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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 466

Thomas Adamson

Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc, in Paris, May 1, 2017. (Kamil Zihnioglu/AP)
January 7, 2025, 3:59 pm
French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, anti-immigrant firebrand, dies at 96
Polarizing figure, father of politician Marine Le Pen, belittled Holocaust gas chambers as ‘a detail in World War II history,’ railed against migrants and multiculturalism
By Thomas Adamson, Sylvie Corbet and Elaine Ganley
Voters make their choice in a voting booth in a voting station of Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris, June 19, 2022 (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
June 19, 2022, 1:06 pm
France goes to the polls again for vote that determines direction of Macron’s term
Voters are selecting the 577 members of the National Assembly; a strong showing from Jean-Luc Melenchon’s coalition could turn French president into a shackled second-term leader
By Thomas Adamson
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a television address, in Ciboure, southwestern France, March 16, 2020. (Bob Edme/AP)
March 16, 2020, 11:08 pm
France’s Macron tells public not to go out unless they really have to
In TV address, president says country is ‘at war’ with coronavirus; threatens to punish those who don’t obey orders to stay at home except when getting ‘bare essentials’
By Thomas Adamson, LORNE COOK and Samuel Petrequin
French-Polish director Roman Polanski looks on on stage after the preview of his last movie 'J'accuse' (An Officer and a Spy) in Paris, November 4, 2019. (Thomas SAMSON/AFP)
February 14, 2020, 10:52 pm
Full board of France’s Cesar film awards steps down over Polanski nominations
Decision comes two weeks before award ceremony; director has been fugitive from US for 4 decades over rape conviction
By Thomas Adamson
French inventor Franky Zapata lands near St. Margaret's beach, Dover after crossing the Channel on a flying board on August 4, 2019. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)
August 4, 2019, 5:25 pm
French hoverboard inventor flies over the English Channel
Looking like a superhero and propelled by power pack of kerosene, Franky Zapata completes 22-mile journey in 22 minutes
By Thomas Adamson and JASON PARKINSON
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Britain's Director General for Political Affairs at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Richard Moore, Italy's Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi, US Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, from left to right, walk for a group photo on the second day of a G7 meeting at ministerial level in Dinard, Brittany, April 6, 2019. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
April 6, 2019, 11:26 pm
G7 statement acknowledges ‘clear differences’ on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Foreign ministers omit reference to two-state solution in document issued at end of meeting in France after an ‘exchange of views’
By Thomas Adamson
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a speech at the the Paris Peace Forum at the Villette Conference Hall in Paris on November 11, 2018. (Yoan Valat/AFP)
November 12, 2018, 3:18 pm
Trudeau says Canadian intelligence has heard tapes of Khashoggi killing
PM is first leader to acknowledge receiving recordings from Turkey documenting murder of dissident Saudi journalist
By Thomas Adamson
In this file photo from Nov. 1918, the German and French delegations speak as they wait in Rethondes for the start of the train to the Armistice conference in the Forest of Compiegne, France (AP Photo, File)
November 8, 2018, 4:06 pm
100 years later, Merkel to visit French site where WWI armistice was signed
Joined by Macron, German leader will be first chancellor to visit the location of the ‘Wagon of Compiegne’ train car since Hitler used it to stage France’s surrender in 1940
By Thomas Adamson
Director Woody Allen poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Cafe Society, at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 11, 2016. (AP/Thibault Camus)
February 3, 2018, 6:55 pm
French film distributor comes to Woody Allen’s defense amid sexual abuse claims
The head of Mars Films calls renewed allegations by Allen’s adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, ‘shameless opportunism’
By Thomas Adamson
In this photo taken on December 5, 2017, French Nazi hunters Serge Klarsfeld, (l) and his wife Beate look at the Wall of Names at the Shoah Memorial in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
December 7, 2017, 4:09 pm
Little-known story of famed Nazi hunters shown in Paris
Exhibition shows other sides of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, whose efforts brought down ‘Butcher of Lyon’ Klaus Barbie
By Thomas Adamson
Activist holding a banner reading: "For him impunity, for her a life sentence" during a protest in Paris, November 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
November 19, 2017, 5:00 pm
Bardot or de Beauvoir? France in bind over Weinstein fallout
As allegations of sexual misconduct against powerful men continue to mount, France struggles to define where seduction ends and sexual harassment begins
By Thomas Adamson
Former French culture minister Audrey Azoulay (R) stands with outgoing UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on November 10, 2017 after UNESCO member states approved her nomination to head of the cultural agency. (Eric Feferberg/AFP)
November 10, 2017, 10:38 pm
New UNESCO chief says US ’empty chair’ can’t last, reaches out to Israel
Audrey Azoulay, formally confirmed in her post, says ‘multilateral dialogue’ is ‘as true for Israel as it is for other countries’
By Thomas Adamson
US First Lady Melania Trump (L) visits with patients at the Necker Hospital in Paris, on July 13, 2017. (AFP Photo/Martin Bureau)
July 13, 2017, 7:25 pm
Melania Trump takes her own path in Paris visit
While US president meets with Macron, first lady visits children’s hospital, later set to tour Notre Dame and Seine River
By Thomas Adamson
A French riot police officer carries flowers given to him by a demonstrator, in Paris, Saturday, April 22, 2017, a day before the country begins its two-round presidential election. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
April 23, 2017, 5:47 am
Security tight as France goes to the polls in presidential vote
50,000 police, 7,000 soldiers safeguarding Sunday’s election, with terrorism and a lackluster economy topping voters’ concerns
By Thomas Adamson
French presidential election candidates, right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party Francois Fillon, En Marche! movement Emmanuel Macron, far-left coalition La France insoumise Jean-Luc Melenchon, far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen, and left-wing French Socialist (PS) party Benoit Hamon, pose before a debate organised by the French private TV channel TF1 on March 20, 2017 in Aubervilliers, outside Paris. (AFP/Pool/Eliot Blondet)
April 22, 2017, 8:22 pm
Voting in France’s unpredictable presidential race starts in overseas territories
Le Pen and Macron in the lead, but result largely in the hands of the one-in-three voters still undecided
By Thomas Adamson
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