Washington: US President Donald Trump said on Monday that French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s conviction and resulting prohibition from running in the 2027 presidential election was a “very big deal.” A French court on Monday barred Le Pen from running in the 2027 presidential election after she was convicted of embezzlement. “That’s a very … Read more
Paris: French star actor Gerard Depardieu, on trial for sexual assault, told the Paris court on Tuesday that he was not in the habit of “groping” women, and called the #MeToo movement a “reign of terror.” “I don’t see why I would go around groping a woman, her buttocks, her breasts,” Depardieu said in his … Read more
The discovery of an unexploded bomb dating back to World War 2 on the tracks outside Paris sparked panic among the French authorities this morning. The railway traffic to and from the city was stopped to assess the security situation, leaving thousands of travellers stranded in Paris and London. This included both local and international … Read more