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France is set to enshrine the right to abortion in its constitution Monday at a rare parliamentary congress at the Palace of Versailles after the bill overcame its biggest legislative hurdle in the upper house Senate.

France is on its way to being first country in world to enshrine abortion access in its constitution

A stateless Armenian poet who died fighting the Nazi occupation of France during World War II on Wednesday becomes the first non-French Resistance fighter to enter the Pantheon mausoleum for national heroes.- Refugee turned fighter - Manouchian arrived in France as a young man in the mid-1920s, after fleeing World-War-I-era mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as a child to French-mandate Lebanon.

A stateless Armenian poet who died fighting the Nazi occupation of France during World War II on Wednesday becomes the first non-French Resistance fighter to enter the Pantheon mausoleum for national heroes.

Armenian Resistance hero Missak Manouchian will be laid to rest Wednesday in France’s Pantheon on the 80th anniversary of his killing by a Nazi firing squad. So-called pantheonisation is France’s highest…

Missak Manouchian and his wife Mélinée entered the Parisian monument in a ceremony attended by roughly 2,000 figures and presided over by President Emmanuel Macron.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said he favoured granting Robert Badinter, who as justice minister ended capital punishment in 1981, one of Frances top honours.

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Paris, Jan 29 (EFE). – The French National Assembly (lower house) will vote Tuesday on the government’s proposal to amend the 1958 Constitution to include “guaranteed freedom” for women to terminate their pregnancies, protecting the right to abortion regardless of changes in power. The text, presented by the government of President Emmanuel Macron in December, …

Leading MEPs have confirmed that the member states cannot agree on incluing rape in the directive to combat violence against women. About 15 countries are in favour, but with Germany and France against it, there is no qualified majority.