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Paris Organising Committee of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games President Tony Estanguet gives a press conference, in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, France, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. "The French capital detailed plans for a Pride House that will celebrate LGBTQ people during the Olympics and Paralympics next year and the chief Paris Games organizer pledged that Olympians and campaigners will be given "plenty of opportunities" to speak for LGBTQ rights at the sports showcase. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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Paris Olympics vows to carry the torch for LGBTQ rights after watershed of Tokyo
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Wed,05/17/23-10:58AM , 163 Reads
PARIS (AP) — Organizers of the Paris Olympics, who gave rainbow colors to their logo Wednesday to mark the international day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia, aren't limiting themselves to promises of inclusive Games next year.
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A man rides a scooter in Paris, Friday, march 31, 2023. Romantically zipping two-to-a-scooter, wind in the hair, past the Eiffel Tower and other iconic sights could soon become a thing of the past if Parisians vote Sunday to do away with the 15,000 opinion-dividing micro-machines. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

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No more room for vroom? Paris votes on banishing e-scooters
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Sat,04/01/23-9:03PM , 389 Reads
PARIS (AP) — The wheels may be about to come off Paris' ubiquitous for-hire electric scooters.
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Protesters march during a rally in Paris, on March 23, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron has ignited a firestorm of anger with unpopular pension reforms that he rammed through parliament. Young people, some of them first-time demonstrators, are joining protests against him. Violence is also picking up. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

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In Macron's France, streets and fields seethe with protest
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Mon,03/27/23-1:27AM , 120 Reads
PARIS (AP) — A big day has come for French high school student Elisa Fares. At age 17, she is taking part in her first protest.
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Ukrainian military fires from a multiple rocket launcher at Russian positions in the Kharkiv area, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. The Biden administration declared its Ukraine solidarity with fresh action as well as strong words on Friday, piling sweeping new sanctions on Moscow and approving a new $2 billion weapons package to re-arm Kyiv a year after Russia's invasion. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Ukraine: Zelenskyy seeks more sanctions, fighting grinds on
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Sat,02/25/23-8:19AM , 433 Reads
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fighting is grinding on in Ukraine after the country marked the anniversary of Russia's invasion, with Ukrainian authorities on Saturday reporting dozens of new Russian strikes and attacks on cities in the east and south.
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