An amateur video recording has emerged of police officers shooting at a car driven by an allegedly armed man, who was later found dead, after he refused a summons to step out of his vehicle on a housing estate near the town of Montargis, south of Paris, and who sped off after ramming a police vehicle.
Thousands of passengers were forced to sleep in their trains overnight Saturday after rail services linking Marseille and Nice were halted as a precautionary measure when weekend wildfires, which left three firefighters and an elderly woman in need of medical treatment, surrounded tracks.
Police detained a man reportedly carrying a firing pistol in the main railway station of the town of Nîmes in southern France on Saturday, where Spain's celebrated Vuelta a España cycling tournament kicked off earlier in the day just 48 hours after the terrorist attacks in Catalonia.
The stage and television actress, who was active in encouraging a cross-denomination opposition to the Damascus regime of President Bashar al-Assad and who found refuge in France after taking part in the 2011 uprising in Syria, died overnight Thursday from cancer at the age of 44.
France’s foreign affairs minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has confirmed that 28 French nationals were injured in the terrorist attacks in Spain on Thursday, with eight of them in a serious condition on Friday, including four children.
A Paris appeal court has ordered estranged US cinema actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to pay French interior designer Odile Soudant a total of 565,000 euros for unpaid work on a project of a lighting design for their 40-room, 17th-century French chateau in Provence.
In her first interview since her husband Emmanuel was elected as France's president in May, Brigitte Macron tells Elle magazine that her contested role as an official 'first lady', promised by her spouse, 'will be published on the Élysée site so the French know exactly what I’m doing'.
French national Salah Abdeslam, 27, currently in preventive detention in a prison near Paris over his alleged role in the gun and suicide bombing attacks in and around Paris on November 13th 2015 which left 130 people dead, has been ordered to stand trial in Belgium over the wounding of police officers in a raid on his hideout in Brussels in March 2016.
French President Emmanuel Macron has held a phone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and 'expressed his concern about the case of Loup Bureau, a journalism student detained in Turkey, and his desire to see our compatriot return to France as soon as possible' said a statement by the Elysée Palace.
Pictures taken by a French military satellite two weeks after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in March 2014 show a cluster of what the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, involved in the search for the Boeing 777, believe are 'probably' man-made objects that could be wreckage from the plane in a part of the Indian Ocean that was not searched.
A study published in the journal Pediatrics reports that emergency medical treatment of children after their accidental intoxication from marijuana has risen by 133% over the past 11 years in France, the country where consumption of the drug is the highest in Europe.
Investigators appear to have ruled out a terrorist motive behind the ramming of a pizzeria in a village east of Paris, when a 32-year-old man, reportedly depressive and under the effects of medicinal drugs, drove at customers sitting at the restaurant's terrace, killing a 13 year-old girl and injuring 13 others, five seriously.
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