カテゴリー: France
People around the world marked International Women’s Day on Sunday with rallies, marches and protests. In London, topless protesters formed a human chain on Waterloo bridge to highlight the vulnerability of women in the face of the climate crisis. In K…
Follow the day’s developments as the death toll climbs above 1,500 and number of cases reaches 66,000 1.31pm GMT UK citizens on board the locked down cruise ship in Japan are appealing to be brought home for quarantine in Britain but the government has…
French health minister confirms death of man from virus that has killed more than 1,500 peopleCoronavirus: latest updates – liveEurope has recorded its first coronavirus fatality, a Chinese tourist in France, it has been confirmed.The death of the 80-y…
End of extended lunar new year break seen as crucial test of containment strategyChina has recorded its deadliest day so far in the coronavirus outbreak, as authorities braced for millions of people to return to work on Monday after the lunar new year …
Infected Briton flew from conference in Asia to Alps and then returned to UKAn international manhunt is under way to trace more than 100 people who were at a business conference in Singapore where the British national who infected five others at a Fren…
Incidents of hostility towards Asian people reported in Italy, France, Canada and UKCoronavirus latest: live updatesChinese people in western countries where there have been cases of the Wuhan coronavirus have said they have been the target of racist a…
UK embassy in Beijing says it is working on option for British nationals to leave ChinaCoronavirus latest – live updatesBritain’s embassy in Beijing has said it is “working to make available an option” for British nationals to leave the Chinese provinc…
Some are trusted aides, others are fixers who work in the shadows. Often unelected and unaccountable, they all have the ear of national leadersThe role of Dominic Cummings in plotting and facilitating Boris Johnson’s drive for power has focused attenti…
This year world leaders struggled to manage the fallout from the erratic tenant in the White House – as China flexed its imperial muscles. We look back at the events that created the most turbulenceClick here for 2019’s reasons to be cheerful A year of…
People of Chinese descent have long faced prejudice and violence in France. But today a new generation is staking out its rightful place in society. By Tash AwOn 7 August 2016, Zhang Chaolin, a 49-year-old tailor, was savagely beaten by a group of yout…
Uighurs living in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, and France have complained of intimidation by Beijing Two days after Abdujelil Emet sat in the public gallery of Germany’s parliament during a hearing on human rights, he received a phone cal…
French prosecutors open criminal investigation into London teenager’s death A postmortem of Nora Quoirin, the 15-year-old girl who went missing in the Malaysian jungle, has yet to determine a definitive cause of death and will continue on Thursday, say…
Action comes after France gave asylum to wife of jailed former Interpol chief Meng HongweiChina has cut off all cooperation with France on police affairs, after Paris gave asylum to the Chinese wife of a former Interpol chief now in jail on corruption …