Every year in France as elsewhere, people excitedly prepare well in advance for the Christmas and New Year’s festivities. As early as November, the avenues get all… Read More »From foie gras to bûche de Noël: The essentials of a French holiday feast
A French man suspected of killing three Kurdish people in central Paris in an attack prosecutors are treating as racially motivated was transferred to a… Read More »Suspect in deadly attack on Paris Kurds transferred to psychiatric unit
Pope Francis on Saturday led the world’s Catholics into Christmas, saying in an apparent reference to the war in Ukraine and other conflicts that the level of… Read More »Pope Francis condemns greed, hunger for power in Christmas Eve homily
Ukrainians will create their own miracle this Christmas by showing they remain unbowed despite Russian attacks that have plunged millions into darkness, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy… Read More »Live: Zelensky delivers defiant Christmas message after deadly Russian strikes
A fearsome winter storm that pummelled the United States with blinding snow and powerful Arctic winds left about a million customers without power Saturday as… Read More »Fearsome blizzard leaves US in deep freeze just before Christmas
Over the past few days, the emergency rooms of Shanghai hospitals have been overwhelmed as coronavirus cases soar after the Chinese Communist Party reversed its restrictive “zero-Covid”… Read More »‘Overwhelmed’: China’s stretched health system grapples with soaring Covid cases
With a giant evergreen tree, colourful balloons in the streets and selfies in the Church of the Nativity, Christmas tourism has returned to Bethlehem after… Read More »Christmas celebrations come back to Bethlehem after two years of Covid restrictions
Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO) to stop female employees from coming to work, according to an economy… Read More »Taliban orders all NGOs in Afghanistan to forbid female employees from working
Renewed clashes broke out in Paris on Saturday between police and members of the Kurdish community angry at the killing on Friday of three members… Read More »Clashes with police at protests over deaths of Kurds in ‘racist’ attack
Paris prosecutors investigating a deadly shooting at a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris said Saturday they were examining a possible racist motive for the attack… Read More »Prosecutors investigating racism as a motive in deadly attack on Paris Kurds
