France

Overtourism Explainer
FILE - Demonstrators march shouting slogans against the Formula 1 Barcelona Fan Festival in downtown Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, June 19, 2024, during residents protest against mass tourism. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

France

AP beats the competition reporting on a surprise Louvre strike and overtourism

JUNE 27, 2025

D-Day Veterans Return
D-Day veteran Jake Larson, a 102-year-old who is also a star on TikTok, with 1.2 million followers, greets schoolchildren during a visit Monday, June 2, 2025 in Colleville-sur-Mer, to the Normandy American Cemetery that is the final resting place for nearly 9,400 American war dead and which overlooks Omaha beach, one of the D-D-day invasion zones on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo/John Leicester)

D-Day

WWII vets are rock stars in France as they hand over the duty of remembering D-Day

JUNE 5, 2025

APTOPIX France Trans Pioneer
Marie-Pierre Pruvot known as Bambi, one of the first trans women in the world to become a public star, and a pioneer in global LGBTQ+ history, poses during an interview with The Associated Press, in Pantin, outside Paris, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

France

AP exclusively profiles Bambi on trans survival, fame, JK Rowling and the fight that isn’t over

MAY 30, 2025

France Sports Banning Headscarves
Former player Salimata Sylla poses before a women's basketball tournament where players can wear a headscarf, in Aubervilliers near Paris, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

France

AP’s deep, sensitive dive into France’s efforts to bar Muslim women in headscarves from sports

MAY 30, 2025

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen poses prior to an interview on the evening news broadcast of French TV channel TF1, after a French court convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years, Monday, March 31, 2025, in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris. (Thomas Samson, Pool via AP)
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen poses prior to an interview on the evening news broadcast of French TV channel TF1, after a French court convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years, Monday, March 31, 2025, in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris. (Thomas Samson, Pool via AP)

France

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthquake

APRIL 1, 2025

FILE - Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc, Monday May 1, 2017, in Paris. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, File)
FILE - Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc, Monday May 1, 2017, in Paris. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, File)

Fatalities

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96

JAN. 7, 2025

France Far Right’s Rise
A couple watch bikers riding near Henin-Beaumont, northern France, Sunday, June 30, 2024. Several waves of industrial shutdowns have left unemployment levels above the national average, and 60% of the population earns so little it does not need to pay tax, according to data from France's national statistics agency.(AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Elections

Le Pen first had success in an ex-mining town. Her message there is now winning over French society

JULY 2, 2024

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This combination photo shows, from top left, clockwise, the scaffolding around the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral spire being removed from Jan. 24, 2024 to March 6, 2024. Scaffolding has enshrouded Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris since a 2019 fire destroyed its spire and roof and threatened to collapse the whole medieval structure. After an unprecedented international reconstruction effort, the scaffolding is at last starting to peel away. AP PHOTO / ALEXANDER TURNBULL

France

AP timelapse of newly built spire on Notre Dame Cathedral tops online views

MARCH 29, 2024

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Afghan migrant Ali Rezaie looks at a map on his phone as he and Sayed Hamza trek through the French-Italian Alps to reach a migrant refuge in Briancon, France, Dec. 12, 2021. When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August, some Afghans resolved to escape and embarked on forbidding journeys of thousands of kilometers to Europe. Like others, Rezaie’s odyssey through five countries carried him high into the French-Italian Alps, where he was pushing through knee-deep snow to evade border guards. (AP Photo / Daniel Cole)

Afghanistan

Only on AP: Exclusive coverage as Afghan migrants trek across Alps in winter

DEC. 31, 2021

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Coronavirus

With extraordinary access to a psychiatric unit, AP reveals pandemic’s toll on children’s mental health

MARCH 19, 2021

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Coronavirus

As cases peak, AP duo embeds in a French ICU for a 24-hours in the battle against COVID-19

NOV. 30, 2020

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Activism

As women take to the streets, an in-depth look at domestic violence in France

DEC. 2, 2019

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