The wreck of a 16th-century merchant ship carrying Italian plates and jugs, cauldrons and defensive canons, has been found intact in the Mediterranean Sea off south-east France and lying 2, 567 metres underwater, the deepest of any such find in French territorial waters.
Four adults were killed and more than 20 others were injured, several seriously, after a coach carrying Ukrainian teenagers home after an exchange trip crashed on a motorway in north-west France on Friday.
A Paris appeals court has released from detention in mainland France Christian Tein, a leader of the Knak independence movement on France's Pacific Ocean territory of New Caledonia, along with three other Kanak militants, who were all transferred to the mainland after pro-independence revolts shook the archipelago in May 2024.
Georges 'Bill' Pallot and Bruno Desnoues were given four months behind bars along with suspended sentences for selling fake 18th-Century chairs to collectors including the Palace of Versailles and a member of the Qatari royal family.
A 31-year-old teaching assistant died on Tuesday moring after she was repeatedly stabbed by a 14-year-old boy during a routine search for weapons in pupils' bags as they arrived at their secondary school in Nogent, north-east France, on Tuesday morning.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of Spain's Vox party and former Czech premier Andrej Babis attended a rally in countryside south of Paris organised by France's far-right RN party, where its figurehead Marine Le Pen was feted amid stinging attacks on the EU and what Salvini called 'an invasion of illegal immigrants, mainly Islamists'.
The approval by the French lower house, the National Assembly, of a posthumous promotion to brigadier general for Alfred Dreyfus, a French army captain who was wrongly convicted in 1894 of giving secrets to the Germans in an infamous case of anti-Semitism, may be followed by his transfer to the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris.
One of France's leading antiques experts, Georges "Bill" Pallot, and award-winning cabinetmaker, Bruno Desnoues, who in March stood trial on charges of fraud and money laundering, and who admitted hoodwinking experts from the Palais de Versailles, will be sentenced on June 11th.
Elizaveta Krivonogikh, aka Elizaveta Rudnova, 22, rumoured to be a daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has allegedly worked as an intern at a gallery in the French capital where artists opposed to Russia's war against Ukraine are showcased.
Aylo, the parent company of pornographic websites Pornhub, Youporn and RedTube, has suspended access in France to their content in protest at new laws requiring adult websites to verify that visitors are aged 18 or more.
If passed new law would poshumously promote Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, to the rank of brigadier general, an act of reparation for one of the most notorious acts of antisemitism in France's history.
The shooting late on Saturday in the southern town of Puget-sur-Argens came after a Malian man was stabbed to death in April in a mosque, also in southern France.
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