Europe France The French government has announced that it will not attend the next meeting of the UN conference against racism, scheduled for September, because of anti-Semitic statements made during previous meetings
Europe France The National Assembly, the lower house of the French parliament, approved by 44 votes to 2 a bill banning discrimination based on hair, preventing employers from requiring their employees to iron afro and dreadlocks and braids
Europe France With four months to go until the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, French authorities have raised the maximum alert level for the terrorist threat, deploying 4.000 more soldiers
Europe France Sophie Binet, general secretary of the General Confederation of Labor, said her union may organize strikes during the Olympics to be held in Paris between July and August
Europe France French senators voted overwhelmingly in favour (267 in favour, 50 against) of inserting into the Constitution the 'guaranteed freedom' of women 'to have recourse to the voluntary interruption of pregnancy'