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Cockpit Voice Recorder Recovered From Crashed Germanwings Flight
Brendan O'Connor · 03/24/15 11:08PMGermanwings Flight Crashes in French Alps, 150 Presumed Dead
Aleksander Chan · 03/24/15 07:02AMA Germanwings flight crashed in the French Alps Tuesday, the French civil aviation authority has confirmed. The Dusseldorf-bound plane, an Airbus 320, was carrying 144 passengers, four crew members, and two pilots. French President François Hollande told reporters that "there might not be any survivors."
France Charges 2 Suspected of Ties to January Terror Attacks
Brendan O'Connor · 03/14/15 04:47PMFrench Authorities Bust Up YOGURT CARTEL
Hamilton Nolan · 03/12/15 11:48AMWorld's Best Pig Squealer Silences Haters With Sixth Consecutive Title
Andy Cush · 02/27/15 11:02AMOur boy Nono has done it again! With God-given glottal control and an uncompromising devotion to his craft, the world's greatest pig squealer took home his sixth consecutive championship title at the Salon de l'Agriculture at Paris' Porte de Versailles this month. The time for haters is over. Three cheers for Nono!
Paris Reckons With Plan to Connect Itself to Suburbs
Dayna Evans · 02/13/15 02:45PMLong before the Charlie Hebdo shootings last month, Paris struggled with its identity. But the attacks have spurred uncomfortable conversations about the city's large—and often segregated—population of immigrants. According to the New York Times, one step forward is new plan that will be undertaken in the following year to begin connecting the city proper to its remote suburbs.
France's Daily Show Caught Fox News in a Lie About Muslim "No-Go Zones"
Jay Hathaway · 01/20/15 10:40AMFox News Apologizes for Impressively Dumb and Wrong Islam Facts
Hudson Hongo · 01/18/15 01:30PMDid you know there are "actually Muslim religious police" in London and some English cities are "totally Muslim" "no-go-zones" where "where non-Muslims just simply don't go in"? Neither did England until last Sunday, when resident Fox News "terrorism expert" Steve Emerson dropped these ignorance bombs on live television.
Four Shot at Anti-Charlie Hebdo Protest in Pakistan
Dayna Evans · 01/16/15 02:35PMJohn Kerry and President of France Make Up with Public, Erotic Embrace
Aleksander Chan · 01/16/15 11:36AMThe relationship between John Kerry, the Secretary of State of the United States of America, and Francois Hollande, the president of France, has been on the rocks since Kerry stood up Hollande at the Je Suis Charlie rally in Paris last weekend. But in a grandly Richard-Curtisian gesture, Kerry flew to Paris today to make things right. This deeply intimate hug is their touching reunion.
Police Arrest Dozens Across Europe in Anti-Terrorism Sweep
Aleksander Chan · 01/16/15 09:09AMNo One Wants the Bodies of the Dead French Terrorists
Gabrielle Bluestone · 01/15/15 10:00PMFrance Arrests Comedian for Facebook "Joke" a Week After Charlie Attack
Taylor Berman · 01/14/15 01:45PMCharlie Hebdo Cartoonist: "I Honestly Didn't Know If I Could Still Draw"
Taylor Berman · 01/13/15 11:20AMNext Charlie Hebdo Issue Will Feature Muhammad Cartoons
Taylor Berman · 01/12/15 10:49AM"Liberte! Charlie!": Unity March Draws 1.3 Million in Paris
Hudson Hongo · 01/11/15 10:45AMAfter a string of deadly terror attacks that began with Wednesday's Charlie Hebdo shooting, as many as a million people swarmed the streets of Paris today for a unity rally that also drew more than 40 world leaders, including Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestine's Mahmoud Abbas, the U.K.'s David Cameron and Angela Merkel of Germany.
Security Forces Searching for Ex-Girlfriend of French Gunman
Brendan O'Connor · 01/10/15 02:30PMHarrowing Video Shows Police Storming Paris Market, Shooting Gunman
Taylor Berman · 01/09/15 04:37PMThis afternoon France 2 released video of police storming the kosher supermarket in eastern Paris where Amedy Coulibaly had taken 14 people hostage. The video shows several dozen police firing into the store and tossing flash grenades until Couibaly, who earlier in the week allegedly killed a Paris police officer, runs out. The video pauses before Couibaly is killed, but France 2 reports he was shot 60 times. Seconds later, the video resumes and terrified hostages are seen fleeing the market.