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Sensational mass trial shines a dark light on rape culture in France
AVIGNON, France (AP) — They are, on the face of it, the most ordinary of men. Yet they’re all on trial charged with rape. Fathers, grandfathers, husbands, workers and retirees — 50 in all — accused of taking turns on the drugged and inert body of Gisèle Pelicot while her husband recorded...
French ships and a ferry recover bodies of 3 migrants in latest failed crossing of English Channel
PARIS (AP) — French rescue vessels and a passenger ferry pulled the bodies of three migrants from the English Channel on Wednesday, pushing the count so far this year of dead and missing in the busy waterway’s French side to above 50. French maritime authorities said 45 other...
French legislators divided over a lawmaker caught buying drugs
PARIS (AP) — French politicians are deeply divided over the fate of lawmaker Andy Kerbrat, caught last week buying synthetic drugs, and whether his breaking the law should push him to resign. Kerbrat, of the far-left France Unbowed party, acknowledged the facts via a statement on X...
France defends restrictions on Israeli firms supplying Middle East wars and says it's not a boycott
PARIS (AP) — France's government on Tuesday defended its decision to bar Israeli companies supplying the wars in the Middle East from exhibiting at an upcoming trade fair outside Paris. Organizers of the Nov. 4-7 naval defense exhibition, called Euronaval, posted on the event's...
Rwandan genocide survivors describe the 1994 mass killings at a Paris trial
PARIS (AP) — Bullets flew. Then men with machetes and clubs burst into a convent where people had found refuge, killing almost all the boys and men. Angélique Uwamahoro was 13 at the time of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. She said she had to walk through the bodies to survive. ...
French transport minister meets cycling groups after a traffic death sparks protests
PARIS (AP) — The French transport minister is expected to meet with cycling associations on Monday following the death of a cyclist in Paris after a dispute with a driver. The 27-year-old cyclist, Paul Varry, was allegedly deliberately run over last Tuesday by an SUV driver, who...
Demonstrators in France praise Gisèle Pélicot's courage in harrowing drug and rape trial
PARIS (AP) — Women and men demonstrated together Saturday in Paris and other French cities in support of Gisèle Pélicot and against sexual violence highlighted by the harrowing trial of her ex-husband and dozens of other men being prosecuted for rapes while she was drugged and unconscious. ...
Two days of torrential rain bring major flooding to central France
PARIS (AP) — France's prime minister said Friday that firefighters and other rescuers have been involved in about 2,300 operations, some of them lifesaving, in what appears to be the biggest flooding in 40 years in central France. Michel Barnier visited French authorities' crisis...
Flooding in central France submerges rail and road links
PARIS (AP) — Torrential rains and flooding submerged roads and railways in central France on Thursday, disrupting transportation in the region. National railway operator SNCF halted regional trains between the cities of Lyon and Saint-Étienne, saying the tracks were impassable....
Emma Hayes names USWNT roster for first matches since winning gold at the Olympics
Trinity Rodman will miss a trio of upcoming matches for the U.S. women's national soccer team as she continues to recover from a back injury. Coach Emma Hayes named her roster Thursday for games against Iceland on Oct. 24 in Austin, Texas, and Oct. 27 in Nashville. The Americans then...
