SYLVIE CORBET

Reporter

Corbet is an Associated Press reporter based in Paris. She covers French politics, diplomacy and defense as well as gender issues and breaking news.
FILE - Competitors swim in the Seine River during the Paris Triathlon competition in Paris Sunday, July 10, 2011. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo saidTuesday April 23, 2024 she was confident water quality will be up to the Olympics standards this summer _ and that she'll be able to prove it by swimming there, possibly alongside President Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File )
Paris mayor is confident that water quality will allow Olympic swimming in the River Seine
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she is confident water quality will be up to the Olympics standards this summer.
 
FILE-French President Emmanuel Macron speaks next to the visitor's book at the genocide memorial site in the capital Kigali, Rwanda Thursday, May 27, 2021. French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies "could have stopped" the 1994 Rwanda genocide and "lacked the will to do so." Macron's office said in a statement that the French president will release a video on Sunday as Rwanda commemorates the 30th anniversary of the genocide. (AP Photo/Muhizi Olivier, File)
President Macron says France and its allies ‘could have stopped’ the 1994 Rwanda genocide
French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies could have stopped the 1994 Rwanda genocide and but lacked the will to do so.
 
A couple jogs past the stands to watch the equestrian sports, Friday, March 29, 2024 in the park of the Chateau de Versailles, west of Paris. The site will be the venue for equestrian sports at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The Chateau de Versailles is seen in background. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
Grandstands and gallop tracks: Versailles Palace gardens get ready for Olympic equestrian events
Preparations are underway for the gardens of the Versailles Palace to welcome Olympic horse riders and tens of thousands of visitors when it hosts equestrian and modern pentathlon events during this summer’s Paris Games.
 
American track and field athlete Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, is photographed during an exhibition press day, Wednesday, March 27, 2024 in Paris. Ahead of this summer's Paris Olympics, an exhibit in the French capital shows how the Games have been a "mirror of society" since the beginning of the 20th century. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
A Paris exhibit shows how the Olympics mirror society, from Nazi propaganda to fighting inequalities
An exhibit in the French capital before this summer’s Paris Olympics shows how the games have been a “mirror of society” since the beginning of the 20th century.
 
French President Emmanuel Macron, second left, flies a drone, accompanied by Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right center, first lady Rosangela da Silva, and Gov. Helder Barbalho, left, on Combu Island, near Belem, Para state, Brazil, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Macron is on a three-day official visit to Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
The presidents of France and Brazil meet and announce a $1.1 billion investment plan for the Amazon
The Brazilian and the French presidents announced on Tuesday a plan to invest 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) on the Amazon, including its part in neighboring French Guiana.
 
FILE - French soldiers fire a French-made CAESAR self-propelled howitzer during the Spring Storm 2023 military drills, the largest annual exercise of Estonian Defence Forces, near Tapa, Estonia on May 25, 2023. France will soon be able to deliver 78 Caesar howitzers to Ukraine and will boost its supply of shells to meet Kyiv's urgent needs for ammunition to fight Russia's two-year invasion, the defense minister said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, file)
France will soon deliver 78 howitzers to Ukraine to meet Kyiv’s urgent needs, defense minister says
France’s defense minister says it will soon be able to deliver 78 Caesar howitzers to Ukraine. Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu also said Tuesday that France will boost its supply of artillery shells to meet Kyiv’s urgent needs for ammunition to fight Russia’s full-scale invasion.
 
French President Emmanuel Macron addresses a media conference at the conclusion of an EU Summit in Brussels, Friday, March 22, 2024. European Union leaders on Friday discussed plans to boost investment and the economy. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)
French President Macron regrets the Senate’s vote to reject the EU-Canada trade deal
French President Emmanuel Macron says he “regrets” the Senate’s vote to reject legislation to ratify a trade deal between the European Union and Canada.
 
A newspaper with the front page of French President Emanuel Macron is seen at a supermarket in London, Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
France’s president pounds a punching bag on camera, and Europe notices
French President Emmanuel Macron is raising eyebrows after photos of him hammering a punching bag were posted to his official photographer’s social media.
 
From left, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, French President Emmanuel Macron and Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk during a round table meeting at an EU Summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 21, 2024. European Union leaders are gathering to consider new ways to help boost arms and ammunition production for Ukraine. Leaders will also discuss in Thursday's summit the war in Gaza amid deep concern about Israeli plans to launch a ground offensive in the city of Rafah. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
EU leaders mull ways to get more arms to outgunned Ukraine amid a new sense of urgency
European Union leaders are debating new ways to help boost arms and ammunition production for Ukraine.
 
FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron waits on the steps of the Elysee Palace, Monday, March 11, 2024 in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron is to speak on national television on Thursday March 14, 2024 evening about how to further support Ukraine and the challenges faced by Europe, after saying last month the possibility of sending Western troops in the war-torn country could not be ruled out. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Macron again declines to rule out Western troops in Ukraine, but says they’re not needed now
French President Emmanuel Macron is warning Western powers not to show any weakness to Russia as he reiterates his position that sending Western troops into Ukraine should not be ruled out.
 
FILE - France's President Emmanuel Macron attend a media conference ahead of a working lunch with Moldova's President Maia Sandu at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday March 7, 2024. French President Emmanuel Macron has announced new legislation to legalize “aid in dying” that will allow adults facing end-of-life illness to take lethal medication. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool, File)
France’s Macron announces legislation allowing ‘aid in dying’ under strict conditions
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced new legislation to legalize “aid in dying” that will allow adults facing end-of-life illness to take lethal medication.
 
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. More than 20 European heads of state and government and other Western officials are gathering in a show of unity for Ukraine, signaling to Russia that their support for Kyiv isn't wavering as the full-scale invasion grinds into a third year. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool via AP)
What was the French president’s thinking when speaking about Western troops in Ukraine?
French President Emmanuel Macron appears isolated on the European stage after saying he could not rule out the possibility of Western troops being sent to Ukraine.
 
FILE - This Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 file photo shows a general view of France's Senate prior to a vote on the recognition of a Palestinian state, Paris. France's Senate is to vote on Wednesday on a bill meant to enshrine a woman's right to an abortion in the French Constitution, a measure promised by President Emmanuel Macron following a rollback on rulings in the United States. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
French Senate approves a bill to make abortion a constitutional right
France’s Senate has adopted a bill meant to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution, clearing a major hurdle.
 
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani delivers a speech during a state dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Qatar's emir has arrived in France for a two-day state visit as his country plays a key role in ongoing diplomatic efforts to achieve a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of hostages. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP)
Qatar’s emir speaks of “race against time” to win hostage releases in Gaza diplomatic efforts
The emir of Qatar has spoken of “a race against time” to secure hostage releases as part of diplomatic efforts for a cease-fire in Gaza.
 
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. More than 20 European heads of state and government and other Western officials are gathering in a show of unity for Ukraine, signaling to Russia that their support for Kyiv isn't wavering as the full-scale invasion grinds into a third year. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool via AP)
Putting Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not ‘ruled out’ in the future, French leader says
French President Emmanuel Macron says sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not “ruled out” in the future after the issue was debated at a gathering of European leaders in Paris, as Russia’s full-scale invasion grinds into a third year.
 
French President Emmanuel Macron visits the International Agriculture Fair on the opening day in Paris, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. Farmers across Europe have been protesting for weeks over what they say are excessively restrictive environmental rules. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)
Macron booed by French farmers who blame him for not doing enough to support agriculture
French President Emmanuel Macron has been greeted with boos and whistles at the opening of the Paris Agricultural Fair by angry farmers who blame him for not doing enough to support them.
 
A man takes a photograph of a tractor, with the Eiffel Tower in background, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024 in Paris. Angry farmers were back to Paris on their tractors in a new protest demanding more government support and simpler regulations, on the eve of a major agricultural fair in the French capital. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
Angry French farmers with tractors are back on the streets of Paris for another protest
Angry farmers are back in Paris on their tractors on the eve of a major agricultural fair in the French capital, in a new protest demanding more government support and simpler regulations.
 
French actress Judith Godreche speaks during the 49th Cesar Award ceremony in Paris, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. French actress Judith Godreche has called on France's film industry to "face the truth" on sexual violence and physical abuse during a live broadcast Friday of the Cesar Awards ceremony, France's version of the Oscars. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Actor calls on French film industry to face sexual abuse, during live Cesar Awards ceremony
French actor Judith Godrèche has called on France’s film industry to “face the truth” on sexual violence and physical abuse during a live broadcast Friday of the Cesar Awards ceremony, France’s version of the Oscars.
 
The portrait of Missak Manouchian is projected on the facade of Pantheon monument, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024 in Paris. While France hosts grandiose ceremonies commemorating D-Day, Missak Manouchian and his Resistance fighters' heroic role in World War II are often overlooked. French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking to change that by inducting Manouchian into the Panthéon national monument. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
France honors foreign Resistance fighters as WWII hero Manouchian is inducted into the Panthéon
When France hosts grandiose ceremonies commemorating D-Day, the heroic role of Missak Manouchian and other foreigners among French Resistance fighters in World War II is often overlooked.
 
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands after a press conference, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Paris to sign a bilateral security agreement with France hours after he officialized a similar one with Germany. The agreements send a strong signal of long-term backing as Kyiv works to shore up Western support nearly two years after Russia launched its full-scale war. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool)
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy in Paris signed security agreement with France after similar deal with Germany
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a bilateral security agreement with France. It comes hours after he officialized a similar deal with Germany on Friday.
 
FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron, right, welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Elysee palace in Paris, May 14, 2023. French President Emmanuel will sign a bilateral security agreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday Feb.16, 2024 in Paris as part of a trip to Germany and France, the French presidency said in a statement. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
France and Ukraine to sign a security agreement in Paris in the presence of President Zelenskyy
French President Emmanuel Macron will sign a bilateral security agreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris.
 
French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Stephane Sejourne, center, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, left, and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski attend a press conference after the Weimar Triangle talks at the Chateau de La Celle Saint-Cloud near Paris, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024. The foreign ministers of France, Germany and Poland met on Monday as they seek to revive the so-called Weimar Triangle, a political format that has been dormant for years. The Weimar Triangle was created in 1991 as Poland was emerging from decades of communist as a platform for political cooperation among the three nations. (Sarah Meyssonnier, Pool via AP)
France accuses Russia of a disinformation campaign in a key election year
France condemned “hostile” disinformation maneuvers from Russia. The country’s authorities accused Moscow of operating a long-running online manipulation campaign against Ukraine’s Western backers, in the lead up to the second anniversary of Moscow’s military invasion of its neighbor.
 
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk attend a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb.12, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Poland, France and Germany vow to make Europe stronger as fears grow over Russia and Trump
The governments of Poland, France and Germany are vowing to make Europe a security and defense power with a greater ability to back Ukraine.
 
French President Emmanuel Macron walks past French Republican Guards who hold portraits of the French victims of the Oct.7 2023 Hamas' attack, during a ceremony at the Invalides monument, Wednesday, Feb.7, 2024. France is paying tribute to French victims of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, in a national ceremony led by President Emmanuel Macron four months after the deadly assault in Israel that killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and saw around 250 abducted.(Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool via AP)
France denounces ‘largest antisemitic massacre of our century’ in tribute to victims of Hamas attack
French President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to victims of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in Israel in a national ceremony and denounced what he described as the “largest antisemitic massacre of our century.”
 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, welcomes France's Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne during their meeting in Jerusalem Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. 5, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool via AP)
In Israel, France’s new foreign minister presses for a cease-fire to end ‘the tragedy in Gaza’
France’s new foreign minister has used his first visit to Israel to urge the government to allow an “immediate cease-fire” and a “massive influx” of humanitarian aid in Gaza.
 
Farmers watch French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on a smartphone, announcing new measures for farmers, on a blocked highway, Thursday, Feb.1, 2024 in Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris. Protests have been held across the EU for most of the week and hundreds of angry farmers driving heavy-duty tractors arrived at European Union headquarters, bent on getting their complaints about excessive costs, rules and bureaucracy heard and fixed by EU leaders at a summit Thursday in Brussels, Belgium. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
France’s 2 key farmers unions suspend protests after the government offers new measures
France’s two major farmers unions have said they’ll lift country-wide blockades, after the prime minister introduced new measures aimed at protecting their livelihoods that they described as “tangible progress.”
 
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal speaks to the lawmakers at the National Assembly in Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Tuesday his top priority is to boost employment in his general policy address to lawmakers, three weeks after he was appointed. Attal is facing his first major challenge as angry farmers are protesting across the country and around Paris against low wages and other problems.(AP Photo/Michel Euler)
France’s new prime minister vows to defend farmers and restore authority in schools
France’s new prime minister is vowing to boost employment, restore authority in schools and support workers including farmers who have been protesting for days across the country over their eroding incomes.
 
A farmer stands at a barricade as farmers block a highway Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024 in Jossigny, east of Paris. With protesting farmers camped out at barricades around Paris, France's government hoped to calm their anger with more concessions Tuesday to their complaints that growing and rearing food has become too difficult and not sufficiently lucrative. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
France’s government announces new measures to calm farmers’ protests, as barricades squeeze Paris
France’s newly appointed prime minister has announced controls on foreign food products in order to guarantee “fair competition,” seeking to calm the anger of protesting farmers camped out around Paris.
 
Farmers drive their tractors a highway leading to Paris, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024 near Chamant, north of Paris. Protesting farmers vowed to encircle Paris with tractor barricades and drive-slows on Monday, aiming to lay siege to France's seat of power in a battle with the government over the future of their industry, which has been shaken by repercussions of the Ukraine war. (AP Photo/Matthieu Mirville)
Farmers tighten the squeeze on France’s government, aiming to lay siege to the Olympic host city Paris
Protesting farmers have encircled Paris with tractor barricades in a battle with the government over their industry’s future.
 
In this grab taken from video, activists react after throwing soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa, at the Louvre Museum, Paris, Sunday. Jan. 28, 2024, shouting slogans advocating for a sustainable food system. It comes as French farmers have been protesting for days across the country against several issues, including low wages. (AP Photo/Clement Lanot)
See the moment climate activists throw soup at the ‘Mona Lisa’ in Paris
Two climate activists have hurled soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a sustainable food system.
 
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