France

French authorities say a suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee unknown to intelligence services who posted a grisly claim of responsibility on social media minutes after the attack

For the second time in three weeks, terror struck France, this time with the gruesome beheading of a teacher in a street in a Paris suburb

Coronavirus cases around the world have climbed to all-time highs of more than 330,000 per day as the scourge comes storming back across Europe and spreads with renewed speed in the U.S. Many places are being forced to reimpose tough restrictions they had eased just a few months ago

Rescuers in France and Italy were searching for victims and providing residents emergency assistance after devastating floods hit a mountainous region on both sides of the border, killing at least four people.

French authorities say a terrorism investigation has been opened into a knife attack that wounded two people outside the former Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo

France and Spain are now seeing more new cases every day than they did when the virus originally peaked in the spring. Israel on Friday entered a second nationwide lockdown, shuttering restaurants, hotels, gyms and more, amid soaring new cases and as the Jewish High Holiday season begins. While epidemiologists expected autumn to be worse, the rapid resurgence comes ahead...

Thirteen men and a woman are on trial for the 2015 attacks against the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in Paris that marked the beginning of a wave of violence by the Islamic State group in Europe

The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has declared a “state of environmental emergency” after a Japanese-owned ship that ran aground offshore days ago began spilling tons of fuel

The French ministry of sports says more than 20 coaches working with the French ice skating federation or its clubs have been identified following an investigation into accusations of sexual assault, harassment or violence

Antagonisms between the U.S. and China are rattling governments around the world, prompting a German official to warn of “Cold War 2.0” and Kenya’s president to appeal for unity to fight the coronavirus pandemic

Two children jumped from a window into the arms of residents to escape a fire in Grenoble, France.

French officials have launched an arson inquiry after a fire broke out in a Gothic cathedral in the western French city of Nantes

The wife of a French bus driver savagely beaten after he asked passengers to wear face masks aboard his vehicle has condemned his “barbaric” death.

France’s new prime minister says he feels ready to face the key challenge of reviving France’s economy from the coronavirus pandemic and a months-long nationwide lockdown

When black men died at the hands of U.S. police in recent years, the news made international headlines. The name of George Floyd has reached the world’s streets.

As restaurants around the world look for ways to safely reopen, some restaurants in France are experimenting with plastic domes to help keep restaurant workers and diners healthy.

A team at a veterinary school in France is training dogs to identify the scent of people infected with COVID-19. Researchers hope this could provide an effective and cost-effective mitigation tactic in the near future.

A top world health official is warning that countries are essentially driving blind in reopening economies without setting up strong contact tracing to beat back flareups of the coronavirus

A Toyota factory in France has pivoted production efforts and is now making 6,000 washable masks a day.

As France moves toward ending its nearly two-month lockdown, vending machines have been appearing selling face masks and other protective equipment amid the coronavirus pandemic.