France News

January 19, 2019

Macron’s rebound strategy tested as ‘yellow vests’ hold 10th protest

France’s “yellow vests” took to the streets Saturday for a 10th straight weekend of anti-government protests, despite attempts by President Emmanuel Macron to channel their anger into a series of town hall debates. The president, who was caught off guard…

January 19, 2019

Pope Francis winds up special Lefebvre commission

Pope Francis has wound up a commission which engaged in dialogue with a traditionalist Catholic fraternity founded by French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, as relations with the splinter group stabilise. Francis issued Thursday an apostolic letter, distributed on Saturday, that officially…

January 19, 2019

Macron’s debate put to test as ‘yellow vests’ stage 10th protest

France’s “yellow vests” took to the streets on Saturday for a 10th straight weekend of anti-government protests, despite attempts by President Emmanuel Macron to channel their anger into a series of town hall debates. In Paris, several thousand people, many…

January 19, 2019

Italy says still hunting 30 ‘terrorists’ abroad

Italian authorities are still hunting 30 “terrorists” on the run abroad, the interior ministry said Saturday, days after far-left activist Cesare Battisti was jailed ending 37 years as a fugitive. “Thirty terrorists on the run, 27 from the left, three…

January 19, 2019

Macron’s debate put to test as ‘yellow vests’ stage tenth protest

France’s “yellow vests” took to the streets on Saturday for a 10th straight weekend of anti-government protests, defying attempts by President Emmanuel Macron to channel their anger into a series of town hall debates. A police source said the authorities…

January 18, 2019