Year: 2018

BBC News – Home Channel migrants: UK and France to step up patrols Six Iranian migrants are found on the Kent coast as the home secretary cuts short a holiday to deal with the issue. […]

Reuters: Top News Turnout falters but France’s ‘yellow vest’ protests rumble on France’s “yellow vest” demonstrators kept numerous roads across the country blocked on Saturday as groups of protesters marched in city centers, but the […]

Fresh Yellow Vest protests to be held on Saturday and New Year’s Eve The “yellow vest” anti-government protests that have rocked France will be held on Saturday and New Year’s Eve, and continue into 2019, […]

BBC News – Home Paris: A city that is turning streets into gardens People living in Paris are planting little gardens in the streets. more info…

Paris’s Louvre Museum gets a record 10 million visitors in 2018 It’s one of the most famous museums in the world. Paris’s Louvre is on track to break its record with 10 million visitors in […]

More than 1.6 million sign petition to sue France over climate inaction More than 1.6 million people have so far signed an online petition launched by environmental groups last week calling for the French state […]

BBC News – Home The Spiderman of Paris: What happened next? Mamadou Gassama saved a boy dangling from a Paris balcony. But what happened when the media moved on? more info…

Kurds urge France to play bigger role in Syria amid US troop withdrawal A senior Kurdish politician has called on France to play a stronger role in Syria following the withdrawal of US troops from […]

Reuters: Top News Trump’s Syria pullout a ‘grave decision’: French defense minister U.S. President Donald Trump took “an extremely grave decision” to pull troops from Syria, France’s defense minister said on Friday. more info…

Reuters: Top News France says Islamic State has not been wiped from map in Syria France’s defense minister said on Thursday that Islamic State militants had been weakened but not been wiped from the map […]