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FILE – Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc, Monday May 1, 2017, in Paris. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, File)

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96

January 7, 2025 at 7:12 a.m.

The founder of France鈥檚 far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation.

FILE- In this May 19, 2019 file photo, French actor Alain Delon poses for photographers at the photo call for his honorary Palme D’Or award at the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France. Alain Delon, the internationally acclaimed French actor who embodied both the bad guy and the policeman and made hearts throb around the world, has died at age 88, French media reported. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP, File)

Alain Delon dies: French actor and heartthrob was 88

August 18, 2024 at 11:46 a.m.

Alain Delon, the internationally acclaimed French actor who embodied both the bad guy and the policeman and made hearts throb around the world, died at age 88, French media reported.

Ukraine’s Mikhail Reva poses next to one of his art pieces, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 in Paris. From within the debris of Russia’s war, Ukraine’s most famous sculptor was compelled to take a dark artistic pivot and express his homeland’s suffering the day his own country house was ravaged by a Russian strike. (AP Photo/Thomas Adamson

Ukraine鈥檚 most famous sculptor turns war debris into art, expressing the inexpressible

February 23, 2024 at 3:22 p.m.

From within the debris of Russia’s war, Ukraine’s most famous sculptor was compelled to make a dark artistic pivot the day his own country house was ravaged by a Russian...

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Iconic French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard dead at 91

September 13, 2022 at 5:43 a.m.

Jean-Luc Godard, the ingenious “enfant terrible” of the French New Wave who revolutionized popular cinema in 1960 with his first big endeavor, “Breathless,” and stood for years as one of...

Hypocrisy gone viral? Officials set bad COVID-19 examples.

May 27, 2020 at 5:24 a.m.

鈥淒o as I say, but not as I do鈥� was the message many British saw in the behavior of Prime Minister Boris Johnson鈥檚 key aide, who traveled hundreds of miles...

Notre Dame fire wakes the world up to dangers of lead dust

December 22, 2019 at 1:02 p.m.

It took a blaze that nearly destroyed Paris’ most famous cathedral to reveal a gap in global safety regulations for lead, a toxic building material found across many historic cities.

Notre Dame鈥檚 treasures spared from blaze after frantic rescue

April 16, 2019 at 10:34 a.m.

An inferno that raged through Notre Dame Cathedral for more than 12 hours destroyed its spire and its roof but spared its twin medieval bell towers, and a frantic rescue...

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Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel’s iconic couturier, has died

February 19, 2019 at 5:39 a.m.

Chanel's iconic couturier, Karl Lagerfeld, whose accomplished designs as well as trademark white ponytail, high starched collars and dark enigmatic glasses dominated high fashion for the past 50 years, has...

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Extremist slain, 3 dead after rampage in southern France

March 23, 2018 at 9:53 p.m.

A gun-wielding extremist went on a rampage Friday in a quiet corner of southern France, killing three people as he hijacked a car, opened fire on police and took hostages...

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Paris hosts major climate summit — and it’s all about Trump

December 12, 2017 at 10:24 p.m.

The global climate summit in Paris was designed to bypass Donald Trump, but the U.S. president ended up playing a starring role.

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