Intense rains and snow have been forecast in south-western France, where more than 23,000 people are without power as storm Gloria batters the region.

Hong Kong activists vow to return to the streets on July 1st after police rounded up high level campaigners over the weekend, arresting fifteen on charges of being involved in massive city-wide...

A Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon detained under a new national security law was granted bail on Wednesday under strict conditions, including house arrest and a ban on social media posts.

Two leading figures from Hong Kong’s Democratic Party were among 16 people arrested in the latest police swoop against the city’s pro-democracy movement on Wednesday.

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday was faced with trying to salvage a ruling majority and with it his economic reform agenda after voters punished his centrist "Ensemble" alliance in France's...

China has handed down jail sentences of up to three years to 10 democracy activists from Hong Kong after they attempted to escape to Taiwan by boat earlier this year. Two other teenage members of the…

France is bracing for Act 20 of nationwide anti-government Yellow Vest protests on Saturday. Police are to be deployed in force amid fears of a repeat of violence, after the government banned...

Hackers operating from Russia and China targeted France's homeschooling platform which crashed at the start of a nationwide lockdown last week, investigators said Monday.

The possibility that France's top-selling music artist Aya Nakamura might sing an Edith Piaf song during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony has upset far-right groups.

Thirteen people who describe themselves as the “victims of forced confessions broadcast on Chinese television” have written an open letter to Europe's largest satellite operator, Eutelsat, asking it…

Italy summoned the Chinese ambassador over China’s response to European Union sanctions on Chinese officials accused of being involved in human rights abuses on the Muslim Uyghur minority in Zinjia...

A group of lawmakers loyal to China’s Communist Party were sworn in to Hong Kong's legislature on Monday following an election without opposition candidates. This as yet another pro-democracy news...

The prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has been formally charged with raping two more women, adding to two existing charges of rape. The charges were pronounced on Thursday at the end of a court…

Amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas and the ongoing war in Ukraine, the exodus of ethnic Armenians from the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh is getting little media attention – to the...

Leading publisher, Hachette, has scrapped plans to release the autobiography of filmmaker Woody Allen following an outcry and a staff walkout. But the book’s French publisher hopes to press ahead. 

It was third time lucky for Sadio Mané when the Liverpool and Senegal striker was anointed African footballer of the year. The 27-year-old eclipsed his teammate Mo Salah and Manchester City's Riyad...

 Two more people have died from coronavirus infection in France, taking the total to nine, while the number of confirmed infections rose by 154 to 577, the health ministry said on its website on...

While France mulls whether to join a majority of EU nations in banning wild animals in circuses, the capital Paris is pressing ahead with its own plan to outlaw the practice amid fresh concerns over…

Paris’s iconic Eiffel Tower prepared to celebrate the 130th anniversary of its opening on Wednesday by welcoming 1,300 children before hosting a concert and an unprecedented sound and light show.

Nepal has registered its first LGBTQ+ marriage in what is being hailed as a victory for transgender and same-sex couples in conservative South Asia.

Maeva Coucke, Miss France 2018, was one of several contestants who slipped and fell on the runway during the swimsuit competition of Miss Universe, ahead of the final gala evening on Sunday in the US…

The United States, Germany and the United Nations have expressed concern after Indian police arrested Delhi’s chief minister on corruption charges just weeks ahead of national elections. The ruling...

Valérie Pécresse, the president of the Ile-de-France region, which includes Paris, has denounced what she called "urban separatism" and said eradicating Islamism was impossible without breaking up...

France has begun using Novavax, a non-mRNA vaccine, to try and sway the unvaccinated as the number of Covid infections slightly increases raising concerns a sixth wave could be around the corner. But…

Uganda’s most prominent human rights lawyer, Nicholas Opiyo, has been arrested along with three other lawyers and a human rights officer for opposition candidate Bobi Wine’s National Unity Platform...

France's interior minister says that he will seek to overturn a rule change in the city of Grenoble that would allow women to wear burkinis in state-run swimming pools.

A Paris court has handed guilty verdicts to 14 suspects accused of helping to plan deadly attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine, police officers and a kosher market in January 2015. The court dropped...

Three French figures – including a theologian – have launched an appeal for all of France’s bishops to resign in the wake of a report last week which found 'systemic' child sex abuse within the...

For more than 40 years Julienne Lusenge has been working tirelessly to help victims of wartime sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her courage and efforts to expose perpetrators and…

Bare-chested Maori warriors joined more than 3,000 other troops and dozens of helicopters and fighters roared overhead as France honoured Australia and New Zealand in its Bastille Day parade in Paris…

Mischa, a performing circus bear used in shows in France has died following an operation at an animal refuge, just two months after he was rescued from owners who allegedly subjected him to years of…

Two rights groups on Wednesday accused Ethiopian security forces and their allies of waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Tigray, a long-contested part of northern Ethiopia.

Murder, rape, arson, immolating children and mutilating corpses are among some of the rights abuses allegedly being carried out against indigenous people by the military and forest rangers at Kahuzi…