French President Francois Hollande French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill legalizing gay marriages and child adoption by same-sex couples, making France the 14th country to legalize same-sex marriages. Hollande signed the bill on Saturday, a day after the Constitutional Council approved the bill through a ruling, rejecting a challenge by the right-wing opposition. “I will ensure... 

The novel coronavirus, dubbed nCoV-EMC, is similar to the one that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which broke out in Hong Kong about a decade ago. France has reported its second case of infection with a deadly new SARS-like virus as investigation to identify other potential cases continues. The patient contracted the virus after sharing a hospital ward with the first patient infected... 

Our wonderful economic model, you know, the one with endemic unemployment, ever-rising prices, frozen salaries, homelessness, worsening public services and increasing taxation, has failed the next generation (or three) miserably. The ILO’s latest report on employment reads like a social terrorist manual. And these are the policies blindly followed by the drivers of the western economy, the FUKUS... 

French President Francois Hollande French President Francois Hollande has demanded that nationwide elections be held in July in the former colony of Mali, where a French-led war is raging. “These elections must take place throughout the Malian territory, I insist throughout the Malian territory. No fraction of Mali must be deprived of the possibility of organizing the election,” Hollande said on... 

French soldiers take up position on a street in Gao, Mali on April 13, 2013. France’s defense minister has reaffirmed that the country will keep 1,000 troops in Mali to fight armed groups even after the arrival of more than 12,000 UN peacekeepers later this year. A day after the UN Security Council authorized the deployment of the peacekeeping force, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian... 

An office of the French state-run employment agency, Pole Emploi, in the northern Paris suburb of Pantin. The French Labor Ministry says the number of unemployed people in France increased by 36,900 in March, reaching 3.224 million for the first time since 1997. The French ministry said on Thursday that the number of registered jobseekers in the eurozone’s second-largest economy surged by 1.2... 

Police clash with protesters demonstrating against a bill that legalizes same-sex marriages, Paris, France, March 24, 2013. French police have clashed with thousands of demonstrators in the capital, Paris, protesting against the approval of a bill that legalizes gay marriages and adoptions for same-sex couples by the country’s parliament. Tuesday night, police fired tear gas at the angry protesters... 

French people protest against gay marriage ahead of parliament vote in Paris on April 23, 2013. French parliament has adopted a bill legalizing gay marriages and adoptions for same-sex couples, despite massive opposition protests. The lower house National Assembly, where President Francois Hollande’s Socialists have an absolute majority, approved the bill on Tuesday with 331 votes against 225. Before... 

Thousands of demonstrators take to the streets in Paris to protest a planned legalization of same-sex marriage on January 13, 2013. Thousands of the French have staged a demonstration in the capital, Paris, in a last-ditch effort to block a controversial bill on gay marriage. Opponents of gay marriage took to the streets in Paris on Sunday, carrying French flags and pink and blue banners which represented... 

An Israeli Heron TP reconnaissance drone, also known as the IAI Eitan A recent report says Germany is engaged in talks with the Israeli regime to buy assassination drones that are apparently more cutting-edge and technologically advanced than their US-made Predator rivals. The German defense ministry proposed the purchase several months ago. German officials have already held two meetings with Israeli... 

France has withdrawn its first batch of 100 troops out of the 4,000 deployed in Mali as it prepares to hand over operations to a UN peacekeeping force, with 1,000 French troops to remain on the ground by the end of the year. However, fears are mounting that Mali will become a drawn-out war, spilling into other regions and fueling terrorism. France justified its January intervention into Mali as a... 

Battered and bruised picture prompts questions about rise of extremism in western cities. A photo of a bruised and beaten gay man who claims he received his injuries while walking through a Muslim suburb of Paris arm in arm with his boyfriend has provoked shock and fresh concerns about the rise of ethnic extremism in western cities. “A man in Paris, France was reportedly beaten for walking with... 

A general view of the military base of Pierre sur Haute, located in the Monts du Forez. The company behind the world’s largest online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, claims a French intelligence agency summoned one of its volunteers, forcing him to delete content after the website turned down their request to remove ‘classified’ information. French Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (Direction... 

European people are realizing that the EU is an empire that destroys their freedom and doesn’t protect them from economic, social or migratory difficulties, the leader of France’s National Front party Marine Le Pen told RT. Le Pen came third in the 2012 French presidential election with 18% of the vote, higher than expected. She is currently an MEP and believes it’s the best way to fight... 

The financial scandal of a former French minister has dealt a blow to the popularity of President Francois Hollande sending his approval rating to its lowest level since coming to power. According to a poll conducted by the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, only 27 percent of participants are satisfied with Hollande, while 68 percent have expressed dissatisfaction. French Budget Minister Jerome...