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 ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. When the French presidential elections begin on April 23, the world will be watching closely. Polls are tightening up, but Marine Le Pen, of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most original homes in the French Colonial style are quite old, as France's official presence in the U.S. began in the mid-1600s ...

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 ...

Lawmakers, standing in the chamber wearing scarves in the colors of the national flag, chanted “long live Algeria” as they applauded the passage of the bill, which states that France holds “legal ...

A tall, blond woman in black and a small Asian girl stand at the prow of a gilded barge moving slowly over a wide, jungle-lined river. The woman is Catherine Deneuve, star of the 1992 movie "Indochine ...

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 ...