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French fire brigade tracking on a rubber boats a Beluga whale on the Seine river in Saint-Pierre-la-Garenne, west of Paris, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. French authorities are tracking a Beluga whale that strayed far from its Artic habitat into the Seine River, raising fears that the ethereal white mammal could starve if it stays in the waterway that flows through Paris and beyond. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
In France, a Battle to Save Weakened Whale Lost in the Seine
  • 5 August 2022
French environmentalists were hoping to feed a catch of herring to a worryingly thin Beluga...
  • AP News
In France, a Battle to Save Weakened Whale Lost in the Seine
This photo provided by the fire brigade of the Gironde region (SDIS 33) shows a firefighter at work at a forest fire at La Test-de-Buch, southwestern France, late Monday, July 18, 2022. France scrambled more water-bombing planes and hundreds more firefighters to combat spreading wildfires that were being fed Monday by hot swirling winds from a searing heat wave broiling much of Europe. (SDIS 33 via AP)
Man Detained in Police Probe of Raging Wildfires in France
  • 19 July 2022
French investigators probing the suspected deliberate lighting of what has become a raging wildfire in...
  • AP News
Man Detained in Police Probe of Raging Wildfires in France
A giant snake skeleton was supposedly found off the coast of France on Google Maps and Google Earth and was purportedly Titanoboa.
Was a Giant Snake Skeleton Found on Google Maps?
  • 25 March 2022
Titanoboa was "the largest snake that ever lived" at a length of "about 42 feet...
  • Fact Check
Was a Giant Snake Skeleton Found on Google Maps?
This undated photo provided by Ludovic Slimak shows scientists working at the entrance of the Mandrin cave, near Montelimar, southern France. Scientists have uncovered fossilized modern human remains and tools sandwiched between Neanderthal remains and tools in the stratigraphic record at a site in the Rhône Valley in France, suggesting occupation of the area alternated between Neanderthals and modern humans. (Ludovic Slimak via AP)
French Cave Tells New Story About Neanderthals, Early Humans
  • 10 February 2022
Researchers from Europe and the United States described finding fossilized homo sapiens remains and tools...
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French Cave Tells New Story About Neanderthals, Early Humans
Baker Hugo Hardy prepares baguettes to be sold at Bigot bakery in Versailles, west of Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. A worldwide increase in wheat prices after bad harvests in Russia is forcing French bakers to raise the price of that staple of life in France the baguette. Boulangeries around France have begun putting up signs warning their customers of an increase in the price of their favorite bread due to rising costs. (AP Photo/Michel Euler
Possible Rise in Baguette Prices Poses Crunch for the French
  • 27 October 2021
A hike in the cost of wheat is alarming French households who fear a possible...
  • AP News
Possible Rise in Baguette Prices Poses Crunch for the French
The 19th century Throne of King Ghezo, left, and Throne of King Glele, from Benin, are pictured at the Quai Branly–Jacques Chirac museum, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021 in Paris. n a decision with potential ramifications across European museums, France is displaying 26 looted colonial-era artifacts for one last time before returning them home to Benin. The wooden anthropomorphic statues, royal thrones and sacred altars were pilfered by the French army in the 19th century from Western Africa. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
129-Year Journey Nears End As France Returns Benin Treasures
  • 25 October 2021
France is displaying 26 looted colonial-era artifacts for one last time before returning them to...
  • AP News
129-Year Journey Nears End As France Returns Benin Treasures
Vineyards charred by a wildfire are pictured at the Chateau des Bertrands vineyard in Cannet-des-Maures, southern France, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Winemakers near the French Riviera are taking stock of the damage after a wildfire blazed through a once picturesque nature reserve near the French Riviera. The blaze left two people dead, more than 20 injured and forced some 10,000 people to be evacuated. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
Vintners Despair After French Wildfire Ravaged Grapevines
  • 3 September 2021
Rows of charred grapevines stand next to a vast expanse of steaming black vegetation devastated...
  • AP News
Vintners Despair After French Wildfire Ravaged Grapevines
Valerie Bacot, center, arrives with relatives at the Chalon-sur-Saone courthouse, central France, Thursday, June 24, 2021. Valerie Bacot is on trial in France for killing her husband after decades of sexual, physical and psychological abuse starting when she was an adolescent, in a case that has drawn broad attention and support for Bacot amid a national reckoning with long-held taboos around domestic abuse. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
French Woman Convicted of Killing ‘Monster’ Abuser, Set Free
  • 25 June 2021
The case had drawn broad attention and support for the defendant amid a national reckoning...
  • AP News
French Woman Convicted of Killing ‘Monster’ Abuser, Set Free
A medical worker tends to a patient affected with the COVID-19 in the Amiens Picardie hospital Tuesday, March 30, 2021 in Amiens, 160 km (100 miles) north of Paris. The number of patients in intensive care in France on Monday surpassed the worst point of the country's last coronavirus surge in the autumn of 2020, another indicator of how a renewed crush of infections is bearing down on French hospitals. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
France Announces 3-Week School Closure, Domestic Travel Ban
  • 31 March 2021
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a three-week nationwide school closure and a month-long domestic...
  • AP News
France Announces 3-Week School Closure, Domestic Travel Ban
Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! French Rooster Crows over Court Win
  • 5 September 2019
Maurice the rooster can keep crowing, a French court ruled, as it rejected a complaint...
  • AP News
Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! French Rooster Crows over Court Win
French Police Try to Catch Attack Suspect, Operation Ongoing
  • 13 December 2018
Police union officials identified the suspected assailant as Frenchman Cherif Chekatt, a 29-year-old with a...
  • AP News
French Police Try to Catch Attack Suspect, Operation Ongoing
France: Suspected Gunman Named, Had Long Police Record
  • 12 December 2018
A man who had been flagged as a possible extremist sprayed gunfire near the city...
  • AP News
France: Suspected Gunman Named, Had Long Police Record
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