A driver died after a car collided with a lorry stopped at a gilets jaunes protest in France . The accident happened late on Friday near the southern city of Perpignan at a motorway toll booth. How hi-vis yellow vest became symbol…

Aa Aa Protesters from the "gilets jaunes" (yellow vests) movement attempted to enter Euronews’ headquarters in Lyon, France, on Saturday afternoon. They told a Euronews journalist by telephone that they wanted to enter the building to "put right the lies spread by…

Police fired tear gas at gilets jaunes (yellow vests) demonstrators in Paris on Saturday but the turnout for round seven of the popular protests that have rocked France appeared low. Several hundred gathered at the BFM TV channel in the centre of…

Image Credits: Christopher Ciafro I was on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris when the first van filled with riot police came hurtling down the boulevard. Then, like the floodgates had been opened, several armored vehicles followed in a procession that extended…

Russian state television has spent much of the last two weeks playing up the chaos of France’s protests, continuing a trend of coverage that emerged long before troll factories and the modern era of “fake news”. Seven years ago, the Kremlin-backed TV…

Aa Aa Theresa May rejects calls for a second referendum UK Prime Minister Theresa May returned to the House of Commons after the Brussels summit and quelled calls by some MPs for a second referendum. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also tabled a…

Even if you weren’t paying close attention to the Gilets Jaunes protests, there were signs that all was not well in Paris last week: The screens of the ATMs on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré were shattered next to a Missoni store….

WHEN HISTORY comes to study the gilets jaunes (yellow jackets), two symbols will mark their cause. One is the high-visibility jacket that French law requires motorists to carry in case of accident, and is now a uniform of protest. The other is…

The French government is desperately trying to keep its exhausted police force onside following weeks of violent protests demanding economic reforms, improved living standards and the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron. On Wednesday, French officials met with police trade union leaders to…

In recent weeks, France has been seized by the gilets jaunes, an amorphous, leaderless protest group that consists, in part, of people like Édouard Louis’s family and former neighbors. In 2014, the French writer Édouard Louis published “ The End of Eddy…