An understanding to this effect was reached at a meeting between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the One Water Summit in Riyadh, today. Both the leaders reiterated the shared desire of the two sides to remain closely engaged on all regional and global issues of mutual interest. […]
Talks opened in Qatar’s capital amid a wider international diplomatic bid to ease tensions that have spiked since the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. An Israeli delegation attended the Doha talks, which also involved US Central Intelligence Agency director William Burns. US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington […]
The New Popular Front (NFP) was formed last month after President Emmanuel Macron called snap elections, bringing together socialists, greens, communists, and the hard-left into one camp. Veteran presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) led the race after the June 30 first round, with opinion polls predicting that she would lead the biggest […]
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The Talent Passport introduced by the French government in 2017 serves as an enticing opportunity for non-EU nationals with exceptional skills and expertise to contribute to France’s economy and cultural landscape. This program targets individuals who possess remarkable talents in various fields such as research, arts, academia, sports, and entrepreneurship, among others. Eligibility criteria encompass […]
Google was fined 500 million euros, or $593 million; by French antitrust authorities on Tuesday for failing to negotiate a deal in “good faith” with publishers to carry news on its platform; a victory for media companies that have been fighting to make up for a drop in advertising revenue that they attribute to the […]
A man slapped President Emmanuel Macron in the face on Tuesday during a walkabout in southern France. Macron later said he had not feared for his safety, and that nothing would stop him from carrying on with his job. In a video circulating on social media, Macron reached out his hand to greet a man […]
A French court on Monday sentenced former President Nicolas Sarkozy to three years in prison; for corruption and influence-peddling but suspended two years of the sentence. President from 2007 to 2012, he was found guilty of trying to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014; about an ongoing investigation into his campaign finances. […]
The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday that French actor Gerard Depardieu was charged last December with rape and sexual assault after authorities revived a 2018 investigation that was initially dropped. The office told the Associated Press news agency that the French actor was not detained when he was handed the preliminary charges on December […]
Alphabet Inc’s Google has agreed to pay $76m over three years to a group of French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters news agency show, a deal one news publishers’ lobby deemed unfair. The two documents, seen by Reuters and disclosed publicly for the first time; include […]
