French lawmakers approved a bill on Thursday to completely remove the word “race” from the country’s law books, but the initiative has been blasted as naïve and useless by right-wing opponents.
France's Stade Français travel to Ireland Friday to face off against Leinster for the Amlin Challenge Cup final. FRANCE 24's Marc Owen takes a closer look at the two teams' star players.
More than 2,000 Nigerian troops have begun an offensive in Borno state to regain territory seized by Boko Haram Islamists, army sources said Thursday. President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Borno and two other states on Tuesday.
Speaking at a news conference marking his first year in office, French President François Hollande called for an "economic government" for the eurozone that would have a president, its own budget and a coordinated tax system.
An interview by two FRANCE24 journalists with a Polish priest who is being investigated for alleged child abuse ended in a violent confrontation on Sunday. The video has sparked outrage in deeply Catholic Poland.
In another grisly video from Syria, fighters claiming to belong to the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front executed 11 Syrian soldiers. The video was published online Thursday, just days after a video of a rebel mutilating a dead body sparked outrage.
US President Barack Obama demanded the resignation of the director of the US tax office on Wednesday as part of an effort to quell controversy over the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups.
France’s former interior minister Claude Guéant has found himself mired in scandal after becoming the focus of an investigation into allegations that Nicolas Sarkozy received illegal campaign financing during his 2007 run for the presidency.
Ariel Castro, the Ohio man accused of holding three young women captive for some 10 years in a house in Cleveland, will plead not guilty to charges of rape and kidnapping, one of his lawyers said on Wednesday.
Queens Park Rangers' French striker Loïc Rémy, 26, has been arrested on suspicion of rape along with two other men, media reports said Wednesday. A 34-year-old woman told police the three men raped her in west London on May 6.
