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Senators voted 327-0 in favor of the bill, which states that "any non-consensual sexual act constitutes sexual assault."
France is the latest country to change its criminal code to a consent-based definition of rape, but other developed countries still haven’t.
The French government will begin closed-door talks with lawmakers this week in a bid to salvage a budget from a bitter, slow-moving parliamentary debate that risks toppling Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu.
France proposes new tax rules, classifying crypto as 'unproductive wealth' under country's wealth-tax regime for digital assets.
The 77-year-old missed a bend on his bike on his way home from the supermarket on a lonely road in the mountainous Cevennes region, careening down a rocky slope and into the ravine near Saint-Julien-des-Points.
The show has all the working cars from the Continent’s two best car countries.
French budget talks have been bogged down by a volley of contradictory amendments aimed at raising taxes on the rich, heightening the risk of the bill running aground as the country’s parliament runs out of time, writes Sarah White.
Cement maker Lafarge goes on trial in France on Tuesday, accused of paying the Islamic State group and other jihadists to keep its operations running in war-torn Syria. The French firm earlier