ALEX TURNBULL

French wine grower David Levasseur opens a bottle of champagne in his wine making facility in Cuchery, eastern France, Monday, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Trump’s 200% tariff threat would be ‘a real disaster’ for Europe’s wine industry
The number 200 is top of mind across wine country in France, Italy and Spain, Europe’s top producers of wine. That’s because last week, U.S.
 
President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
France’s prime minister tears into Trump’s attack on Zelenskyy as a staggering show of ‘brutality’
France’s prime minister has torn into U.S. President Donald Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by calling it a staggering show of “brutality” that aimed to humiliate Ukraine’s leader.
 
French baker Arnaud Delmontel talks about butter, its price and quality in his bakery in Paris, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024 as butter has shot up in price across Europe in recent months, adding more pain to consumers this holiday season after years of inflation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine.(AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Rising butter prices give European consumers and bakers a bad taste
Creamy, delectable – and pricey. Butter has shot up in price across the European Union in recent months, forcing pastry chefs and residents to consider substituting margarine.
 
Mathieu Kassovitz poses after an interview with Associated Press, in Tremblay-en-France, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
French cult film ‘La Haine’ returns as hip-hop musical with tensions persisting in poor suburbs
The critically acclaimed French film “La Haine” is being adapted into a musical show nearly three decades after becoming a classic. It’s still about life in the impoverished French housing projects. The title remains the same.
 
Shannon Seban, a legislative election candidate for the camp of President Emmanuel Macron, campaigns, in the Paris suburb of Ivry-sur-Seine, Tuesday June 25, 2024. Antisemitism has surged as a hot-button issue in France's high-stakes legislative election campaign. On the outskirts of Paris, a candidate who is Jewish is feeling the heat of hatred. Campaigning for the camp of President Emmanuel Macron, Shannon Seban is accompanied by bodyguards as she canvasses for votes, because her party is concerned for her safety. (AP Photo/John Leicester)
In France’s high-stakes legislative election, a Jewish candidate faces and fights hate and division
Antisemitism has surged as a hot-button issue in France’s high-stakes legislative election campaign. On the outskirts of Paris, a candidate who is Jewish is feeling the heat of hatred.
 
FILE - In this photo released on Nov. 9, 2019 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks in Damascus, Syria. The Paris appeals court is expected to decide on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, whether to uphold an arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad that France issued last year for alleged complicity in war crimes during Syria's civil war. (SANA via AP, File)
Paris court upholds validity of France’s arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad
The Paris appeals court has ruled that an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad issued by France for alleged complicity in war crimes during Syria’s civil war is valid and remains in place.
 
FILE - Smoke rises during protests in Noumea, New Caledonia, Wednesday May 15, 2024. France has imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia. The French prosecutor for New Caledonia says there's been another shooting death in the riot-hit French Pacific territory, with a police officer taken into custody after using their firearm Friday May 24, 2024 when they were set upon by a group of about 15 people. It comes a day after French President Emmanuel Macron made an emergency round-trip from Paris to de-escalate the violence in New Caledonia where Indigenous Kanak people have long sought independence from France. (AP Photo/Nicolas Job, File)
A police officer is held in deadly shooting in riot-hit New Caledonia after Macron pushes for calm
The French prosecutor for riot-hit New Caledonia says a police officer has shot and killed a man after being set upon by a group of about 15 people.
 
Smoke rises during protests in Noumea, New Caledonia, Wednesday May 15, 2024. France has imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia. The measures imposed on Wednesday for at least 12 days boost security forces' powers to quell deadly unrest that has left four people dead, erupting after protests over voting reforms. (AP Photo/Nicolas Job)
Violence rages in New Caledonia as France rushes emergency reinforcements to its Pacific territory
Violence is raging across New Caledonia for the third consecutive day. France has imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory.
 
FILE - Argentina's soccer star Diego Maradona, left, and West German goalkeeper Harald Schumacher are holding their World Cup Soccer Ball awards while posing with two young soccer players during the Soccer Golden Shoe Award ceremony held in Paris, France, on Nov. 13, 1986. A trophy won by the late Diego Maradona for the best player at the 1986 World Cup that had mysterioulsy disappeared has resurfaced. It will be auctioned in Paris next month, the Aguttes house said on Tuesday May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Lipchitz, File)
AP exclusive: Maradona heirs say his Golden Ball trophy was stolen. They want to stop its auction
Diego Maradona’s heirs want to stop the auction of a trophy he was awarded after the 1986 World Cup won by Argentina. It had been missing for decades and recently resurfaced.
 
Supporters of the Lebanese Communist party take a selfie, as they march during a demonstration to mark International Labor Day or May Day, in Beirut, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Despite the tense situation and ongoing clashes on Lebanon's border with Israel over the past seven months, hundreds of protesters marched through Beirut's streets to mark International Workers' Day. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Pro-Palestinian banners. Blazing Olympic rings. Workers’ May Day rallies confront turbulent times
Workers and activists around the world are marking May Day with largely peaceful rallies against rising prices and calling for greater rights. Pro-Palestinian sentiments are also on display.
 
Demonstrators demanding the boycott of Israel during Olympic Games demonstrate outside the Paris Olympic organizing committee headquarters, Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in Saint-Denis, outside Paris. About 300 pro-Palestinian demonstrators took part on the protest. (AP Photo/Alexander Turnbull)
Pro-Palestinian protesters call on Olympic officials to limit Israel’s participation in Paris Games
Pro-Palestinian protesters have called on Olympic officials to limit Israel’s participation at the Summer Games in the French capital.
 
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, right, and Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron address the media during a press conference in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. Britain and France are reiterating their determination that Russia's invasion of Ukraine must end in failure. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
The UK and France reiterate that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine must end in failure as US aid falters
Britain and France are reiterating their determination that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine must end in failure. The two nations’ insistence was expressed Tuesday by their foreign ministers.
 
One of the signature broad, black hats that Napoléon wore when he ruled 19th century France and waged war in Europe is on display at Osenat's auction house in Fontainebleau, south of Paris, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. The hat is tipped to fetch more than half a million euros (dollars) at the auction Sunday of Napoleonic memorabilia patiently collected by a French industrialist. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
One of Napoleon’s signature bicorne hats on auction in France could fetch upwards of $650,000
One of the signature broad, black bicorne hats that Napoleon Bonaparte wore when he ruled 19th-century France and waged war in Europe is expected to fetch more than half a million euros (dollars) at auction.
 
A woman watches posters pasted by the UEJF (Union of Jewish French Students) Monday, Oct. 16, 2023 in Paris. The images across Paris show of Jewish missing persons held by Hamas in Gaza. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Jewish students plaster Paris walls with photos of French citizens believed held hostage by Hamas
France’s main Jewish students union has plastered walls around Paris with posters bearing the faces of French citizens believed to be held hostage by Hamas in their war with Israel.
 
Hillary Jackson, from New York, right, and Kristy Benner, from Los Angeles, pose outside the Saint-Andre hospital in Bordeaux, southwestern France, Thursday, Sept.14, 2023. Kristy Benner's partner Matt Jackson was riding an electric bike through Bordeaux wine country on vacation when he started feeling strange. Nine days later, he's on a breathing machine in a French ICU, unable to open his eyes, communicating only via notes on a whiteboard and infected with botulism. A 32-year-old woman died in France and eight other people remained hospitalized Thursday after an apparent botulism outbreak linked to homemade sardine preserves and the wine bar in Bordeaux. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia)
Botulism outbreak tied to sardines served in Bordeaux leaves 1 person dead and several hospitalized
Regional health officials in France say a 32-year-old woman is dead and a dozen people have been hospitalized after an apparent botulism outbreak.
 
Tourists pose for a selfie with the Eiffel Tower in background, Thursday, July 6, 2023 in Paris. French government officials met with representatives of the tourism industry to discuss repercussions of unrest sparked by the police killing of a 17-year-old boy on tourist activity and on France's international image. The shooting death of Nahel Merzouk, who was of north African descent, prompted nationwide anger over police tactics and entrenched discrimination against people in low-income neighborhoods around France where many trace their roots to former French colonies. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
French government paints a rosy picture for tourism despite unrest over the police killing of a teen
Tourists to France faced a new reality during an eruption of nationwide anger following the police killing of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk last week. Hotel owners cite a drop in bookings in some areas.
 
People run away during clashes with police in the center of Lyon, central France, Friday, June 30, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron urged parents Friday to keep teenagers at home and proposed restrictions on social media to quell rioting spreading across France over the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver. Writing on wall reads in French "Justice for Nahel" (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
Youths clash with French police, loot stores in 4th day of riots triggered by fatal police shooting
Young rioters clashed with police and looted stores across France Friday in a fourth day of violence triggered by the deadly police shooting of a teen, piling more pressure on President Emmanuel Macron after he appealed to parents to keep children off the streets and blamed social media for fueling
 
Police forces clash with youths in Nanterre, outside Paris, Thursday, June 29, 2023. The death of 17-year-old Nael by police during a traffic check Tuesday in the Paris suburb of Nanterre elicited nationwide concern and widespread messages of indignation and condolences. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said 1,200 police were deployed overnight and 2,000 would be out in force Wednesday in the Paris region and around other big cities to "maintain order." (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
France mobilizes tens of thousands of police to head off unrest after police fatally shot a teenager
France has mobilized tens of thousands of police officers in an effort to head off widespread urban rioting following the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old that shocked the nation.
 
Despite renewed strikes, France pushes on with pension plan
Women workers danced in protest and striking Eiffel Tower employees shuttered France’s most famed monument. But the government pushed ahead anyway with a divisive bill redesigning the national retirement system.
 
French protesters block Amazon sites over climate, jobs
Environmental activists have chained themselves to gates and turnstiles as they occupied an Amazon building near Paris. They demonstrators have accused the online company of destroying jobs and hurting the planet.
 
Police evacuate migrant families from Paris sidewalks
Police and city officials are evacuating hundreds of migrants who have been living on the streets of northern Paris for weeks, the latest of a string of attempts to find solutions for France’s migrants.
 
Muslim blasts extremists at Friday prayer with Christians
Muslims and Catholics joined in Friday prayers at the mosque in the Normandy town where an elderly priest was slain this week, with one imam chastising the extremists as non-Muslims who are “not part of civilization.”