Eleanor Beardsley

The World Health Organization predicts "a tsunami of cases" as the omicron variant fuels a surge of COVID infections. More than a million cases a being reported globally every day around the world.

A holiday musical review celebrating the work of Cole Porter is playing to rapturous audiences in Paris.

Health experts worldwide are warning that the battle against the Omicron variant is far from over. Three NPR correspondents provide the latest on the pandemic from Europe and South Asia.

The Netherlands has gone into a strict lockdown over the Christmas and New Year to try to contain the omicron variant. It's the country third lockdown since the beginning of the pandemic.

An extreme-right TV commentator has thrown the political world in France into turmoil by launching a presidential campaign ahead of next April's election.

Relations between the U.K. and France have taken a dive. Their leaders have had troubles getting beyond personal friction which has now become public.

The trailblazing U.S.-born star and civil rights activist was given France's highest honor on Tuesday when she was inducted into the Pantheon. She first achieved fame in Paris in the 1920s.

The remains of American-born singer and WWII hero Josephine Baker are to be reinterred at the Pantheon monument in Paris. She's the first Black woman to get France's highest honor.

After reducing or eliminating COVID restrictions as more people became vaccinated, many European countries are being forced to reverse course, as infections increase across the continent.

While most Tunisians were glad to see their president dissolve the quarrelsome, ineffective parliament and take extra powers, some worry Tunisia could be repeating a path to dictatorship.

Tunisians don't seem to be alarmed that their president dissolved parliament and heighten his own power. Kais Saied has widespread support — at least for now.

Tunisia's president dissolved the last parliament and has concentrated power. Now, he's appointed the country's first female prime minister. But is this a genuine move towards reform?

Tunisia's president has made a power grab that has people worried about the country's young democracy. But most Tunisians support him.

The price of natural gas in Europe has skyrocketed in recent weeks, and there are predictions of energy shortages across the continent this winter.

A new report in France says hundreds of thousands of children have been abused by priests and others working in the Catholic Church over the last 70 years.

Facing criticism after recent steps threatening Tunisia's young democracy, the country's president has named a new prime minister — the first woman to hold that position in an Arab country.

America's nuclear submarine deal with Australia not only ended France's $66 billion deal with Australia, it also left France and Europe caught up in escalating tensions between China and the U.S.

Its jasmine and roses are prized by perfumers and those eager to learn the trade. But the French Riviera town of Grasse didn't always smell sweet. Centuries ago, it was known for leather tanneries.

The phone call was the first between President Biden and President Emmanuel Macron since last week's fracas over a nuclear submarine deal. France had recalled its ambassador from Washington.

Since the 19th century, the French city of Grasse has been the center of the world's perfume industry. It developed as a response to Grasse's medieval tanning industry –- which stank.