Are Russians starting to feel at ease in Europe again? Many signs suggest they are. A video has surfaced online showing young ...

A Franco-Algerian influencer, arrested as part of an investigation into online hate videos, appeared before French ...

The 13-year Haitian Revolution, led by general Toussaint L’Ouverture, paved the way for Haiti to be the first sovereign state in the Caribbean, the first Black republic in the Western Hemisphere and ...

Plombir's name comes from the French plombières (or glace plombières), and while the original recipe was French, today, ...

A Braille U.S. flag donated by the Blinded Veterans of America will be dedicated at a ceremony from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 4 ...

American negotiators were prepared to offer US$10 million to France for the port of New Orleans and the Floridas (east and west). Instead, Napoleon Bonaparte offered the entire Louisiana Territory ...

For centuries it was “the Lock and Key of England”, the garrison town that guarded the realm against Julius Caesar, William the Conqueror and Napoleon. During the Second World War, it was rechristened ...

A group of agitators waving Palestinian flags stormed the court during a basketball game between Israel’s Hapoel Holon and France’s Nanterre 92, sparking chaos in the stands. The bedlam came ...

France raised a flag on Tuesday over its embassy in Damascus, Syria, after it had been closed for 12 years during the country’s civil war, the foreign ministry said. France sent a team of diplomats to ...

Senior judge was found to have committed misconduct Wrote essay calling justice’s flag-flying ‘improper’ A federal judge committed judicial misconduct in criticizing Justice Samuel Alito’s flying of ...

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