ANKARA (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that Israeli athletes are “welcome” to the Paris Olympics 2024, and added that Russian athletes’ participation in the international sporting event is up to the Olympic Committee. In a live-streamed interview with France 2 ahead of the games, Macron claimed that Is...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces struck Gaza on Friday as truce efforts failed to make progress and tensions surged on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. Witnesses reported strikes on the southern city of Rafah and central areas of the Gaza Strip. At Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah, men...
Paris, France – AFP France’s parliament on Tuesday suspended a left-wing lawmaker for two weeks after he held up a Palestinian flag during a heated debate over whether France should recognise Palestinian statehood, as President Emmanuel Macron said such a step should not be based on “emotion”. Sebastien Delogu, a member...
Paris, France — AFP About 10,000 people took part in a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in Paris against Israel’s bombing of the refugee town of Rafah. The demonstrators gathered a few hundred metres from the embassy in the centre of the French capital and chanted “We are all Gaza children”, “Free Gaza”...
ANKARA (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday condemned the closure of campus entrances at top universities by students protesting against Israeli attacks on Gaza. In an interview with La Tribune Dimanche and La Provence dailies, Macron condemned “with the utmost firmness” the blockades at universities. He said he was in favor...
Paris, France – AFP France’s prestigious Sciences Po university said it would close its main Paris site on Friday due to a fresh occupation of buildings by dozens of students advocating freedom of Palestine. In a message sent to staff on Thursday evening, its management said the buildings in central Paris “will remain closed ...
A 14-year-old girl, identified as Samara, is in coma following an attack by three teenagers outside her school in Montpellier, France. The perpetrators, aged 14 and 15, including a fellow female student of the victim’s school, have been detained on suspicion of attempted murder. The attack comes amid heightened tensions in French school...
Paris, France – AFP President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that recognising a Palestinian state was “not a taboo for France” in his first such comments since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza. “The recognition of a Palestinian state is not a taboo for France,” he said at a joint press conference in Paris [...
ANKARA (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that the idea of fighting against terrorism should not be about “razing the Gaza Strip to the ground.” Macron claimed that Paris’ position had been the same since the start of the conflict in the Middle East, despite what critics have said. “We cannot a...
ANKARA (AA) – France’s president Emmanuel Macron encouraged G7 countries on Friday to stop using coal by 2030. He enumerated several key points to improve the fight against climate change during an address to the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai. The “primary priority” for the most developed countries i...
