French Prime Minister Michel Barnier, appointed in September, presented his government's programme before parliament on Tuesday, when he made clear tackling public sector debt through spending cuts and greater taxation would be his priority.
A Paris lawyer acting on behalf of women who say they fell victim to sexual assaults by the disgraced late billionaire businessman Mohammed Al Fayed when they worked at his luxurious Paris hotel, the Ritz, is to file a request next week that French prosecutors open an investigation into the claims.
French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Canada from New York, where he had addressed the United Nations, for a set of meetings with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau on subjects as diverse as strengthening the influence of French culture and language and issues surrounding artificial intelligence.
Frenchs rail operator SNCF and Germany's Deutsche Bahn are to begin a daily, daytime high-speed rail service linking the Gare de l'Est in Paris with the Berlin Hauptbahnhof in around eight hours, with stops along the route both ways at Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, and Frankfurt Süd.
One of the 49 men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot, who was unkowingly sedated by her husband who offered her to other men for sex, said that when he first began touching her, the absence of reaction led him to believe she might be dead.
A study by an environmental group has shown that the bed of the Gerardmer lake in the Vosges mountains of eastern France, a popular site for bathers, contains unexploded munitions from the first and second world wars, and even the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, causing high levels of TNT explosive in the waters, as well as metals like iron, titanium and lead.
The revelation that a 22-year-old Moroccan man suspected of murdering a 19-year-old woman student in Paris, before burying her body in a shallow grave in nearby woods, had failed to leave France as ordered after serving a prison sentence for rape has sparked calls for a toughening of deportation measures.
Tensions were running high on Tuesday in the France's Pacific Ocean territory of New Caledonia, where the pro-independence, indigenous Kanak people lament every September 24th which marks French annexation of the territory in 1853, and where unrest this year has claimed the lives of 13 people.
New PM has ended up with a government that includes a mix of holdovers from the last government and several conservative newcomers including Bruno Retailleau - a staunch conservative known for his hardline stance on immigration - as interior minister.
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