The French National Assembly erased the Code Noir, a 17th-century slave law, 178 years after the abolition of slavery. On the 28th, local time, based on reports by the Guardian and AP in the U.K., ...

French lawmakers on Thursday voted unanimously to repeal the Code Noir, a colonial-era law that classified enslaved people as property, in a landmark reckoning with one of the darkest pillars of ...

PARIS(AP) — France’s powerful lower house voted finally to scrub a fundamental slavery-era edict from French law on Thursday. After the National Assembly voted 254-0 to adopt the bill to repeal Code ...

PARIS: For nearly two centuries after France abolished slavery, the colonial-era law that classified humans as property remained quietly in place. On Thursday, lawmakers will finally move to eliminate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue is photographed by French artist Didier Audrat in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026, honoring the memory of the abolition of ...

FOR nearly two centuries since France abolished slavery, a colonial-era law classifying humans as property has remained on its books. The lower house of parliament voted to wipe it from French law on ...

The all-new Galaxy S26 Ultra is a pretty tough phone to beat thanks to its fast Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, quad camera and S Pen tucked inside its toughened body that features an Armor ...