The far-right leader has helped trigger France's second political crisis in six months and it's a decision that may come back to haunt her say politicians and analysts.
After using a decree to push through parliament a social security budget bill without a vote by MPs, French Prime Minister Michel Barnier and his minority government now face a vote of no-confidence on Wednesday which, supported by the far-right and radical-left, is most likely to succeed.
A prolific actor who was directed by Jacques Audiard and Steven Spielberg, who starred in the Oscar-nominated A Prophet, died on Sunday at his home in the Paris suburb of Ville-d'Avray after a long illness.
The stuffed beast, a star of the court of Louis XV after arriving in France in 1770, is on show at London's Science Museum, whose curator Glyn Morgan said photos do not show 'just how impressive and characterful it is'.
Chad has put an end to the longtime military alliance with France, the former colonial ruler of the country, effectively ending France’s military influence in the troubled stretch of countries below the Sahara known as the Sahel after similar moves by Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso.
Charles Kushner, father of Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and a real-estate developer who pleaded guilty to federal charges of tax evasion, campaign finance offences and witness tampering before being pardoned during Trump's first term in office, has been chosen by the US president-elect to be the next US ambassador to France.
According to news agency reports, French President Emmanuel Macron has sent a letter to his Senagalese counterpart Bassirou Diomaye Faye saying 'France must recognise that [...] the confrontation between soldiers and riflemen who demanded their full legitimate wages be paid, triggered a chain of events that resulted in a massacre' of African infantrymen who served for France in WWII.
The first video and still images of the completed 700-million euro restoration of Notre Dame cathedral, which was badly damaged by a fire in 2019, have been released as President Emmanuel Macron on Friday visisted the landmark ahead of its reopening to the public on December 7th.
As Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and her council majority continue to roll out measures to restrict motor traffic and encourage cycling in the French capital, the latest being a ban on through-traffic in the city centre, opinions are divided.
Bernard Arnault, 75, the CEO of French luxury goods group LVMH, appeared in court on Thursday as a witness at the trial of former French intelligence director Bernard Squarcini who he hired as a security chief, and who is accused of using state agents to counter a blackmailer targeting Arnault, and also when mounting an intelligence-gathering operation targeting journalist and leftwing MP François Ruffin.
As the French government, led by former minister and EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, approaches a possible fatal no confidence vote in parliament next week over its budget proposals, an Ifop-Fiducial opinion survey for Sud Radio published on Thursday found 53% of those polled wanted Barnier and his ministers to step down.
The French government has changed its earlier position on the arrest warrants for war crimes issued by the International Criminal Court against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant, which was initially that it would arrest the men if they landed on French soil.
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