Vietnam celebrated the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu that ended French colonial occupation with a parade in a stadium in Dien Bien Phu, today home to 80,000 people.

Suddenly, “a policeman shot an Algerian flag-bearer, sparking shock and anger among the crowd, who then turned on the Europeans who were present,” Benjamin Stora, an Algeria-born French ...

French lawmakers participate in a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the May 8, 1945, massacres in the Algerian city of Setif, on May 10, 2025.