Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. France's lower house of parliament has adopted a bill to allow adults with incurable illness to take lethal medication, as public ...

The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing the Code Noir, or Black Code, the ...

France’s lower house of parliament voted unanimously Thursday to repeal centuries-old royal decrees that codified slavery in French colonies, marking a symbolic step in the country’s reckoning with ...

France’s lower house has voted finally to scrub a foundational slavery-era edict from French law. The National Assembly voted ...

The French National Assembly unanimously voted to repeal the Code Noir, a colonial-era law that treated enslaved people as ...

May 27 (UPI) --France's National Assembly approved a measure that would legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia if signed into law. The French lawmakers passed the measure, dubbed the "right to die" ...

Yesterday, a 332-seat majority of the National Assembly’s 577 deputies voted to censure the Social Security budget (PLFSS) proposed by French Prime Minister Michel Barnier, bringing down his ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday he was dissolving the National Assembly and calling a snap legislative election after his party suffered a heavy defeat in elections for the European ...

The French National Assembly has voted to repeal the historic Code Noir, a law that governed enslaved people in French ...

But the French parliament's Lower House also refused to include their "spouses", just like the Senate did two days earlier.

French lawmakers in the National Assembly, France's lower house, on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to suspend a contested pension reform as next year's budget bills inch through parliament under ...