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January 18, 2019

French rapper MHD charged with murder over deadly fight in Paris

French rapper MHD was on Thursday charged with murder over a fight that led to the death of a young man in July, his lawyer said in a statement. The 24-year-old Parisian performer, whose real name is Mohamed Sylla, “contests…

January 17, 2019

Michael Jackson-themed Abloh makes his bid for cool king of Paris fashion

Virgil Abloh bent the knee to Michael Jackson — a fellow African American from the Midwest whose “prodigious talent catapulted him to unparalleled fame” — in his Louis Vuitton show Thursday at Paris men’s fashion week. The designer — the…

January 17, 2019

France will stay ‘militarily engaged’ in Mideast in 2019: Macron

France will remain “militarily engaged” in the Middle East through 2019 despite the announced US withdrawal from the coalition fighting Islamic State jihadists in Syria, President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday. “The retreat from Syria announced by our American friend cannot…

January 17, 2019

Get your act together: Key anti-Brexit campaigner tells MPs

Gina Miller may be one of Britain’s most prominent anti-Brexit campaigners, but even her enemies agree with her on one point: the woeful inability of British politicians to find a way out of this mess. The businesswoman, who shot to…

January 17, 2019

France activates plan for no-deal Brexit

The French government has activated its plans for handling the effects of a no-deal Brexit, which has become “less and less unlikely”, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said Thursday. Speaking after a ministerial meeting called to discuss the British parliament’s rejection…

January 17, 2019

Ex-Macron bodyguard in custody over use of diplomatic passports

A 27-year-old former bodyguard to French President Emmanuel Macron was taken into police custody Thursday over his continued use of diplomatic passports after he was fired for roughing up protesters, prosecutors said. Alexandre Benalla was a security official and a…

January 17, 2019