Large numbers of packages containing what the authorities describe as 'very pure cocaine' along with other drugs have been found on beaches along a lengthy strip of France's Atlantic coast over recent weeks, with those found so far estimated to have a potential street value of about 60 million euros.
An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale was felt across parts of southern France on Monday, centred on the town of Montélimar where it caused serious injuries to at least one person and damaged buildings, leading to the closure of a nuclear power plant and local schools.
Marchers estimated to number 13,500 marched in Paris on Sunday following several recent incidents of Islamophobia in France, including an arson and shooting attack against a mosque in south-west France, while a number of leftwing parties did not take part arguing that organisers opposed the country's constitutional principles regarding secularity.
German foreign minister Heiko Maas, reacting to French President Emmanuel Macron's remark last week that the North Atlantic Treatty Organisation, NATO, was 'brain dead', has said that 'without the United States, neither Germany nor Europe will be able to effectively protect themselves'.
The 22-year-old, studying at university in the south-east city of Lyon, posted a message about his dire financial problems on Facebook shortly before setting himself alight in front of a student canteen when he sustained 90% burns.
The French government aims to sell down its stake in the Francaise des Jeux (FDJ) lottery operator from 72% currently to 20% when the shares are due to begin trading on November 21st, hoping raise up to 1.7 billion euros for state funds.
Valentine Monnier told Le Parisien newspaper that the alleged rape occurred in 1975, when she was 18, at Roman Polanski’s chalet in Gstaad, detailing that 'he pummelled me until I gave in and then raped me, making me do all sorts of things'.
A search by about 150 volunteers in eastern France, following an appeal for help from French air accident investigation agency, the BEA, have found titanium fragments of a Pratt & Whitney engine from an Airbus 220 that exploded mid-flight this summer, the third such incident this year.
Tha hand of a Scottish tourist who went missing last Saturday while snorkelling off France's Indian Ocean island of La Réunion has been found inside a shark and identified by his wife after she recognised his wedding ring.
Veteran French cinema actress Catherine Deneuve, 76, who first found fame in Jacques Demy's 1964 musical 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg', has suffered a mild stroke while shooting her forthcoming film 'De son vivant', her family have confirmed.
During a three-day visit to China this week by French President Emmanuel Macron, France and China signed commercial deals in the fields of aeronautics, energy and agriculture worth a total of around 15 billion dollars, a Chinese government official has announced.
With nationwide municipal elections due next March, when French President Emmanuel Macron's centre-right LREM party will face off with the far-right Rassemblement National, he and his prime minister, Édouard Philippe, have announced tough new measures to curb immigration, including quotas, reduced access to healthcare, enforcement of expulsion of illegal immigrants and forced dismantlement of migrant camps.
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