PARIS (AA) – Supporters of Palestine gathered at the Place de la Republique in Paris to protest against Israel’s war on Gaza. Demonstrators demanded an end to the genocide and insisted that the Israeli military halt its assaults on Gaza as well as Lebanon. The protest, organized by supporters of Palestine and Lebanon, drew a [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – France will host an international conference on October 24 in Paris to address Lebanon’s ongoing political and humanitarian crises, the French Foreign Ministry has said. The event, led by President Emmanuel Macron, will gather Lebanon’s partner states, the UN, the EU, and multiple other “international, regional ...
Algiers, Algeria – AFP The fraught relations between France and its former colony Algeria had eased a little in recent years, but a new rift over Paris backing Morocco’s autonomy plan for disputed Western Sahara has sent rapprochement efforts into a tailspin. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who is seeking a second term in ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan has slammed France for signing a contract to sell CAESAR self-propelled howitzers to Armenia. “The fact that France, despite the warnings of the Azerbaijani side, has supplied Armenia with lethal and assault artillery installations and other types of weapons is further evidence of France’s provocative activitie...
ANKARA (AA) – India and France have expressed concern about the massive loss of civilian lives in the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, urging Tel Aviv to respect international humanitarian law and create conditions, including a humanitarian cease-fire, for aid to flow to the enclave. French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Mini...
ANKARA (AA) – France’s President Emmanuel Macron has urged Israel to avoid escalation, “particularly in Lebanon,” following the Israeli drone strike in Beirut which killed a top Hamas figure. According to a statement by Elysee Palace, Macron held a phone call with Benny Gantz, former Israeli defense minister and war cabinet m...
PARIS (AA) – While most of Paris is busy with preparations to celebrate New Year’s Eve, locals in the suburbs of the French capital came together with members of the Palestinian diaspora in Europe in solidarity with each other and people in the Gaza Strip, devastated over the past 12 weeks by relentless Israeli attacks. […]
ANKARA (AA) – A French publisher has said many people are trying to muzzle voices critical of Israel in France and announced the re-release of the book “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.” La Fabrique told the media that the book by renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, which discusses the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people [&he...
GENEVA (AA) – French opposition figure Mathilde Panot has said President Emmanuel Macron’s call to stop killings in Gaza came “10,000 deaths later.” This came a day after French President Emmanuel Macron urged Israel to stop killing babies and women in Gaza. “These babies, these ladies, these old people are bombed...
ATHENS (AA) – Under Niger’s new military administration, the French ambassador has effectively been “taken hostage,” French President Emmanuel Macron, has claimed. “In Niger, as I speak to you, we have an ambassador and diplomatic members who are literally taken hostage at the French Embassy,” Emmanuel Macron said during a visit to the northwe...