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Macron says France needs to address causes of unrest prompted by police killing

Emmanuel Macron has called for order and calm – and efforts to address the roots of several days of unrest around France sparked by...

French rioting appears to slow six days after teenager’s death in Paris suburbs

Unrest across France sparked by the police shooting of a 17-year-old appeared to slow on its sixth night, but public buildings, cars and municipal...

Paris firefighters battle blaze following reports of explosion

Firefighters are tackling a blaze on Paris’ Left Bank that has sent smoke soaring over the domed Pantheon monument and prompted the evacuation of...

2024 Paris Olympics HQ searched in corruption probe

French investigators are searching the headquarters of the 2024 Paris Olympics organisers in a probe into suspected corruption, according to the national financial prosecutor’s...

Rafael Nadal to hold press conference amid reports of French Open withdrawal

Rafael Nadal will address reports he is set to pull out of the French Open at a press conference on Thursday. Nadal pulled out of...

Lebanese-Canadian academic convicted of Paris synagogue bombing in 1980

A Lebanese-Canadian academic has been convicted in absentia of terrorism charges and sentenced to life in prison over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue...

French police fire tear gas at protesters amid new strikes over pension reforms

Protesters have disrupted traffic around Paris’s main airport and police fired clouds of tear gas in other French cities amid the latest round of...

Emmanuel Macron in China urges ‘shared responsibility for peace’

French President Emmanuel Macron said has said he wants to “engage China toward a shared responsibility for peace” in Ukraine when he meets Chinese...

France’s highest court refuses extradition of far-left Italian militants

France’s highest court has refused the extradition of former far-left Italian militants who were convicted of attacks carried out in the 1970s and 1980s. The...

Louvre staff block entrances as part of pension protest

The Louvre Museum in Paris has closed to the public after its staff took part in the wave of French protest strikes against the...

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