National assembly votes to repeal Code Noir under which enslaved people were beaten, raped and killed

French senators have unanimously passed a bill allowing for the remains of people who were exhibited in colonial-era “human zoos” in Paris to be returned to their ancestral lands in French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America.

The president of France is holding a public celebration to mark the adoption this week of a constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights. FADEL: And in France, people are celebrating the passage earlier this week of a constitutional amendment ...