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#washingtonpost.com. × Paris votes on making 500 streets car-free, in test for green city policies. Mayor Anne Hidalgo has floated a plan to “revegetate” 500 Parisian streets to make the city more liveable. Critics say it would deepen divides between urbanites and commuters.

#washingtonpost.com. × White House says U.S. won’t return Statue of Liberty to France. French politician Raphaël Glucksmann called for the return of the Statue of Liberty — a gift from France — in a symbolic critique of the Trump administration.

#washingtonpost.com. × How migrants cross the English Channel without being stopped. The scene on a French beach illustrates the dangers of English Channel crossings, as well as how thousands of migrants make it across to Britain.

#washingtonpost.com. × They called the police on a migrant hiding on their RV — then got fined. A U.K. couple is challenging the nearly $2,000 fine they received after reporting that a stowaway had hitched a ride home with them from their French vacation.

#washingtonpost.com. × Fred Stolle, 1960s Australian tennis star, dies at 86. Playing with a formidable serve-and-volley style, he won 19 Grand Slam titles, including singles championships in France in 1965 and the United States in 1966.

#washingtonpost.com. × Surgeon accused of sexually abusing hundreds of children, some under anesthesia. The trial of Joël Le Scouarnec, who is charged with the rape and sexual assault of 299 people in France over decades, is set to begin. The alleged victims’ average age was 11.

#washingtonpost.com. × Mona Lisa to get a room of her own in Louvre museum renovation. French President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to expand the Louvre, and move the Mona Lisa to a new exhibition space, after the museum warned of overcrowding.

#washingtonpost.com. × Sex not part of woman’s ‘marital duties,’ court rules in divorce case. A Frenchwoman took her case to the European Court of Human Rights after she was ruled at fault in her divorce because she had stopped having sex with her husband.

#washingtonpost.com. × Valérie André, first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat, dies at 102. The French army neurosurgeon and pilot known as “Mademoiselle Helicopter" flew more than 160 wounded men from the battlefields of Indochina to hospitals in Hanoi.

#washingtonpost.com. × André Soltner, chef whose Lutèce became pacesetter, dies at 92. His Manhattan restaurant made him one of the most acclaimed French chefs outside of France.

#washingtonpost.com. × France extradites U.S. man who confessed to alleged sex assault on Facebook. Ian Cleary was charged in Pennsylvania with sexual assault in 2021 after he messaged his alleged victim “So I raped you.” In April, he was detained in France.

#washingtonpost.com. × Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of far-right party in France, dies at 96. The frequent presidential contender was twice convicted of dismissing the Nazi gas chambers as a “minor point” in World War II.

#washingtonpost.com. × European foreign ministers meet with Syria’s interim leader. France’s foreign minister, who is in Damascus with his German counterpart, said Friday there is “real hope” for Syria, “but it is a fragile hope.”

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