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Amid the looting destroying shopfronts in Paris, anger continued to mount as President Emmanuel Macron was seen partying with Elton John while his country burned.

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French President Emmanuel Macron is urging parents to keep teenagers at home to quell rioting spreading across France and says social media are fueling copycat violence. After a second crisis

French President Emmanuel Macron was poised to take charge of a critical meeting of ministers on Friday, following a tumultuous third consecutive night of...

NANTERRE, France (AP) — French prosecutors said magistrates will investigate a police officer who shot and killed a 17-year-old driver for “voluntary homicide,” following two days of violent fires and

French President Emmanuel Macron urged parents Friday to keep teenagers at home and proposed restrictions on social media to quell rioting spreading across France over the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver that has resulted so far in the arrests of 875 people.

Here are some of the factors behind the unrest.

NANTERRE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is urging parents to keep teenagers at home to quell rioting spreading across France and says social media are fueling copycat violence.

Visuals of protests, shooting and charred vehicles are coming up from France for the past two days now. The clashes erupted after police shot a

Escalating violence following the death of a French teenager is stirring memories of 2005 riots that rocked France, amid longstanding accusations by critics of police violence that disproportionately targets youngsters from marginalized neighborhoods. On Thursday, thousands of people marched in the working-class Paris suburb of Nanterre, two days after a police officer shot 17-year-old Nahel…