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France has a new government, again. Politics and crushing debt complicate next steps

Dec. 24, 2024 11:27 AM EST

PARIS (AP) — France’s president and prime minister managed to form a new government just in time for the holidays. Now comes the hard part. Crushing debt, intensifying pressure from the nationalist far right, wars in Europe and the Mideast: Challenges abound for President...

France has a new government. Now it must fix the budget while avoiding collapse

Dec. 23, 2024 13:29 PM EST

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s office announced a new government Monday, after the previous Cabinet collapsed in a historic vote prompted by fighting over the country's budget. The government, put together by newly named Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, includes...

France observes a day of mourning for victims of Cyclone Chido in its Mayotte territory off Africa

Dec. 23, 2024 10:07 AM EST

PARIS (AP) — France marked a day of mourning Monday for victims of Cyclone Chido, which devastated its poorest territory, Mayotte, over a week ago. The cyclone was the most destructive to hit Mayotte in 90 years and caused extensive damage to the island off Africa's east coast. At...

Destructive Cyclone Chido unearths a rift between locals and migrants in France's Mayotte

Dec. 22, 2024 11:37 AM EST

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — When Cyclone Chido ravaged Mayotte’s fragile infrastructure, it also exposed deep-seated tensions between the island’s residents and its large migrant population. Thousands of people who have entered the island illegally bore the brunt of the storm...

France's Mayotte struggles to recover as cyclone overwhelms hospitals

Dec. 21, 2024 12:33 PM EST

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — One week after its worst cyclone in nearly a century, and a day after a testy presidential visit, France’s impoverished Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte is still grappling with counting the dead, restoring essential services and aiding a beleaguered population. ...

Today in History: December 21, Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie

Dec. 21, 2024 00:03 AM EST

Today is Saturday, Dec. 21, the 356th day of 2024. There are 10 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 21, 1988, 270 people were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the...

Crowds in Mayotte vent frustration with cyclone response as Macron tours devastation

Dec. 20, 2024 20:48 PM EST

MIRERENI, Mayotte (AP) — Crowds in Mayotte vented their frustration at French President Emmanuel Macron, with some booing, as he toured destruction wrought by the strongest cyclone to hit the French territory in nearly a century. Particularly tense scenes on Thursday underscored...

France's military is being ousted from more African countries. Here's why

Dec. 20, 2024 00:17 AM EST

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — It's been a tumultuous month for France and its relationship with former colonies in Africa, as its influence on the continent faces the biggest challenge in decades. As Paris was devising a new military strategy that would sharply reduce its permanent troop...

France's Macron says tour of cyclone-devastated Mayotte is a day he won't forget

Dec. 19, 2024 17:17 PM EST

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Thursday in the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte to survey Cyclone Chido’s destruction and was immediately confronted with a first-hand account of devastation across the French territory. “Mayotte is...

Burkina Faso releases four French nationals after detaining them for a year

Dec. 19, 2024 07:38 AM EST

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso's junta-led government said Thursday that it had released four French nationals it called spies, following Morocco-mediated negotiations with France. The West African nation's information agency said in a statement that Capt. Ibrahim...