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Champagne barrels line the deep, cool cellars of Charles Fourny's estate in Vertus, France. Fourny says President Trump's impending tariffs has taken away his trust in the U.S. market.

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Champagne-makers mull if it's time to move on from the U.S. market

Amid uncertainty around President Trump's tariffs, some Champagne-makers say they're losing trust in the U.S. market.

May 13, 2025
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  • Rebecca Rosman
Actor Gerard Depardieu arrives on March 24, 2025, in Paris to face trial for the alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set in 2021.

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  • Europe

Gérard Depardieu found guilty of sexual assault in landmark French trial

A French court on Tuesday found Gérard Depardieu guilty of sexually assaulting two women on a film set, sentencing the French film icon to an 18-month suspended prison term.

May 13, 2025
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  • Rebecca Rosman
French actor Gérard Depardieu leaves for a break during his trial for the alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set in 2021.

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  • Europe

Gérard Depardieu faces verdict in sexual assault trial seen as #MeToo test

Women's rights advocates say the case is about whether France's justice system is truly ready to reckon with sexual violence.

May 12, 2025
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  • Rebecca Rosman
Spectators roam inside the Madrid Open tennis tournament venue during a general blackout in Madrid on April 28.

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  • World

Spain and Portugal begin recovering from a massive blackout. Here's what to know

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez said a nationwide blackout of this scale had never happened before in Spain. He added that the underlying cause remains unclear.

April 29, 2025
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  • Juliana Kim

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What connects Fredéric Chopin, Marcel Proust and Jim Morrison? A final resting place

The Secret Life of a Cemetery is a paean to the renowned Parisian cemetery, Père Lachaise. There, 10,000 visitors a day seek the graves of some 4,500 notable figures.

April 28, 2025
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  • Heller McAlpin
Secretary of State Marco Rubio before a meeting with the French foreign minister in Paris on Thursday to discuss steps toward a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Trump may abandon Ukraine peace talks 'within days,' Rubio warns

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that the U.S. would walk away from efforts to broker a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine if progress isn't made within days.

April 18, 2025
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
French President Emmanuel Macron (left) shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio next to special envoy Steve Witkoff (center) and France's foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, before a meeting at the Élysée presidential palace in Paris on Thursday.

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  • Europe

Rubio leads a U.S. team for Paris talks as Macron seeks unity on Ukraine

France hosted top diplomats from the U.S., Germany, the U.K. and Ukraine to discuss efforts toward a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

April 17, 2025
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  • Eleanor Beardsley and
  • Joanna Kakissis
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, left, reacts with Jordan Bardella during the French far-right party national rally near the parliament in Paris on Sunday.

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  • Europe

Le Pen supporters rally in Paris, turning a protest into a populist show of force

Thousands of supporters gathered near the tomb of Napoleon for what was billed as a protest — but observers said it had all the markings of a campaign rally.

April 07, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen arrives at a Paris court expected to deliver a verdict in an embezzlement case that could shake up French politics and derail far-right leader Marine Le Pen's career Monday, March 31, 2025 in Paris.

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  • Europe

French court bars far-right leader Marine Le Pen from public office for embezzlement

A French court found Marine Le Pen guilty on Monday in an embezzlement case and barred her from seeking public office for five years, with immediate effect. Le Pen's lawyer said she would appeal.

March 31, 2025
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  • Rebecca Rosman
From left: Liberty Enlightening the World, Bill Skarsgård, Sunita Williams (before her ISS sojourn).

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What's trending in the world of soap operas? Find out in the quiz

This week also saw a highly undramatic object cause drama and the happily undramatic return of the two NASA astronauts who had an unexpected stay on the International Space Station.

March 21, 2025
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  • Holly J. Morris
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the U.S. in the 1880s, celebrating their friendship and the anniversary of U.S. independence.

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  • Politics

Does the U.S. deserve the Statue of Liberty? Not anymore, one French politician says

A French politician suggested the two countries no longer share the values that inspired the gift more than a century ago. The White House sharply rejected his request, which he described as symbolic.

March 18, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
Activists hold posters during a women's rights demonstration, Dec. 14, 2024 in Avignon, southern France, where the trial of dozens of men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and rendered unconscious by her husband is taking place.

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  • World

A French surgeon is on trial accused of raping or abusing 299 people, mostly children

The trial comes as French activists are pushing to lift taboos that surround sexual abuse. The most prominent case was that of Gisèle Pélicot, who was raped by her now ex-husband and dozens of others.

February 24, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
The European Court of Human Rights, located in Strasbourg, eastern France, said the French woman should not be at blame for her divorce because she refused sexual relations with her husband.

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  • World

French woman who refused sex with husband not to blame for divorce, rights court says

Europe's top human rights court ruled the woman's right to respect for private and family life had been violated when French courts found her solely at fault for her divorce because she withheld sex.

January 24, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc in Paris in 2017

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  • Europe

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French fiery far-right leader, dies at 96

Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. But the nativist ideas that propelled his popularity remain ascendant in today's France and beyond.

January 07, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Gisèle Pelicot arrives at the courthouse in Avignon, France, on Dec. 19, 2024, in advance of the verdict being read out from the trial of her ex-husband and more than four dozen other men who were found guilty of aggravated rape against Gisèle Pelicot.

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  • Europe

Dozens of men are found guilty of raping a woman in France who was drugged to sleep

A French court found dozens of men guilty of raping a woman whose then-husband had drugged her unconscious over the course of a decade. The court sentenced the husband to a maximum 20 years in prison.

December 19, 2024
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
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