BERLIN—Disagreements over intellectual property rights mean Germany, France and Spain have yet to agree the next steps for a joint fighter jet project, the defense ministry in Berlin said on Saturday after a deadline to find a solution ran out. The defense ministers of Germany and France had previously set an end-April deadline to broker…
French Authorities Detain 5 Amid Terrorism Investigation of Deadly Police Station Attack
PARIS—French authorities detained a fifth person Sunday in a terrorism investigation seeking to identify potential accomplices and motives after a police official was fatally stabbed at a police station outside Paris. French police killed the 37-year-old Tunisian attacker shortly after he stabbed the unarmed administrative employee on Friday at the entrance of her police station…
4 Held as French Investigate Suspected Islamic Terrorist Attack Killing Policewoman Inside Station
RAMBOUILLET, France—French authorities detained a fourth person Saturday as anti-terrorism investigators questioned three others after a policewoman was fatally stabbed by man shouting “Allahu akbar!” while she was on duty inside a police station outside Paris. French police killed the Tunisian suspect in the Friday slaying of an unarmed administrative employee at the entrance of her…
French leaders condemn terrorist attack after policewoman stabbed to death
PARIS—The killing of a female police employee in a Paris commuter town on Friday was an attack on the French Republic, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Saturday. The attacker, a French resident of Tunisian origin, stabbed the police administrative worker, a mother of two, at a police station in Rambouillet, just south of Paris….
France Decides That Sex With Child Under 15 Is Automatically Rape
PARIS—The French parliament on Thursday adopted legislation that characterizes sex with a child under the age of 15 as rape and punishable by up to 20 years in jail, bringing its penal code closer in line with many other Western nations. Sex between an adult and a child younger than 15 was already illegal but…
Chinese Leader Xi to Attend Climate Change Summit Video Conference With France, Germany: State Media
April 15, 2021
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping will attend a climate change leaders summit video conference on April 16 with France and Germany, said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, according to a report by state media Xinhua news agency. Xi will attend at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron, according to the report. Meanwhile, U.S. climate…
France Suspends All Flights to and From Brazil Due to COVID Variant
PARIS—France will suspend all flights to and from Brazil in a bid to prevent the spread of a variant of COVID-19 that was first detected in the South-American country, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said. “We take note that the situation is getting worse and we have decided to suspend all flights between France and…
Reflecting the Divine: Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres, France
The sun’s rays entering the nearly 27,000 square feet of stained glass windows of Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral create thousands of colored shards that bathe the interior in ethereal beauty. But beyond this earthly splendor, every one of the more than 175 glorious stained glass windows inspire and encourage worshipers to venerate the Virgin Mary and look…
5 Women Arrested in Southern France Over Suspected Attack Plan
French anti-terrorism prosecutors have arrested five women in the southern city of Beziers and launched a preliminary investigation in connection with a possible Islamist attack plot. A police official in the Herault region confirmed the overnight arrests in the city of Beziers, and said Sunday that the DGSI domestic intelligence service and national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s…
French Government Defends Fresh Measures Against Virus Surge
PARIS—France’s prime minister on April 1 defended new nationwide measures to combat a resurgent coronavirus in France that include closing schools for at least three weeks and putting in place a month-long domestic travel ban, saying the government has acted “consistently and pragmatically.” The National Assembly, France’s lower house, voted to approve the new measures…
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