Tag: France

PARIS — “I was 9. … It was my father. He raped me until I was 17.” The French government pledged on Thursday to toughen laws on the rape of ...

If the new bill is adopted, any sexual relations with a child under the age of 13 – whether considered consensual or not – will be criminalised, and punishable by up ...

France‘s intellectual elite was rocked this month by a claim that political commentator Olivier Duhamel sexually abused his stepson, prompting social media users to speak out under the hashtag #MeTooInceste. ...

Germany has extended and tightened its national lockdown despite slowly declining case numbers and the Netherlands and Denmark are expected to follow suit as concern mounts about new, more contagious ...

A French computer programmer sent about $522,000 in bitcoin to far-right American activists before he died by suicide last month, according to reports. Laurent Bachelier — a Paris-based developer who ...

Large numbers of Irish trucks have begun transporting goods via ferries to France in recent weeks to avoid delays in the more traditional route to continental Europe via Britain, which withdrew from ...

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran urged the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog to avoid publishing “unnecessary” details on Tehran’s nuclear program, state TV reported Sunday, a day after Germany, France and Britain ...

Thousands marched in Paris and cities across France, many of them angry about what they say was the “disproportionate” response by police when they broke up an illegal New Year’s ...

Beyer is at the centre of a scandal that convulsed the sport in France last year after a Abitbol, a former world championships medallist, first made accusations against him in ...

France’s cinemas and other cultural venues are to remain closed until at least the end of January, French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced during a press conference this evening local ...