It’s been a torrid time to be a French politician. If you’re not one in a line of ousted prime ministers or being locked up ...

As much as the French capital reveled in the celebratory air of the Olympics this summer, many are less than thrilled to discover Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s plan to keep the iconic Olympic rings on ...

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo finally fulfilled her promise to take a dip in the long-polluted Seine River to prove that it was safe ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics that begin next week. Hidalgo has ...

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo sought to prove a point Wednesday: She took a dip in the murky waters of the Seine to show to the world the river is clean enough for outdoor swimming events at the Olympics.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she was confident water quality in the River Seine will be up to Olympic standards this summer — and that she’ll be able to prove it by swimming there, possibly alongside ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo finally swam in the River Seine on Wednesday, fulfilling a promise to try to convince doubters that its waters will be clean enough to hold Olympic swimming ...

Some small shops and services, including a dog grooming salon, remained open on Saturday in a small town outside Paris with support from their local mayor, amid signs of sporadic pushback against a ...

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Thursday that the Paris 2015 terror attacks, which left over 100 people dead, gave her the motivation to get the French capital ...

The stores in the BHV department store in central Paris and Galeries Lafayette department stores in five other French cities ...

First, France cleaned the polluted river so that Olympians could swim there. Now, a year later, it is opening three sites for locals to plunge in. By Catherine Porter and Dmitry Kostyukov Paul Varry ...