New Year’s Eve in France was a tale of two cities: In the rich areas a vast police presence presided over joyous public parties, but in the poor suburbs an appalling 940 cars were set on fire nationwide by Muslim immigrants. Such violent and depressing scenes are what many impoverished French woke up to on January first, as they have for over two decades. Perhaps most shocking is that the nation’s... 

  A stampede during Shanghai’s New Year’s Eve celebrations has killed more than 36 people. For many people around the world, New Year was a time of celebration and joy, but for some it was quite the opposite. Stabbings, mortar shelling, massive fires and a fatal stampede all hit seasonal revels, causing havoc and heartbreak. Stampede ‘over fake money’ kills dozens At least... 

France’s Labor Ministry has announced that the unemployment rate in the country has hit a new high in November. According to official statistics released on Wednesday, 3.488 million people claimed jobless benefits last month, with figures showing an increase of 27,400 people joining job-seekers ranks compared to October. The new numbers for the end of November also indicated a 0.8-percent rise over... 

A driver screamed “Allah is Great” before running down pedestrians in Dijon, France on Sunday. Eleven people were injured in five different attacks, two seriously. “He ran over as many people as he could in a Renault Clio, and many are suffering with very serious head injuries,” police said. A Twitter post, allegedly from ISIS supporters, praised the attack. The tweet displayed a photo of... 

At least ten people were injured, two gravely, as a minivan crashed into a Christmas market in Nantes. The driver attempted to stab himself to death following the crash, a second such incident in the country over the last two days. Reports on the number of injured were conflicting with Le Figaro suggesting there are 17 casualties, while Focusur.fr reports at least 12 were injured and five are in serious... 

Scene in France where driver shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ run over 11 pedestrians. At least 2 people have been seriously injured after a Muslim Jihadist driver shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ has deliberately run into crowds of pedestrians in several separate locations in the French city of Dijon In total, 11 people have been injured in the run-over incidents on Sunday evening, AFP reports. “Nine... 

Reading emails on your skin may sound wacky, but not for the French designers working on a bracelet that projects your smartphone content onto your arm. To turn the surreal Cicret device into reality, the designers are seeking funding. A video explaining how the device works has gone viral, racking up 4,222,427 views on YouTube at the time of this article’s publication. The Cicret website says... 

The shocking revelations of CIA torture techniques give France a reason to exit NATO, National Front party leader Marine Le Pen said on Saturday. The report on the CIA’s former interrogation practices has drawn wide criticism since its release. “If indeed everyone is outraged by the tortures used by the US then, let’s leave NATO,” Le Pen said during an interview with Europe 1 radio channel.... 

A secularism scandal is raging in France, after a mayor in a northwestern town introduced a “pork or nothing” principle at school, even for 27 students who will get no meat substitute. The rule will apply starting from January 1 in the town of Sargé-lès-Le Mans, and may apply to Jewish pupils as well, though there aren’t any in this particular school. Mayor Marcel Mortreau bases his decision... 

Globalization is a barbarity, believes Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front party, adding that now the world is now in hands of multinational corporations and large international finance. “Globalization is a barbarity, it is the country which should limit its abuses and regulate it [globalization],” Le Pen wrote on her Twitter account. The problems of multinational... 

An ominous report prepared by the General Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU) circulating in the Kremlin today states that the emergency meeting held Saturday morning in Moscow between President Putin and French President François Hollande was due to the discovery of France’s General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) of a “la terreur spectaculaire” [English: terror... 

Russia has warned France its failure to act on a bilateral contract to deliver a warship ordered by Moscow poses risk to Paris’ reputation. France has delayed taking the vessel to Russia, citing the situation in Ukraine. Ukraine’s eastern regions have witnessed deadly clashes between pro-Russia protesters and the Ukrainian army since Kiev launched military operations there in mid-April. Kiev and... 

A car moved by the La Berre river after the city of Portel-des-Corbieres, southern France, was flooded following heavy rains on November 30, 2014. In southern France, more than 1,500 people have been forced to evacuate their homes amid the country’s worst flooding in over a decade. According to French officials, between “800 and 1,000 people” were evacuating their homes along the Agly river in... 

Demonstrators hold a banner that reads “No to the austerity, yes to the social Europe” during a rally in Paris on September 30, 2012. Angry people have taken to the streets of French capital Paris in protest to the government’s economic policies, Press TV reports. “Economic policies across Europe are clearly meant to serve high finance and to create tax breaks for businesses. But... 

The Conference of European Rabbis are starting to panic as anti-Semitic sentiment is allegedly sweeping through Europe. European rabbis are now calling for the entire continent to pass laws against what they call “hate speech” against Jews, the Times of Israel reports. That is, they want to ban criticism of Jews throughout the entire continent by placing any such criticism under this Orwellian...