jewels of England because they say that crowns were basically stolen from them about 500 years ago.
When Nicolas Sarkozy left office, most thought French politics would become way less interesting without him and his beautiful wife, Carla Bruni. The Hollande family are proving to be quite capable of filling the hole with some serious family Twitter drama, though.
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