French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Washington on Monday, joining a delegation of European leaders, the European Commission president and Nato Secretary-General to give support to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the occasion of his meeting with US President Donald Trump.
France has demanded the 'immediate release' of a member of its embassy staff in Mali, who was arrested on accusations that he was helping intelligence services to 'destabilise' the West African country, which has distanced itself from France over recent years in favour of close relations with Russia.
The French president announced 'every effort will be made' to punish those who cut down an olive tree planted in a Paris suburb as a memorial to Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jewish man who was kidnapped and tortured by a gang in 2006 and who died from his horrific injuries.
A violent mob of youths prevented an open-air public screening of the film Barbie in a low-income Paris suburb, claiming it promoted homosexuality and demeaned women, igniting a political row over alleged attempts by hardline Muslims to influence social behaviour in districts with large immigrant populations.
France waged a 'war' with 'repressive violence' before and even after its former colony gained independence in 1960, declared French President Emmanuel Macron in a letter sent to his Cameroonian counterpart Paul Biya in July and made public on Tuesday.
Three reactors at the Gravelines nuclear plant near Calais in north-est France shut down automatically after their coolant water filters became jammed by what operator EDF said was a 'massive and unpredictable' swarm of jellyfish.
To the backdrop of a second major heatwave in France this summer, a political debate has opened over the use of air-conditioning, which the far-right has promised to encourage with a 'major' national plan, and which the Left, beginning with the Greens, counters is only treating the symptoms of climate warming while fuelling it, rather than removing its underlying causes.
The vast wildfire that last week swept through around 16,000 hectares of land in the Corbières region of southern France also destroyed the 100-year-old vines of winemaker Jean-Marie Dubois and the stock of 1,300 bottles of his prized white wine.
An exhibition now on until November at the Paris Institut du Monde Arab is showcasing the rich history of what is present-day Gaza, displaying objects that trace the artistic and commercial development of a place that has been a crossroads of cultures since Neolithic times.
Media revelations about the use of outlawed filtering of mineral water by French companies, chief among them Nestlé's subsidiary Perrier, and allegations of a cover-up of the practices by both the firms and conniving ministers, are now joined by concern about the over-pumping of water tables which are fast diminishing amid the effects of climate change.
Local winemakers and mayors have blamed the state-subsidized uprooting of vineyards in the Corbières region of southern France, the scene of this weeks mega-wildfire, for the rapid spread of the flames which they claim would otherwise have been slowed by the moist plantations.
Amid increasing tensions between France and Algeria, notably over refusal by Algiers to accept its deported nationals and recognition by Paris of Morocco's sovereignty over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, president Emmanuel Macron has asked his government to adopt a tougher stance against the former French colony.
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