French artist Françoise Gilot, an accomplished painter in her own right, whose career was often reduced by the media to her early romantic relationship with Pablo Picasso, from which were born Claude and Paloma Picasso and which she left to successfully pursue her own vocation, has died at a Manhattan hospital at the age of 101.
Dirk Raats, a 71-year-old Dutch man, has been arrested on suspicion of shooting at his British neighbours, killing Solaine Thornton, 11, and wounding her parents, in the village of Saint-Herbot in Brittany, north-west France.
French president Emmanuel Macron on Friday visited the south-eastern town of Annecy, where he visited a 78-year-old man who was among the six victims of a stabbing rampage by a Syrian man on Thursday, and said he had received 'positive' news about the four infants also wounded in the attack.
A British girl and a Dutch boy, both holidaying in France, are among four children aged between 22 months and three years who were wounded along with two adults in a knife attack by a Syrian man in the south-east French town of Annecy, close to the Alps.
Four children, including a three-year-old, were among at least six people wounded, three of them critically, in a knife attack on Thursday in a park in the town of Annecy, close to the French Alps, by a man described by police as a Syrian national who had obtained refugee status in Sweden.
France-based journalist Mortaza Behboudi, who has worked for Mediapart and major French broadcasters, notably on reporting missions to Afghanistan, has been detained in Kabul by the Taliban authorities since January 7th this year. The reporter, who holds dual French and Afghan nationality, turned 29 in April, in his prison cell. We call on the Taliban authorities for his release and freedom, and we will continue to do so until he is safely back among us.
French utility giant EDF is accused by opponents of its proposed wind farm off a D-Day beach in Normandy of 'cynicism' by proposing to name the project's 64 turbines after ships that took part in the landings.
After five months of mobilisations against President Emmanuel Macron's reform of the pension system, which raises the legal age of retirement on full pension rights by two years to 64, the 14th day of trades union-organised demonstrations on Tuesday drew the lowest turnout since the protests began.
Two-thirds of the Normandy coastline are eroding through swelling sea levels, including the beaches of the D-Day landings, where the relics of the battle engaged by the largest seaborne invasion in history remain visible, prompting debate over whether, and how, the sites can be protected.
Leon Gautier, 100, who was among 177 French commandos who landed on Norman beaches on June 6th 1944, and who is the only one of them still alive, joined alongside President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday at a ceremony in Normandy marking the 79th anniversary of D-Day.
The Paris council is to introduce a height limit of 37 metres for new building constructions across the capital as part of a long-term 'bioclimatic' plan to cope with rising temperatures and a shortage of housing.
The three men are accused of attacking Jean-Baptiste Trogneux, a great-nephew of Brigitte Macron, the wife of the French president, during an "impromptu" street protest outside the Trogneux chocolate shop in Amiens, northern France.
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