The French government has tapped the son of famous Nazi-hunters to help decide the fate of a contentious law that seeks to interpret the country’s colonial history. Arno Klarsfeld, 39, seems to ...

The Algerian Senate toned down some of the original provisions in the bill, such as a call for apologies and reparations from France.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parliament members vote on a bill seeking to criminalize France's colonisation, considering it a "state crime," and demanding that ...

It’s exhilarating to watch a thief infiltrate the world’s largest museum with brains, heart and grit — fans of Lupin know the feeling. But witnessing it happen in real life, with much less toil, is ...

NOUMEA, New Caledonia (AP) — New Caledonia has marked the anniversary of its French colonization with tight security and simmering tensions between the pro-independence Indigenous Kanak people and the ...

The fruit and vegetable market at the Bastille market in the old city of Oran, Algeria, on November 5, 2025. (Billel Bensalem / APP NurPhoto via AFP) ALGIERS, Algeria (AFP) — Algeria’s Parliament ...

To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Legislators in Algeria voted to declare France’s colonization of the North African country a crime, approving a law that calls for restitution of property taken by France ...