The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late 1950s, as a way for France to control the economies of its African ...

Toussaint L’Ouverture emerged as the leader of the Haitian revolution in the late 1780s, playing a key role in leading the ...

The longtime patriarch of the French far right, Jean-Marie Le Pen, died last month. Yet while the cadaver lies in the ground, ...

This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...

The French economy grew 1.1 percent in 2024 but shrank in the fourth quarter as a political crisis gripped the country, weakening a boost from the Paris Olympic Games, official data showed Thursday.

For some, a secular state is the foundation of an open society, which allows both faith and blasphemy. For others, secularism ...

Details are emerging about the Washington air disaster that killed 67 people — and some of those factors are only likely to fuel political fights ... when he implied during a White House ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou wants to split an "end of life" bill to separate the issue of "active assistance in dying" from that of palliative care -- a proposal seen as a smart attempt to ...

In a bid to save lives and property during natural calamities, Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan has pitched for the creation of a national disaster map. In a bid to save lives and ...

A French detainee took advantage of a trip to ... managed to run off at the busy Gare du Nord train and metro station on Wednesday during a day out to visit the Musée de l'Homme anthropological ...

The French economy ends the year 2024 on a worrying note with a contraction of 0.1% of its GDP in the fourth quarter. This situation occurs in a particularly tense context, where the public deficit ...