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Blaming inequality for French terror attacks is facile and dangerous
France is experiencing one of the most horrifying and severe bouts of terrorism since World War II. Given how often French streets have been targeted by terrorists in the past year, it’s easy to see...
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Secular France is no stranger to interfaith dialogue – now it is more vital...
Recent terror attacks in France combined with increasing antisemitism and Islamophobia have stirred up centuries-old debates about the relationship between the state and religion. Far from inhabiting...
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The new normal: one year since terror attacks, Paris is a city afraid and...
ElPadawan/Flickr, CC BY-SAIt has been one year since the attacks on November 13, 2015 chilled all Parisians – Muslim, Christian, Jewish and secular alike – to the core. In coordinated attacks on a...
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The security problems now facing Emmanuel Macron, France’s new president
Emmanuel Macron emerged from one of the most brutal and eventful election campaigns in recent European history as France’s next president. This was a campaign in which France’s domestic security, in...
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Grenfell Tower fire tragedy reveals ugly flaws of regeneration agenda
I grew up in social housing. It provided a stable and secure (albeit overcrowded and cold) home for my family, for life. As fire tore through Grenfell Tower, just 500 metres from where I was staying in...
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L'incendie de la tour Grenfell révèle les failles des politiques de...
J’ai grandi dans un logement social et celui-ci, bien qu’il ait été surpeuplé et froid, a permis à ma famille de disposer d’un foyer durable et garanti à vie.L’incendie de la tour Grenfell à Londres a...
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Grenfell Tower: how Twitter users fought off fake news to honour Muslim heroes
For those who were present in West London on June 14, 2017, it’s a day they will never forget. Residents awoke to the smell of fire and the sound of helicopters, while exhausted, blackened firefighters...
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Incendie de la tour Grenfell à Londres : quand Twitter réfute fake news et...
Ceux qui étaient présents dans l’ouest londonien le 14 juin 2017 ne l’oublieront jamais. Il y a un an et une semaine, les résidents de ce quartier cosmopolite de la capitale anglaise ont en effet été...
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Success of French football team masks underlying tensions over race and class
The French football team has won the 2018 World Cup, 20 years after it triumphed on home soil in 1998. “Les Bleus”, as they’re called, are back in the nation’s good books, celebrated for their...
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Débat : De Zizou à Mbappé, la victoire masque le spectre du racisme
La France entière célèbre le retour de ses champions, unie sous le drapeau tricolore depuis que l’équipe nationale a vaincu 4-2 la Croatie lors d’une finale haletante.Le pays en liesse semble presque...
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Four experts investigate how the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory began
Shutterstock/InkDropIn times of crisis conspiracy theories can spread as fast as a virus. As the coronavirus pandemic tightened its grip on a world which struggled to comprehend the enormity of the...
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Ukraine: why Emmanuel Macron’s open line to Moscow has not delivered the...
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has taken a big gamble in putting himself forward as Europe’s man in Moscow (at least virtually) during the crisis in Ukraine. He has kept an open dialogue with...
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Emmanuel Macron reelected: four key themes for his second term as president
Emmanuel Macron has fended off the challenge from Marine Le Pen to secure a second term as president of France after taking 58.2% of the vote in the second round of the national election. He is one of...
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Emmanuel Macron’s state visit with Joe Biden: key takeaways as relations warm...
Emmanuel Macron has just completed the first major state visit to the US since the pandemic. As central pillars of Nato and the broader western, democratic alliance, France and the US are historic...
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Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron: beyond the bromance, what was discussed at...
The theatricality of the warmth on show between British prime minister Rishi Sunak and French president Emmanuel Macron during their summit in Paris should not detract from how important it is that...
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France riots: when police shot a teenager dead, a rumbling pressure cooker...
Riots broke out in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, following the lethal police shooting of a 17-year-old boy named as Nahel M. An investigation into his death is ongoing but the situation has already...
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Una olla a presión llamada Francia
Disturbios en la prefectura de Nanterre durante una manifestación en homenaje a Nahel M. PVNF / ShutterstockSea cual sea la conclusión de la investigación por el disparo mortal de la policía a un joven...
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French prison break: violent scenes are a symptom of authorities’ struggle...
A manhunt is underway in France after armed men held up a prison van to break out convicted criminal Mohamed Amra, nicknamed “the fly” (La mouche). They killed two offers and injured several more in...
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How the French far-right rose to prominence
European politics was shaken by a surge in support for the far-right and far-left in the first round of France’s legislative elections on June 30. Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party won 33% of the...
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