As the French Prime Minister attempts to launch a national discussion about French identity, The Local looks at how you define Frenchness, and whether it's even possible.

New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

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Meet Frenchman Jules Brunet, the real-life last samurai. Fighting alongside the Shogunate rebels who wanted to maintain ...

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At the end of December and the beginning of January Jews around the world celebrated the Festival of Lights, known as ...

Here's the crux of one more thing the newspaper printed that's not gonna happen . . . Check-it: ...

She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran ... In talks held in the United Kingdom last week, French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Keir ...

Maybe the answer to Native American symbols and team names isn’t less ethnicity, but more and better. From David Mastio: ...

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A sea captain and namesake of Conyngham Borough so harassed merchant ships that the English hesitated to sail around their ...