More than 60 years since France started its nuclear tests in Algeria, their legacy continues to poison relations between the North African nation and its former colonial ruler. The issue has come to ...

France in the 1960s is famous for its symbols of liberation: Bardot, Foucault, student rebellion (“under the pavement, the beach”). Yet nearly half the country lived with the ongoing threat of ...

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In a new French film, a 1960s college student discovers that she must cope with a life-changing event almost entirely on her own. Critic Bob Mondello says that the film "Happening" is a period piece ...

Between 1960 and 1966, France conducted 17 atmospheric or underground nuclear tests deep in the Sahara desert of Algeria - Copyright AFP/File - Between 1960 and 1966 ...

PARIS — France mourned the loss of a singular voice and “an icon of French song” on Wednesday, as the death of Francoise Hardy took one of the last great figures of its 1960s heyday. Hardy’s death at ...

ALGIERS: More than 60 years since France started its nuclear tests in Algeria, their legacy continues to poison relations between the North African nation and its former colonial ruler. The issue has ...

The issue has come to the fore again after President Emmanuel Macron said in French Polynesia on Tuesday that Paris owed "a debt" to the South Pacific territory over atomic tests there between 1966 ...