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France Expands Bombing Campaign Against ISIS into Syria

Brendan O'Connor · 09/27/15 10:00AM

On Sunday, French President Francois Hollande said that six of his country’s jet fighters had targeted and destroyed an Islamic State training camp in eastern Syria, the Associated Press reports. The airstrikes were France’s first in Syria.

Taylor Berman · 08/25/15 12:02PM

Three people—a man, a woman, and a young child—were reportedly killed this afternoon during a shooting in Roye, France. Four others, including the gunman and two police officers, were reportedly injured.

Oh, Shit: More Than 1,000 Runners Get Diarrhea After Mud Day Event 

Jay Hathaway · 06/29/15 05:05PM

Last year, the Washington Post reported that participating in trendy tough-guy mud runs often comes with a painful case of abdominal cramps and diarrhea brought on by literally eating shit—fecal bacteria mixed in with the mud. More than a thousand people are suffering those ill effects after a popular French event last week. (Not so tough now, are you?)

Nothing But Love For the Couple Found Fucking on the Cannes Red Carpet

Dayna Evans · 06/24/15 11:10AM

France: home of good cheese, strong wine, some other shit, and an advertising festival named Cannes Lions. Early Tuesday, two randy festival-attendees were overcome by their love of creativity, advertising, and their love for each other—some might call it joie de vivre—that they took to fucking on the red carpet in clear view of a late night rooftop bash above them.

Bar Owner Charged With Manslaughter for Letting Customer Take 56 Shots

Jay Hathaway · 05/06/15 04:00PM

The owner of a French bar is facing charges of “manslaughter by willful neglect” after a patron took 56 shots of liquor in one night to break the establishment’s posted record. The 57-year-old drinking champ later died at home of a heart attack, and his daughter says the bar owner had been cheering him on.