ANNE HIDALGO

France’s president proves he was no accident of history, but faces a much tougher runoff against the far-right.

It was “la Vie en Rose” for Valentino who headlined Sunday’s segment of Paris Fashion Week with a daring co-ed pink collection — as VIP guests including Lewis Hamilton and Zendaya had to negotiate arrivals during a car-free day in the capital’s center.

France’s dueling far-right presidential candidates have held back-to-back campaign rallies.

The French left is running divided and weakened ahead of this year's presidential vote in April.

Far-left French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon is seeking to reinvigorate his flagging campaign for April’s election with an unusual rally.

A progressive icon from the South American territory of French Guiana has joined the race for France’s presidential election in April.

The conservative candidate in France's presidential race says she will adapt her campaign to coronavirus conditions, focusing on social media and staging small gatherings with voters instead of big rallies.

French President Macron has vowed to work to make Europe “more powerful” as France’s turn in the European Union’s rotating six-month presidency starts Jan. 1 and overlaps with the country’s presidential election.

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into violence that erupted at the first official campaign rally of a far-right candidate who has shaken up France’s presidential race.

Some anti-racist activists were beaten up as far-right former French TV pundit Eric Zemmour held his first campaign rally near Paris.

Valérie Pécresse, the head the Paris region and a former conservative minister, has been chosen to run in France’s presidential race for The Republicans party.

Polls project that Marine Le Pen, from the right-wing Le Rassemblement National party, will challenge Macron in the second round of voting.

Two French politicians have kicked off their presidential campaigns to become France’s first female leader in next year’s spring election.

The speed limit for most of Paris is now 30 kilometers per hour (less than 19 miles per hour).

Thickets of restrictions at the pandemic-hit Tokyo Games severely crimped the experience for Olympians.

A celebration in Paris debuted the Olympic flag flying from the Eiffel Tower as the French city prepares to host the 2024 summer Olympic games.

Authorities in Paris evicted hundreds of crack cocaine users from a city park after an experiment to give drug addicts use of the space ended following weeks of protests from irate locals. Residents of the northern 18th arrondissement, one of the poorest in Paris, have protested every week since May. Violence has been a problem, with locals setting off explosives and a two-year-old child hit by a drug user. In the early hours of Wednesday, police officers and city officials used teargas to throw

Environmentally friendly San Francisco closed miles of streets to automobiles during the pandemic so that people could exercise and socialize safely.

Paris — Mayor Anne Hidalgo has confirmed that ambitious plans to transform Paris' Champs-Élysées, the iconic avenue in the heart of the French capital, are still on the table. An artist's impression of the redesigned Arc de Triomphe, at the end of Paris' iconic Champs-Élysées avenue, prepared by architects PCA-Stream under commission by the Paris mayor's office. Even the gardens at the end, near the Place de la Concorde, look underused and uninviting. The Champs-Élysées Committee of local business leaders has been pushing for a revamp for several years. An artist's impression from architects PCA-Stream shows the plan to remake Paris' central Champs-Élysées avenue as a pedestrian friendly green space, with far less traffic than the current eight-lane layout.

Paris — Paris city hall has been fined 90,000 euros ($109,408) for having appointed too many women to top positions in 2018, in breach of a law aimed at ensuring gender balance. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo mocked the fine as "unfair" and "absurd" on Tuesday during a meeting of the city council. In 2018, 11 women and 5 men — who represent just over 30% — were appointed to top positions in the Paris city hall, leading the Civil Service Ministry to impose the fine. "The management of the city hall has, all of a sudden, become far too feminist." Montchalin vowed that the fine collected from Paris city hall – which still applies as the 2018 hiring was done before the law was changed – would be spent on "concrete actions" to improve gender parity in the country.

A passer-by takes a selfie with an extra newspaper reporting on President-elect Joe Biden's win in the U.S. presidential election, in Tokyo Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. Other leaders who sent congratulations included German Chancellor Angela Merkel, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. Prime Minister Janez Jansa was the only world leader who congratulated Trump even before all the votes were counted, and showed support after Biden’s win was announced. Many people, particularly in nations with turbulent politics, took Biden's win as improving the outlook for respect of democracy. In Egypt, where the government is cracking down on dissent, pro-democracy activists welcomed Biden’s win.

Much of the world Saturday welcomed the election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States after several suspenseful days of vote counting. Dozens of world leaders rushed to congratulate Biden and running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, not bothering to wait for President Trump to concede. “I am looking forward to working with President Biden in the future. As supportive of Trump as they may have been, it is in their strategic interest to be cordial to Biden. Many Chinese supporters of Trump are suspicious of Biden because of rumors that he is friendlier with China’s Communist Party, Qi said.

The French capital has seen a surge in Covid-19 cases and was recently designated a "red zone," which imposes set of restrictions on public gatherings and the sale of alcohol. LONDON — Paris and its surrounding suburbs have been put on "maximum alert" Monday as coronavirus cases surge in the city. Outlining specific measures on Monday, Paris' police chief Didier Lallement said that from Tuesday, all bars will not be allowed to open. Speaking alongside the police chief Monday, Paris' Mayor Anne Hidalgo said "we will be vigilant to get out of this situation." Paris has been placed on maximum alert as the Covid-19 incidence rate has exceeded 250 infections per 100,000 among the general public.

From the left, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, anti-terrorism state prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard , and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin answer reporters after a knife attack near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Friday Sept. 25, 2020 in Paris. French terrorism authorities are investigating a stabbing of two people outside the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and two suspects have been arrested, authorities said. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)PARIS – The chief suspect in a double stabbing in Paris told investigators he acted out of anger over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad recently republished by the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, France's counterterrorism prosecutor said Tuesday. The two brothers involved in the 2015 attack targeted Charlie Hebdo because they believed the newspaper blasphemed Islam by publishing the same Muhammad caricatures. Charlie Hebdo lost 12 employees in an al-Qaida attack in 2015 by French-born extremists who had criticized the prophet cartoons.