France
‘Five minutes to midnight’: New-look America sets clock ticking for Europe
Amid a growing divide between the United States and Europe, the continent has sharply accelerated its efforts to address pressing defence needs.
- Rob Harris
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World of photos, March 1, 2025
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors
Visiting France’s most famous museum has become a nightmare
With huge numbers queuing for a glimpse of the Mona Lisa, visiting the Louvre is an ordeal. And now Australians will have to pay even more to visit.
- Abigail Buchanan
‘Why?’: I stayed in the city that France forgot and loved it
Limoges has cobbled streets lined with half-timbered houses, a fabulous cathedral, a beautiful food market and – unlike Paris, Lyon, Nice and Bordeaux – few tourists.
- Sue Williams
One dead in suspected terrorist attack in France
President Emmanuel Macron said there was no doubt the violence was an “Islamist terrorist attack”.
Former French surgeon on trial for raping or abusing 299 children
France is set to hold its largest-ever child sex abuse trial of a former surgeon who kept diaries to document decades of sexual violence against children.
The week that shook Europe: how Trump drastically reshaped global order
Donald Trump’s thunderous declarations have put Ukraine and its Western allies in a state of shock, questioning if America now stands with tyranny and extremism over the international democratic order.
- Rob Harris
‘Never observed before’: Wedding cake structure surrounding ultra-hot planet
It is so ferociously hot that the “exoplanet” features iron in the form of a gas in one layer of its atmosphere, while a jet stream moves at 70,000 km/h in another.
- Will Dunham
- Opinion
- Paris
I used social media to plan my Paris holiday. Result? Lots of queuing
Paris just closed its last tourist information office, citing social media as a better source. So I decided to put it to the test.
- Nick Duerden
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- Crime
Gisele Pelicot’s daughter believes she was probably raped, too
Caroline Darian’s life was upended when she learnt that her father had been drugging and raping her mother for years. Then she learnt that she was also a victim.
- Dimity Clancey and Natalie Clancy
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