PARIS: United States Joint Chiefs chairman General Mark Milley will receive France’s highest medal of honour on Friday for his role in coordinating support for Ukraine and for his more than 40-year military career spent in defense of democracy, French President Emmanuel Macron‘s office said.Milley, who is travelling in France to attend ceremonies at Normandy… Read More »
U.S. Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley will receive France’s highest medal of honor Friday for his role in coordinating support for Ukraine and for his more than 40-year military career spent in defense of democracy, French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said. Milley, who is traveling in France to attend ceremonies at Normandy to mark… Read More »
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French police surrounded and tear-gassed protesters with the country’s answer to Just Stop Oil as they attempted to interrupt a meeting of oil bosses this morning. Officers with Paris Police Prefecture set up a cordon around major oil firm TotalEnergies in the French capital this morning as shareholders faced down activists en route to a… Read More »
Seoul-based sales agent Finecut has sold Hong Sangsoo’s In Our Day to France’s Capricci, Spain’s L’Atalante Cinema and Ama Films for Greece. The film, which premieres in Directors Fortnight on May 25, follow a woman in her 40s, temporarily living at the home of a friend, and a man in his 70s living alone, who… Read More »
French Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak has said her ministry is looking at ways to resolve a funding crisis for France’s Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival after its regional support was cut out of the blue earlier this month. “We will have to do something because it’s impossible to fragilize this festival. We’re in discussion… Read More »
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Thursday abruptly canceled a trip to Paris, calling “unacceptable” remarks by the French interior minister criticizing the Italian premier’s migration policy. Italy had demanded clarification of the remarks by French minister Gerald Darmanin to RMC radio blaming Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni for increasing numbers of migrants, notably minors, at… Read More »
In the UK, when climate activists want to block a road, they sit down on it. When their fellow activists in France want to do the same, they build a wall across one side, and set the other side on fire. As Extinction Rebellion drew tens of thousands to their peaceful “Big One” protests in… Read More »
In Paris, radical protesters threw projectiles at police and broke windows of businesses Paris: Protesters clashed with security forces across France on Monday as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets for Labour Day to vent their anger against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform.Unions had been hoping for a vast turnout nationwide to… Read More »