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Striking French railway workers in the city of Lyon on Wednesday hold a banner reading “until the withdrawal,” referring to their demand that the government abandon its pension reform plans. (Photo by Jeff Pachoud / AFP via Getty Images)
Macron Struggles to Justify Pension Reforms Amid Protests After Narrowly Surviving No-Confidence Vote
March 22, 2023 | 4:39pm EDT
A nuclear power plant in southwestern France. (Photo by Matthieu Rondel / AFP via Getty Images)
French Lawmakers Debate Bill to Ease Building of Reactors, Amid Rising Support For Nuclear Energy
March 14, 2023 | 8:21pm EDT
Tunisian President Kais Saied. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
World Bank Suspends Parnership With Tunisia After President’s Remarks About Sub-Saharan African Migrants
March 7, 2023 | 4:59pm EST
French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Paris in 2019. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)
Macron To Visit China to Try to Push For an End the Ukraine-Russia War
February 27, 2023 | 8:50pm EST
French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Elysee palace in Paris in 2019. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)
Moscow and Kyiv Both Unhappy With Macron’s Remark That Russia Must Lose the War But Not Be ‘Crushed’
February 21, 2023 | 4:30pm EST
Then-French President Jacques Chirac and Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2006, the year Chirac awarded Putin the Légion d'Honneur. (Photo by Dmitri Astakhov / AFP via Getty Images)
Macron Mulls Stripping Putin of France’s Highest Order of Merit – At ‘The Right Moment’
February 14, 2023 | 5:02pm EST
Protestors in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou wave Russian and Burkina Faso national flags. (Photo by Issouf Sanogo / AFP via Getty Images)
Pro-Russian Propaganda Videos Aimed at Africans Depict French Troops As Rats, Zombies and Snakes
February 7, 2023 | 6:35pm EST
Russian flags were seen during demonstrations last week in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou in support of the junta’s decision to demand the departure of the French ambassador and French special forces. (Photo by Olympia De Maismont / AFP via Getty Images)
As Russian Influence Grows, Burkina Faso Orders France to Withdraw Troops
January 30, 2023 | 6:39pm EST
A Catholic visits a cross and statue of the Virgin Mary in western France. (Photo by Loic Venance / AFP via Getty Images)
Demolish ‘Uninteresting Little Churches’ in France, Former Culture Minister Suggests
January 16, 2023 | 6:23pm EST
Iranians angered by the cartoons demonstrate against France outside the French Embassy in Tehran this week. (Photo by Atta Kenare / AFP via Getty Images)
France-Iran Relations Strained Over Ayatollah Cartoons Row, Regime Executions
January 10, 2023 | 5:14pm EST