Earlier this year, Macron announced his intention to provide French youth with a new option to voluntarily serve in the military. Conscription, which France ended in 1996, is not being considered. He ...

President Macron says volunteers aged 18-19 will start serving next year in a new French military service program ...

Macron announced that volunteers aged 18 and 19 will start serving next year in a 10-month new military service program. “A new national service is set to be gradually established, starting from next ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Firefighters battled a blaze at a high-rise residential complex in Hong Kong for the second day on Thursday, as the death toll rose to 55 in one of the deadliest blazes in the city's ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll from severe flooding in southern Thailand climbed to more than 80 people as floodwaters began to subside Thursday, officials said.