French PM plans new tax on people earning over 250,000 euros a year, Les Echos says

PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu plans a tax targeting individuals with annual incomes of over 250,000 euros to try to win the Socialist opposition's backing for his government's 2026 state budget, financial daily Les Echos...

French air traffic controllers cancel three-day strike

French air traffic controllers have called off a three-day strike that threatened to disrupt European skies next week, a top union said on Saturday. The main union in the sector, the SNCTA, announced the suspension of its "strike notice for...

French photojournalist Antoni Lallican killed in Ukraine drone attack

Antoni Lallican, an award-winning French photographer on assignment in Ukraine, died in a drone attack in the eastern Donbas region on Friday, press groups have announced. It is the first time a journalist has been killed by a drone in Ukraine in...

How to Protect Democracy: Senegal Elects a New President

On Mar. 24, 2024, Bassirou Diomaye Faye won the Senegal presidential election with over 54% of the popular vote. Less than two weeks prior, Faye and his prime minister pick, Ousmane Sonko, were in prison, serving their respective sentences. The...

Expenses-scandal Paris mayor tries to drag down everyone else with her

It’s been a torrid time to be a French politician. If you’re not one in a line of ousted prime ministers or being locked up for criminal conspiracy, you could now even be publicly exposed by your own mayor. In what has been dubbed “the war of the...

What the International Stabilization Force for Gaza, proposed by Trump, envisages

There are two parts to US President Donald Trump’s 20-point ‘Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict’, released on September 29. The first is an immediate ceasefire with both Hamas and Israel releasing Israeli and Palestinian captives. The...

Inside France: From sleazy Sarko to France's 100-year-old activist heroine

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times - or at least the best and worst of France, with the death of an extraordinary 100-year-old woman who dedicated her life to activism, and an ex-president who seems to have devoted himself to...

Tough Efforts to Unify the Libyan Military Institution: Can Al-Menfi Overcome the Division?

By Almahdi Hindi, political activist The meeting held by Presidential Council President Mohamed Al-Menfi with the Chief of General Staff of the Western Region, Lieutenant General Mohamed Al-Haddad, and several senior officers in Tripoli, reflects...

Fatal gang-related shooting in France leaves two dead, five wounded, suspects at large

PARIS, Oct 4 — Two people were shot dead and five others injured, some seriously, in southern France’s coastal city of Nice, reported German Pres Agency (dpa). Officials on Saturday said an investigation is underway on suspicion of premeditated...

Chad's parliament speeds through plan to drop presidential term limits

Lawmakers in Chad have fast-tracked a proposal to allow the president to serve an unlimited number of terms, in a move that the opposition warns opens the door to authoritarianism. Both houses of parliament passed the reform on Friday, 10 days...

Are Authoritarian Presidents Good or Bad for U.S.?

Suppose that a foreign student here in the United States, fluent in English but completely unaware of American politics, watches Sean Hannity on Fox News and is convinced that former FBI Director James Comey was the ring leader of the corrupt Deep...

Why did Mthethwa book the Paris hotel for two days?

Investigations into the death of South Africa’s Ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa will be bolstered as a senior team of investigators from the South African Police Services (SAPS) are expected to travel to Paris for a week to probe how he died....

Mthethwa family welcome Saps support to French authorities as they probe death

Police Minister Firoz Cachalia announced that a team of investigators is being dispatched to France to assist with the probe. The family of the late former South African ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, is travelling to France to repatriate...

'Total cost' of Tour de France in Edinburgh revealed — but true bill still unclear

The City of Edinburgh Council has already agreed to contribute £1.7m, reportedly equal to the maximum potential income from the city’s new ‘tourist tax’ over the period of the event. The Scottish Government said it will "underwrite" the £1.6m...

Artists help break the silence around France's rising scourge of loneliness

Loneliness is a fact of daily life for millions of people in France, with record numbers cut off from friends, family and neighbours. At the Photoclimat Biennale in Paris, organisations working to combat isolation have joined forces with artists...

Macron Blames Russia as Drone Kills French Photojournalist in Ukraine

A drone killed a French photojournalist on assignment in eastern Ukraine on Friday and wounded a Ukrainian reporter, officials and media groups said. Antoni Lallican, 37, was embedded with Ukraine's Fourth Armored Brigade near the front line in...

Shooting leaves 2 dead, 5 wounded in France's Nice

HESPRESS English – Morocco News International Hespress ENSaturday 4 October 2025 - 13:26 Officials said Saturday that two people were shot dead and five others wounded, some seriously, in the southern French coastal city of Nice, while the search...

Franck Amsallem: A Jazz Life From New York To Paris

Franck Amsallem is a Paris-based pianist, singer, and composer educated in the United States. His debut recording, Out A Day (OMD, 1992) with Gary Peacock and Bill Stewart was recently reissued and remastered (streaming only), and his most recent...

Trial begins in France: Stopped from molesting minors, Sudanese refugee came back armed and killed three

A Sudanese refugee who was prevented from molesting women in France is accused of returning an hour later armed with a knife and carrying out a deadly rampage that left three young men dead and several others injured. The trial of 35-year-old Al...

Five-member SAPS team deployed to France to investigate Nathi Mthethwa’s death

There was speculation in French media that he had fallen from a building in Paris on Monday in what is believed to have been a suicide. He had been reported missing on Tuesday. French reports indicated that Mthethwa disappeared at about 3pm on...