France becomes the only country to explicitly guarantee abortion as a constitutional right
French lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a bill to enshrine abortion rights in Franceโs constitution, making it the only country to explicitly guarantee a womanโs right to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy.
France's 2 key farmers unions suspend protests after the government offers new measures
Franceโs two major farmers unions have said they'll lift country-wide blockades, after the prime minister introduced new measures aimed at protecting their livelihoods that they described as โtangible progress.โ.
France's government announces new measures to calm farmers' protests, as barricades squeeze Paris
Franceโs newly appointed prime minister has announced controls on foreign food products in order to guarantee โfair competition,โ seeking to calm the anger of protesting farmers camped out around Paris.
Protesting farmers heap pressure on new French prime minister ahead of hotly anticipated measures
Protesting farmers have shut down stretches of major French highways again, using their tractors to block and slow traffic to press their demands that growing and rearing food should be made easier and more lucrative.
French farmers edge closer to Paris as protests ratchet up pressure on President Macron
Protests by French farmers are snowballing and creeping closer to Paris, ratcheting up pressure for government measures to protect the influential agricultural sector from foreign competition, red tape, rising costs and poverty-levels of pay.
France probes 'revolting' claims of rapacious care homes
Franceโs government is pledging to investigate what it called โabsolutely revoltingโ allegations that a world leader in care for older adults has been putting profit before quality, rationing food and other items for nursing home residents.
France's Macron to talk to Biden amid crisis over submarines
France's government spokesman says President Emmanuel Macron will speak in the coming days with President Joe Biden in their first contact since a major crisis erupted between France and the United States over a submarine deal with Australia.
Was Macron's phone a target for spies? French investigate
France's defense minister wants to learn from her Israeli counterpart what, if anything, Israel knew about the clients of the spyware company NSO who possibly targeted the cellphones of French President Emmanuel Macron and other members of his government.
France to close schools, ban domestic travel as virus surges
French President Emmanuel Macron gives a TV address to the nation on French TV channel TF1 in Paris, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Macron has announced a three-week nationwide school closure and a month-long domestic travel ban in an effort to fight the rapid spread of the virus. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)PARIS โ French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced a three-week nationwide school closure and a month-long domestic travel ban, as the rapid spread of the virus ramped up pressure on hospitals. โWeโre going to close nursery, elementary and high schools for three weeks,โ Macron said, adding that a nationwide 7 p.m.- 6 a.m. curfew will be kept in place. AdA debate is scheduled in parliament Thursday that will address the virus situation and the new measures.
Court rules France failed to respect its climate change goal
FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 file photo smoke rises from a factory as a truck loaded with cars crosses a bridge in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)PARIS โ A Paris court on Wednesday ruled that the French state failed to take sufficient action to fight climate change in a case brought by four nongovernmental organizations. The four organizations are Greenpeace France, Oxfam France, the Nicolas Hulot Foundation and Notre Affaire a Tous (Our Shared Responsibility). In its ruling, the administrative court recognized ecological โdeficienciesโ linked to climate change and held the French state responsible for failing to fully meet its goals in reducing greenhouse gases. AdโIt's perfectly fair to say that our country has been lagging behind these past years in the fight against climate change,โ he responded to a question.
The Latest: S Korea tightens pandemic rules over virus surge
Among those getting help are hard-hit businesses, schools, health care providers and renters facing eviction. ___Follow APโs coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic, https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-vaccine and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak___HEREโS WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:OLYMPIA, Wash. โ Washington state Gov. ___DENVER โ Coloradoโs legislature will go into recess soon after convening in January as lawmakers wait for COVID-19 cases to subside. About 7,000 Kentucky residents, the vast majority of them health care workers in hospitals, have been vaccinated since. ___CHARLESTON, W.Va. โ West Virginia set another weekly record for positive coronavirus cases and deaths as it awaits an influx of vaccines from Moderna.
French shop owners pressure Macron to lighten virus lockdown
A student of the Emile Dubois high school takes part to a COVID-19 antigen test in Paris, Monday Nov. 23, 2020. Experts said they are less accurate than the standard PCR test, which detects even the tiniest genetic trace of the virus. Many governments including in France have started deploying them as a precursor to PCR tests. President Emmanuel Macron is expected to lay out new rules Tuesday in Franceโs virus strategy, after he imposed nationwide restrictions last month as virus infections, hospitalizations and deaths surged around Europe. The situation remains tense, however, with hundreds of virus-related deaths per day.
Macron says beheaded teacher was victim of stupidity, hate
French anti-terrorist state prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard holds a press conference Wednesday Oct.21, 2020 in Paris. At a national memorial at the Sorbonne University in central Paris, Macron praised history teacher Samuel Paty as the โface of the Republicโ who โbelieved in knowledge.โPaty, 47, was murdered on Friday by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had become radicalized. Anzorov claimed responsibility in a text accompanied by a photograph of the victim found on his phone. Government spokesperson Gabriel Attal said it was โimplicated, linked to Fridayโs attackโ and it was used to promote anti-republican hate speech. Authorities say it has long had an imam following the Salafist path, a rigorous interpretation of the Muslim holy book.