After escape, Afghan director mourns her 'lost country'
PARIS (AP) — As a filmmaker, Shahrbanoo Sadat watched with fascination as Taliban fighters took over her city and terrified crowds animated the streets. But as an Afghan woman, she also watched the scene through another prism and knew: It was time to flee.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
After escape, Afghan director mourns her 'lost country'
PARIS (AP) — As a filmmaker, Shahrbanoo Sadat watched with fascination as Taliban fighters took over her city and terrified crowds animated the streets. But as an Afghan woman, she also watched the scene through another prism and knew: It was time to flee.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
After escape, Afghan director mourns her 'lost country'
PARIS (AP) — As a filmmaker, Shahrbanoo Sadat watched with fascination as Taliban fighters took over her city and terrified crowds animated the streets. But as an Afghan woman, she also watched the scene through another prism and knew: It was time to flee.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
After escape, Afghan director mourns her 'lost country'
PARIS (AP) — As a filmmaker, Shahrbanoo Sadat watched with fascination as Taliban fighters took over her city and terrified crowds animated the streets. But as an Afghan woman, she also watched the scene through another prism and knew: It was time to flee.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Anger as French protesters compare vaccines to Nazi horrors
PARIS (AP) — A French Holocaust survivor has denounced anti-vaccination protesters comparing themselves to Jews who were persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II. French officials and anti-racism groups joined the 94-year-old in expressing indignation.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Anger as French protesters compare vaccines to Nazi horrors
PARIS (AP) — A French Holocaust survivor has denounced anti-vaccination protesters comparing themselves to Jews who were persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II. French officials and anti-racism groups joined the 94-year-old in expressing indignation.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Anger as French protesters compare vaccines to Nazi horrors
PARIS (AP) — A French Holocaust survivor has denounced anti-vaccination protesters comparing themselves to Jews who were persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II. French officials and anti-racism groups joined the 94-year-old in expressing indignation.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Anger as French protesters compare vaccines to Nazi horrors
PARIS (AP) — A French Holocaust survivor has denounced anti-vaccination protesters comparing themselves to Jews who were persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II. French officials and anti-racism groups joined the 94-year-old in expressing indignation.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
France celebrates Bastille Day amid virus fears, tensions
PARIS (AP) — Bastille Day is back, sort of.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
France celebrates Bastille Day amid virus fears, tensions
PARIS (AP) — Bastille Day is back, sort of.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
France's Macron orders all health workers to get vaccinated
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday ordered all French health care workers to get virus vaccine shots by Sept. 15 and urged all of his compatriots to get vaccinated as soon as possible, to fight resurgent infections that are threatening the country’s economic recovery.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
French rush to get vaccinated after president's warning
PARIS (AP) — More than 1 million people in France made vaccine appointments in less than a day, according to figures released Tuesday, after the president cranked up pressure on everyone to get vaccinated to save the summer vacation season and the French economy.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
France celebrates Bastille Day amid virus fears, tensions
PARIS (AP) — Bastille Day is back, sort of.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
France celebrates Bastille Day amid virus fears, tensions
PARIS (AP) — Bastille Day is back, sort of.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
France cautiously celebrates Bastille Day, clouded by virus
PARIS (AP) — Bastille Day is back, sort of.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
France's Macron orders all health workers to get vaccinated
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday ordered all French health care workers to get virus vaccine shots by Sept. 15 and urged all of his compatriots to get vaccinated as soon as possible, to fight resurgent infections that are threatening the country’s economic recovery.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
French rush to get vaccinated after president's warning
PARIS (AP) — More than 1 million people in France made vaccine appointments in less than a day, according to figures released Tuesday, after the president cranked up pressure on everyone to get vaccinated to save the summer vacation season and the French economy.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
French rush to get vaccinated after president's warning
PARIS (AP) — More than 1 million people in France made vaccine appointments in less than a day, according to figures released Tuesday, after the president cranked up pressure on everyone to get vaccinated to save the summer vacation season and the French economy.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
France rushes to get vaccinated after president's warning
PARIS (AP) — More than 1 million people in France made vaccine appointments in less than a day, figures showed on Tuesday, after the president cranked up pressure on everyone to get vaccinated to save summer vacation and the French economy.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
France's Macron orders all health workers to get vaccinated
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday ordered all French health care workers to get virus vaccine shots by Sept. 15 and urged all of his compatriots to get vaccinated as soon as possible, to fight resurgent infections that are threatening the country’s economic recovery.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
France's Macron orders all health workers to get vaccinated
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday ordered all French health care workers to get virus vaccine shots by Sept. 15 and urged all of his compatriots to get vaccinated as soon as possible, to fight resurgent infections that are threatening the country’s economic recovery.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
France to pull more than 2,000 troops from Africa's Sahel
PARIS (AP) — France will withdraw more than 2,000 troops from an anti-extremism force in Africa’s Sahel region by early next year and pivot its military presence to specialized regional forces instead, President Emmanuel Macron said Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
France to pull more than 2,000 troops from Africa's Sahel
PARIS (AP) — France will withdraw more than 2,000 troops from an anti-extremism force in Africa’s Sahel region by early next year and pivot its military presence to specialized regional forces instead, President Emmanuel Macron said Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
France to pull more than 2,000 troops from Africa's Sahel
PARIS (AP) — France will withdraw more than 2,000 troops from an anti-extremism force in Africa’s Sahel region by early next year and pivot its military presence to specialized regional forces instead, President Emmanuel Macron said Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
France to pull more than 2,000 troops from Africa's Sahel
PARIS (AP) — France will withdraw more than 2,000 troops from an anti-extremism force in Africa’s Sahel region by early next year and pivot its military presence to specialized regional forces instead, President Emmanuel Macron said Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Far right falters as conservatives lead French regional vote
PARIS (AP) — Marine Le Pen’s far-right party stumbled, French President Emmanuel Macron's centrists crashed and incumbent conservatives surged ahead in the first round of regional elections Sunday that were dominated by security issues and a record-low turnout.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Far right falters as conservatives lead French regional vote
PARIS (AP) — Marine Le Pen’s far-right party stumbled, French President Emmanuel Macron's centrists crashed and incumbent conservatives surged ahead in the first round of regional elections Sunday that were dominated by security issues and a record-low turnout.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Far right falters as conservatives lead French regional vote
PARIS (AP) — Marine Le Pen’s far-right party stumbled, French President Emmanuel Macron's centrists crashed and incumbent conservatives surged ahead in the first round of regional elections Sunday that were dominated by security issues and a record-low turnout.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Far right falters as conservatives lead French regional vote
PARIS (AP) — Marine Le Pen’s far-right party stumbled, French President Emmanuel Macron's centrists crashed and incumbent conservatives surged ahead in the first round of regional elections Sunday that were dominated by security issues and a record-low turnout.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Pollsters: French conservatives lead 1st round regional vote
PARIS (AP) — France’s traditional conservative party dominated the first round of regional elections Sunday and Marine Le Pen’s far-right party performed less well than expected, according to polling agency projections.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
France elects regional leaders, preps for presidential vote
PARIS (AP) — Marine Le Pen’s far-right party is riding high on her tough-on-security, stop-immigration message as French voters started choosing regional leaders Sunday in an election that many see as a dress rehearsal for next year’s presidential vote.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Frenchman killed after stabbing, shooting 3 police officers
PARIS (AP) — A man with severe schizophrenia who had been on a watch list for Islamic radicalism stabbed a police officer at her station Friday in western France and shot two other officers before police killed him, authorities said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Frenchman killed after stabbing, shooting 3 police officers
PARIS (AP) — A man with severe schizophrenia who had been on a watch list for Islamic radicalism stabbed a police officer at her station Friday in western France and shot two other officers before police killed him, authorities said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Frenchman killed after stabbing, shooting 3 police officers
PARIS (AP) — A man with severe schizophrenia who had been on a watch list for Islamic radicalism stabbed a police officer at her station Friday in western France and shot two other officers before police killed him, authorities said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Frenchman killed after stabbing, shooting 3 police officers
PARIS (AP) — A man with severe schizophrenia who had been on a watch list for Islamic radicalism stabbed a police officer at her station Friday in western France and shot two other officers before police killed him, authorities said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
France hits unwanted milestone: Over 100,000 virus deaths
PARIS (AP) — France on Thursday became the third country in Europe after the U.K. and Italy to reach the unwanted milestone of 100,000 COVID-19-related deaths as new infections and deaths surged due to virus variants.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
France hits unwanted milestone: Over 100,000 virus deaths
PARIS (AP) — France on Thursday became the third country in Europe after the U.K. and Italy to reach the unwanted milestone of 100,000 COVID-19-related deaths as new infections and deaths surged due to virus variants.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
France hits unwanted milestone: Over 100,000 virus deaths
PARIS (AP) — France on Thursday became the third country in Europe after the U.K. and Italy to reach the unwanted milestone of 100,000 COVID-19-related deaths as new infections and deaths surged due to virus variants.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Hundreds of French sports figures accused of sexual violence
PARIS (AP) — A year-long, nationwide French effort to uncover and combat sexual violence in sports has identified more than 400 coaches, teachers and others suspected of abuse or covering it up.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Europe ramps up vaccinations as virus haunts Easter holidays
PARIS (AP) — The French city of Lyon's main stadium opened as a mass vaccination center during Easter weekend, and thousands spent the holiday lining up for injections at hippodromes, velodromes or other sites as France tried to speed up shots amid a new rush of coronavirus cases.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Hundreds of French sports figures accused of sexual violence
PARIS (AP) — A year-long, nationwide French effort to uncover and combat sexual violence in sports has identified more than 400 coaches, teachers and others suspected of abuse or covering it up.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Europe ramps up vaccinations as virus haunts Easter holidays
PARIS (AP) — The French city of Lyon's main stadium opened as a mass vaccination center during Easter weekend, and thousands spent the holiday lining up for injections at hippodromes, velodromes or other sites as France tried to speed up shots amid a new rush of coronavirus cases.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Europe ramps up vaccinations as virus haunts Easter holidays
PARIS (AP) — The French city of Lyon's main stadium opened as a mass vaccination center during Easter weekend, and thousands spent the holiday lining up for injections at hippodromes, velodromes or other sites as France tried to speed up shots amid a new rush of coronavirus cases.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Hundreds of French sports figures accused of sexual violence
PARIS (AP) — A year-long, nationwide French effort to uncover and combat sexual violence in sports has identified more than 400 coaches, teachers and others suspected of abuse or covering it up.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Hundreds of French sports figures accused of sexual violence
PARIS (AP) — A year-long, nationwide French effort to uncover and combat sexual violence in sports has identified more than 400 coaches, teachers and others suspected of abuse or covering it up.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
French court weighs action over nursing home virus deaths
PARIS (AP) — One plaintiff lost her father in a nursing home last spring as the virus pandemic swept France. Another has fought for a year to keep her mother, isolated in another nursing home, out of depression.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
French court weighs action over nursing home virus deaths
PARIS (AP) — One plaintiff lost her father in a nursing home last spring as the virus pandemic swept France. Another has fought for a year to keep her mother, isolated in another nursing home, out of depression.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
French families sue over extensive nursing home virus deaths
PARIS (AP) — A Paris court is holding a hearing Wednesday in a class-action effort to hold French health authorities and companies accountable after thousands with the virus died in nursing homes, and families were locked out and left in the dark about what was happening to their isolated loved …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Surging virus in French African outpost reveals inequalities
MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — Mayotte’s main tourist office stands nearly empty, a lonely tropical outpost overlooking a people-less port. Its only hospital, however, is overwhelmed.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Surging virus in French African outpost reveals inequalities
MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — Mayotte’s main tourist office stands nearly empty, a lonely tropical outpost overlooking a people-less port. Its only hospital, however, is overwhelmed.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Surging virus in French African outpost reveals inequalities
MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — Mayotte’s main tourist office stands nearly empty, a lonely tropical outpost overlooking a people-less port. Its only hospital, however, is overwhelmed.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Pandemic haunts new year as virus growth outpaces vaccines
LONDON (AP) — Despite growing vaccine access, January is looking grim around the globe as the coronavirus resurges and reshapes itself from Britain to Japan to California, filling hospitals and threatening livelihoods anew as governments lock down businesses and race to find solutions.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Pandemic haunts new year as virus growth outpaces vaccines
LONDON (AP) — Despite growing vaccine access, January is looking grim around the globe as the coronavirus resurges and reshapes itself from Britain to Japan to California, filling hospitals and threatening livelihoods anew as governments lock down businesses and race to find solutions.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
France's go-slow coronavirus vaccination strategy backfires
PARIS (AP) — France’s cautious approach to rolling out a coronavirus vaccination program appears to have backfired, leaving barely 500 people inoculated in the first week and rekindling anger over the government’s handling of the pandemic.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
France's go-slow coronavirus vaccination strategy backfires
PARIS (AP) — France’s cautious approach to rolling out a coronavirus vaccination program appears to have backfired, leaving barely 500 people inoculated in the first week and rekindling anger over the government’s handling of the pandemic.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
France takes careful vaccine approach to counter skepticism
PARIS (AP) — While governments across Europe kicked off their virus vaccination plans this weekend with fanfare, France took a more low-key approach because of widespread skepticism among it citizens around the vaccines.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
France takes careful vaccine approach to counter skepticism
PARIS (AP) — While governments across Europe kicked off their virus vaccination plans this weekend with fanfare, France took a more low-key approach because of widespread skepticism among it citizens around the vaccines.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
France takes careful vaccine approach to counter skepticism
PARIS (AP) — While governments across Europe kicked off their virus vaccination plans this weekend with fanfare, France took a more low-key approach because of widespread skepticism among it citizens around the vaccines.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Virus-linked isolation of UK eases but backlog persists
DOVER, England (AP) — Gridlock at an English port kept thousands of truckers and travelers stranded Wednesday despite a deal with France to lift a two-day blockade imposed because of a new variant of the coronavirus that had isolated Britain and raised fears of food shortages.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Virus-linked isolation of UK eases but backlog persists
DOVER, England (AP) — Gridlock at an English port kept thousands of truckers and travelers stranded Wednesday despite a deal with France to lift a two-day blockade imposed because of a new variant of the coronavirus that had isolated Britain and raised fears of food shortages.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Virus-linked isolation of UK eases but backlog persists
DOVER, England (AP) — Gridlock at an English port kept thousands of truckers and travelers stranded Wednesday despite a deal with France to lift a two-day blockade imposed because of a new variant of the coronavirus that had isolated Britain and raised fears of food shortages.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
France's Macron blames his COVID-19 on negligence, bad luck
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday blamed his COVID-19 on a combination of negligence and bad luck, urging his compatriots to stay safe as critics called out slip-ups in his behavior to prevent infection, from a close-quarters handshake to repeated big-group meals over the past week.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
France's Macron blames his COVID on negligence, bad luck
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday blamed his COVID-19 on a combination of negligence and bad luck, urging his compatriots to stay safe as critics called out slip-ups in his behavior to prevent infection, from a close-quarters handshake to repeated big-group meals over the past week.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
France's Macron rides out virus, fever at Versailles retreat
PARIS (AP) — As French President Emmanuel Macron rides out the coronavirus in a presidential retreat at Versailles, critics on Friday called out slip-ups in his virus-prevention behavior, from a close-quarters handshake to repeated big-group meals over the past week.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
French teens protest after transgender classmate's suicide
LILLE, France (AP) — About 100 teenagers rallied in northern France on Friday to pay homage to a transgender student who killed herself this week after facing tensions with school officials for wearing a skirt to class, a case that has drawn online indignation and national attention to the issue …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Virus-stricken Macron at presidential retreat with fever
PARIS (AP) — As French President Emmanuel Macron rides out the coronavirus in a presidential retreat at Versailles, critics on Friday called out slip-ups in his virus protection behavior, from a close-quarters handshake to repeated big-group meals over the past week.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Facebook removes French, Russian accounts active in Africa
PARIS (AP) — Individuals linked to Russia and the French military used fake Facebook and Instagram accounts to wage a covert disinformation campaign in the Central African Republic ahead of elections there this month, Facebook announced this week.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Facebook removes French, Russian accounts active in Africa
PARIS (AP) — Individuals linked to Russia and the French military used fake Facebook and Instagram accounts to wage a covert disinformation campaign in the Central African Republic ahead of elections there this month, Facebook announced this week.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
French protesters decry bill outlawing use of police images
PARIS (AP) — Thousands of critics of a proposed security law that would restrict sharing images of police officers in France gathered across the country in protest Saturday, and officers in Paris who were advised to behave responsibly during the demonstrations fired tear gas to disperse rowdy protesters in the …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Protests over security bill take place across France
PARIS (AP) — Thousands of critics of a proposed security law that would restrict sharing images of police officers in France gathered across the country in protest Saturday, while Paris officers were advised to behave responsibly during the demonstrations in the wake of footage showing police using violence becoming public.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Protests over security bill planned across France
PARIS (AP) — Critics of a proposed French security law that would restrict sharing images of police are gathering across the country in protest on Saturday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Global push to end domestic violence, worse amid COVID-19
BRUSSELS (AP) — In a global push to end violence against women, activists held rallies Wednesday and world leaders called for action to stop the abuse, which has worsened because of the coronavirus pandemic this year.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Officials: 3 wounded in blast at non-Muslim Saudi cemetery
PARIS (AP) — Three people were wounded Wednesday when an improvised explosive device targeted a ceremony of French, American, British, Italian and Greek officials commemorating the end of World War I at a cemetery in the Saudi city of Jiddah, according to official statements.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Saudi officials: 2 wounded in blast at non-Muslim cemetery
PARIS (AP) — Two people were wounded Wednesday when an improvised explosive device targeted a ceremony of French, American, British, Italian and Greek officials commemorating the end of World War I at a cemetery in the Saudi city of Jiddah, according to official statements.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
France: Several wounded in explosion at Saudi cemetery
PARIS (AP) — Multiple people were wounded Wednesday when an explosive device hit an international ceremony commemorating the end of World War I at a cemetery in the Saudi city of Jiddah, according to French government officials.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
AP Interview: France wants Biden to calm trade disputes
PARIS (AP) — France’s trade minister hopes that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden acts soon to calm trade tensions fueled by Donald Trump, which have led to escalating trans-Atlantic tariffs hitting billions of dollars worth of wine, planes and other goods.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
AP Interview: France wants Biden to calm trade disputes
PARIS (AP) — France’s trade minister hopes that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden acts soon to calm trade tensions fueled by Donald Trump, which have led to escalating trans-Atlantic tariffs hitting billions of dollars worth of wine, planes and other goods.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
'I cry every day': Virus hits French nursing homes anew
PARIS (AP) — Virus pressure is mounting at French nursing homes, where more than 400 people with COVID-19 have died in the past week and some residents are again being confined to their rooms and cut off from their families.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Fast virus tests at French nursing homes as deaths rise anew
PARIS (AP) — Virus pressure is mounting at French nursing homes, where more than 400 people with COVID-19 have died in the past week and some residents are again being confined to their rooms and cut off from their families.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
France: Suspect in priest's shooting freed, search widens
LYON, France (AP) — French police on Sunday released an initial suspect in the shooting of a Greek Orthodox priest and widened their search for the gunman who critically wounded the priest as he closed the door to his official residence at a church in the city of Lyon.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
French churches honor Nice attack victims; 6 detained
PARIS (AP) — Churches around France held Sunday services honoring three people killed in an Islamic extremist attack at Notre Dame Basilica in the city of Nice that pushed the country into high security alert, while police questioned six suspects in the case.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
French manhunt underway after shooting of Greek priest
LYON, France (AP) — French police interrogated one suspect and searched for others Sunday after a Greek Orthodox priest was shot and critically wounded while closing the door to his church in the French city of Lyon.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
AP Explains: Why France sparks such anger in Muslim world
PARIS (AP) — Many countries, especially in the democratic West, champion freedom of expression and allow publications that lampoon Islam’s prophet. So why is France singled out for protests and calls for boycotts across the Muslim world, and so often the target of deadly violence from the extremist margins?
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence
PARIS (AP) — It’s been targeted again and again, threatened and firebombed and struck in an attack that killed a dozen staff members, but satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo won’t stop poking fun at Islamic extremism.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
AP Explains: Why France incites such anger in Muslim world
PARIS (AP) — Many countries, especially in the democratic West, champion freedom of expression and allow publications that lampoon Islam’s prophet. So why is France singled out for protests and calls for boycotts across the Muslim world, and so often the target of deadly violence from the extremist margins?
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
AP Explains: Why France incites such anger in Muslim world
PARIS (AP) — Many countries, especially in the democratic West, champion freedom of expression and allow publications that lampoon Islam’s prophet. So why is France singled out for protests and calls for boycotts across the Muslim world, and so often the target of deadly violence from the extremist margins?
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Orthodox priest shot at church in France, motive unknown
LYON, France (AP) — A Greek Orthodox priest was shot Saturday while he was closing his church in the French city of Lyon, and authorities locked down part of the city to hunt for the assailant, authorities said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
France church attack: Assailant's family seeks answers
SFAX, Tunisia (AP) — A third suspect is in French custody Saturday in connection with an Islamic extremist knife attack that killed three people in a Nice church, as the distraught family of the suspected Tunisian assailant asked to see video footage of what happened.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
France church attack: Assailant's family demands answers
SFAX, Tunisia (AP) — A third suspect is in French custody Saturday in connection with an Islamic extremist knife attack that killed three people in a Nice church, as the family of the suspected Tunisian assailant demanded to see video footage of what happened.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence
PARIS (AP) — It’s been targeted again and again, threatened and firebombed and struck in an attack that killed a dozen staff members, but satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo won’t stop poking fun at Islamic extremism.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
France mourns 3 killed in church attack, tightens security
NICE, France (AP) — Mourners lit candles and prayed silently Friday to honor three people killed in a knife attack at a church, as France heightened security at potential targets at home and abroad amid outrage over its defense of the right to publish cartoons mocking the prophet of Islam.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
New arrest after France church attack, security tightened
NICE, France (AP) — Mourners lit candles and prayed silently Friday to honor the three people who were killed in a French church by a young Tunisian, as France heightened security nationwide amid religious and geopolitical tensions around published cartoons mocking the prophet of Islam.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence
PARIS (AP) — It’s been targeted again and again, threatened and firebombed and struck in an attack that killed a dozen staff members, but satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo won’t stop poking fun at Islamic extremism.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence
PARIS (AP) — It’s been targeted again and again, threatened and firebombed and struck in an attack that killed a dozen staff members, but satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo won’t stop poking fun at Islamic extremism.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Germany, France look to more limits to curb rebounding virus
BERLIN (AP) — German officials agreed to impose a four-week partial lockdown and the French government announced a nationwide lockdown Wednesday as European governments sought to stop a fast-rising tide of coronavirus cases sweeping the continent.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Germany, France look to more limits to curb rebounding virus
BERLIN (AP) — German officials agreed to impose a four-week partial lockdown and the French government announced a nationwide lockdown Wednesday as European governments sought to stop a fast-rising tide of coronavirus cases sweeping the continent.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
German officials agree on partial lockdown to curb virus
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel says German officials have agreed to a four-week shutdown of restaurants, bars, cinemas, theaters and other leisure facilities in a bid to curb a sharp rise in coronavirus infections.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
France ends search after Channel capsize kills family of 4
PARIS (AP) — French rescuers on Wednesday abandoned the hunt for survivors from a boat carrying migrants that capsized while trying to cross the English Channel to Britain, leaving at least four people dead.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Germany, France gear up for new lockdowns as virus surges
BERLIN (AP) — Germany and France got ready to face new lockdowns Wednesday, as governments sought to stop a fast-rising tide of coronavirus cases sweeping the continent.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
France calls off search after capsize in Channel kills 4
PARIS (AP) — French rescuers say there is no hope of finding any more survivors from a boat carrying migrants that capsized while trying to cross the English Channel to England.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
4 dead, 15 rescued in English Channel migrant boat sinking
PARIS (AP) — At least four people, including two young children, died Tuesday when a boat carrying at least 19 migrants capsized off France while trying to cross the English Channel to Britain, French authorities said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
France tightens security amid fallout from teacher beheading
PARIS (AP) — France is increasing security at religious sites as the interior minister said Tuesday that the country faces a “very high” risk of terrorist threats, amid growing geopolitical tensions following the beheading of a teacher who showed his class caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
French doctor warns his country has 'lost control' of virus
PARIS (AP) — A French doctor warned Monday that his country has “lost control of the epidemic,” a day after health authorities reported more than 52,000 new coronavirus cases as nations across Europe enact more sweeping restrictions to try to slow surging infection rates.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Facing terror charges, ETA's last boss apologizes for deaths
PARIS (AP) — A Paris appeals court postponed Monday the first of two back-to-back terrorism trials this week against the last-known chief of ETA, the now-extinct Basque separatist militant group, charges that the defendant deems “absurd” because of his role in ending a conflict that claimed some 850 lives and …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
French leader decries Islamist terror attack against teacher
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called an “Islamist terrorist attack” against a history teacher decapitated in a Paris suburb Friday, urging the nation to stand united against extremism.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Virus at 'turning point' in Europe, hitting at-risk groups
MILAN (AP) — Doctors are warning that Europe is at a turning point as the coronavirus surges back across the continent, including among vulnerable people, and governments try to impose restrictions without locking whole economies down.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
French police search homes of top officials in virus probe
PARIS (AP) — French police searched the homes of the health minister, the former prime minister and other top officials Thursday in an investigation into the government's response to the global coronavirus pandemic.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
As virus fills French ICUs anew, doctors ask what went wrong
PARIS (AP) — During a single overnight shift this week, three new COVID-19 patients were rushed into Dr. Karim Debbat’s small intensive care ward in the southern French city of Arles. It now has more virus patients than during the pandemic’s first wave and is scrambling to create new ICU …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
As virus fills French ICUs anew, doctors ask what went wrong
PARIS (AP) — During a single overnight shift this week, three new COVID-19 patients were rushed into Dr. Karim Debbat’s small intensive care ward in the southern French city of Arles. It now has more virus patients than during the pandemic’s first wave and is scrambling to create new ICU …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Facing ICU crunch, Europe rushes to build field hospitals
The strain facing some of the world’s best health care systems has been aggravated by hospital budget cuts over the past decade in Italy, Spain, France and Britain
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
New York deaths double in 3 days, with worst to come
With city on near-lockdown, the normally bustling streets are empty
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
Europe faces ICU crunch, rushes to build field hospitals
ROME (AP) — Facing intense surges in the need for hospital ICU beds, European nations are on a building and hiring spree, throwing together makeshift hospitals and shipping coronavirus patients out of overwhelmed cities via high-speed trains and military jets. The key question is whether they will be able to …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
Virus forces Europeans to ask: How united do we want to be?
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Europe’s fractured union came under new pressure this weekend, as Italy and Spain pleaded for urgent European help to withstand the virus ordeal but Germany showed reluctance to plunge into any radical new solutions.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO
Italy quarantines north in drastic bid to slow virus spread
ROME (AP) — Italy took a page from China’s playbook Sunday, attempting to lock down 16 million people — more than a quarter of its population — for nearly a month to halt the relentless march of the new coronavirus across Europe.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO
Italy quarantines north in drastic bid to slow virus spread
ROME (AP) — Italy took a page from China’s playbook Sunday, attempting to lock down 16 million people — more than a quarter of its population — for nearly a month to halt the relentless march of the new coronavirus across Europe.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO
Italy quarantines north in drastic bid to slow virus spread
ROME (AP) — Italy took a page from China’s playbook Sunday, attempting to lock down 16 million people — more than a quarter of its population — for nearly a month to halt the relentless march of the new coronavirus across Europe.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO
Italy announces quarantine affecting quarter of population
BEIJING (AP) — Italy's prime minister announced a sweeping coronavirus quarantine early Sunday, restricting the movements of about a quarter of the country's population in a bid to limit contagions at the epicenter of Europe's outbreak.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO
Italy announces quarantine affecting quarter of population
BEIJING (AP) — Italy's prime minister announced a sweeping coronavirus quarantine early Sunday, restricting the movements of about a quarter of the country's population in a bid to limit contagions at the epicenter of Europe's outbreak.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO
Italy announces quarantine affecting quarter of population
BEIJING (AP) — Italy's prime minister announced a sweeping coronavirus quarantine early Sunday, restricting the movements of about a quarter of the country's population in a bid to limit contagions at the epicenter of Europe's outbreak.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO
Virus cases top 100,000 in 90 countries as markets take dive
PARIS (AP) — Crossing more borders, the new coronavirus hit a milestone, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide as it wove itself deeper into the daily lives of millions, infecting the powerful, the unprotected poor and vast masses in between.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO
Virus cases top 100,000 in 90 countries as markets take dive
PARIS (AP) — Crossing more borders, the new coronavirus hit a milestone, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide as it wove itself deeper into the daily lives of millions, infecting the powerful, the unprotected poor and vast masses in between.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO
Virus cases top 100,000 in 90 countries as markets take dive
PARIS (AP) — Crossing more borders, the new coronavirus hit a milestone, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide as it wove itself deeper into the daily lives of millions, infecting the powerful, the unprotected poor and vast masses in between.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO
At least 100 dead in Paris attacks
PARIS — At least 100 people died in a popular Paris concert hall where attackers seized hostages Friday, an official said, one of at least six terror attacks that unfolded across the city in the deadliest violence Paris has seen since World War II.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
France prepares for mass anti-terrorism rally
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
French Senate says 'non' to child pageants
PARIS - Child beauty pageants may soon be banned in France, after a surprise vote in the French Senate that rattled the pageant industry and raised questions about how the French relate to girls' sexuality.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
European support rising for Lagarde's IMF bid
PARIS - France's frank, hard-working and chic finance minister, Christine Lagarde, emerged Friday as Europe's likely choice to lead the International Monetary Fund.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
World intervenes in Libya
PARIS - In diplomatic terms, international military action against Libya's leader went from the brainstorming stage to the shooting-at-tanks stage with stunning speed.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS AGO
Paintings stolen from Paris museum
PARIS - A thief stole five paintings valued at more than $100 million, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, in an overnight heist Thursday at a Paris modern art museum with a broken alarm system, officials said.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Ash may hover for days over Europe
PARIS - The Icelandic volcano that has kept much of Europe land-bound is far from finished spitting out its grit, and offered up new mini-eruptions Saturday that raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
FIA rules in favor of part that helped Brawn GP
PARIS - Brawn GP's Jenson Button can keep his Formula One victories, while Ferrari will have to rush to redesign its car.
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 16 YEARS AGO
FIA rules in favor of part that helped Brawn GP
PARIS - Brawn GP's Jenson Button can keep his Formula One victories, while Ferrari will have to rush to redesign its car.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 16 YEARS AGO
FIA rules in favor of part that helped Brawn GP
PARIS - Brawn GP's Jenson Button can keep his Formula One victories, while Ferrari will have to rush to redesign its car.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 16 YEARS AGO
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