French Police Question Boy, 8, Over Remarks on Paris Terror Attacks
PARIS — Police officials in the southern French city of Nice questioned an 8-year-old boy who is believed to have made comments in school defending the gunmen who killed 17…
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Taco Bell: Emoji unfairly biased towards hamburger and pizza lovers
Taco Bell claims that its customers “have been asking for a taco emoji for years.” Current food and drink emojis include beer, wine, coffee, ice cream, a donut, a hamburger,…
What post-9/11 U.S. can teach France
“Oh please, mind your language, show some restraint: it was not a French September 11!” wrote Olivier Roy last week, in an otherwise nuanced article on the French Muslims and…
Jerome Jarre: the Making of a Vine Celebrity
Mention “that French Guy” to typical teenagers today, and they will know exactly which French guy you are talking about. Jerome Jarre, they will tell you, is a 24-year-old from…
5 suspected jihadi cell members arrested in France
Speaking at a news conference in Paris, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said “a new blow has been dealt to terrorism” with the arrests in the Herault region. Police units…
Charlie Hebdo Raises The Question: Is Hate Speech Protected In France?
When cartoonists at a French publication that had poked fun at the Prophet Muhammad were shot dead, millions around the world felt it as an attack on freedom of speech….
French Police Arrest 5 in Terrorism Raid
PARIS — The French counterterrorism police on Tuesday raided the southern town of Lunel and arrested five people in an operation aimed at rooting out a suspected jihadist network, a…
France, Birthplace of Cinema, Is Losing Film Production to Its Neighbors
LUXEMBOURG — “Can you cover for me? I trust you,” whispers Marie-France, a scheming receptionist played by Nathalie Baye, to a co-worker in a small, brightly lit office. As she…
Hilary Duff And Her Pup Have A Very Adorable Day
Hilary Duff carries around Beau, her French Bulldog, during a walk around her neighborhood on Jan. 21. Read the whole story
Stolen French Laundry Wine Recovered
By Alex Dobuzinskis Jan 23 (Reuters) – About 80 bottles of premium wine reported to be worth up to $300,000 that were stolen from the Michelin-starred French Laundry restaurant in…
Heartburn Hell: Magnetic Bead Implant Brings Dramatic Relief
a magnetic string of beads implanted in her esophagus — that gave her such dramatic relief, she was able to devour macaroni and cheese and French fries that same day….
Paris Attacks Lead French to Reinforce Secular Values in Schools
PARIS — Officials in France announced new measures on Thursday aimed at reinforcing secular values at French schools, after the terrorist attacks in Paris exposed serious cultural rifts with children…
2015 Paris Terror Attacks Fast Facts
The Charlie in the title references Charlie Brown from the Peanuts cartoon. Hebdo is short for hebdomadaire, meaning weekly, in French. The magazine ceased publication in the 1980s due to…
Europeans use lawsuits, laughter to knock down ‘no go’ claims
These are places to go, locals saynot “no-go zones,” as described by a Fox News commentator as well as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. The last few weeks have seen characterizations…
Charlie Hebdo Magazines Sell Out In A Flash In New York City
Charlie Hebdo quickly sold out at the first three New York City stores that carried the French weekly. Albertine, an Upper East Side French/English bookstore run in conjunction with the…
France gives ‘supermarket hero’ Lassana Bathily citizenship
The French government decided to award citizenship to the Malian-born 24-year-old supermarket employee after he risked his own life to hide customers from hostage-taker Amedy Coulibaly earlier this month. Four…
Experts say Paris lawsuit against Fox News is going nowhere
Lawsuits for slander or libel need to identify a particular individual or entity, Hermes said. Little recourse in French courts Speech and media laws are different in France, but the…
10 killed, churches torched in protests over Charlie Hebdo
While there have also been largely peaceful protests, authorities from Africa to the Middle East are seeing clashes in the streetsand seeking ways to tamp down the uproar among Muslims…
When Women Become Terrorists
SINCE the terror attacks in Paris two weeks ago, the French police have been on the hunt for Hayat Boumeddiene, the partner of Amedy Coulibaly, one of the slain gunmen….
Lassana Bathily, Muslim Hero At Kosher Market Siege, Gets French Citizenship
French authorities on Tuesday honored a Mali-born employee who saved lives at the kosher supermarket attacked by terrorists as a hero and granted him French citizenship. – Bathily has lived…
French Premier Manuel Valls Says Country’s ‘Apartheid’ Needs Addressing
France’s prime minister says the country needs to use the attacks carried out by three French Islamic extremists as a reason to look inward at “a territorial, social, and ethnic…
France’s President Hollande Gets Poll Rebound After Paris Attacks
By Mark John PARIS, Jan 19 (Reuters) – President Francois Hollande saw a spectacular revival in his dismal popularity ratings on Monday as two major surveys showed French voters applauding…
Where is Charlie Hebdo? My pursuit of the first copies in America
But places like Albertine and Book Culture, another Manhattan shop, went a different route. The stores made arrangements with Emmanuel Saint-Martin, the owner of a website catering to French ex-pats…
Charlie Hebdo now printing 7 million copies
The magazine’s French distributor, MLP, has been tryingmostly unsuccessfullyto keep pace with demand. Roughly one million copies each were distributed on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Technical problems limited the number…
Police: Gunman enters post office in Colombes, France
The incident began around 12:45 p.m. (6:45 a.m. ET). The gunman might be mentally unstable, according to police in Colombes, a community about 10 kilometers northwest of the French capital….
Nicolas Sarkozy Fast Facts
Birth place: Paris, France Birth name: Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa Father: Pal Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa Mother: Andree (Mallah) Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa – March 21, 2013 – Is placed…
What will France do about AQAP link?
That exceptional situation was a terrorist rampage that was years in the works, an AQAP leader said in a video, claiming U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was the mastermind. Al-Awlaki was…
Clint Eastwood Fast Facts
Birth place: San Francisco, California Birth name: Clinton Eastwood, Jr. Father: Clinton Eastwood, Sr., a corporate executive Mother: Margaret Ruth (Runner) Wood Eastwood, a homemaker Marriages: Dina Ruiz (March 31,…
How to prevent another Paris? Experts debate issues that divide, unite
Cindy Storer: I think it’s too soon to evaluate the French and broader European response to the attacks. But I’d like to address what I hope will come of this….
Kerry to meet with Hollande, emphasize U.S. support
The meeting follows an acknowledgment by the White House that it should have sent a higher profile representative to an anti-terrorism march in Paris over the weekend, in order to…