Jérôme Hugonnot, a French-Australian national who works in Chad for the ONG Sahara Conservation Fund, was reported to have been kidnapped on Friday in the north-central African country.
Michel Mercier, 75, who served as minister for rural affairs and regional planning from 2009 to 2010 and as justice minister from 2010 to 2012, is accused of employing his wife and daughter and a phantom part-time parliamentary assistant for fake jobs paid out of parliamentary funds.
Newly appointed British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has held phone talks with French President Emmanuel Macron which Downing Street claimed were centred on cracking down on migrant crossings of the Channel although the Élsée made no mention of the subject.
A group of 48 families have filed a 250-million-euro civil suit for gross negligence against Nestlé France over the poisoning of dozens of children, two of whom died, with the E. Coli bacteria after eating pizzas manufactured by the food giant's susbsidiary Buitoni.
Internationally renowned French abstract painter Pierre Soulages, who for four decades explored evolving variations of black, and the contrasting colour and light it can reveal, has died in the town of Sète in southern France at the age of 102.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Paris on Wednesday for lunch and talks with President Emmanuel Macron to a backdrop of increasingly strained relations between their two governments on a variety of issues.
After initially displaying reticence at meeting with Italy's new far-right prime minister during his offical visit to Italy, French President Emmanuel Macron finally held informal talks in Rome on Sunday with Giorgia Meloni, while also posting on Twitter his thanks to outgoing Italian premier Mario Draghi.
An investigation by French public broadcaster Radio France estimates that billions of euros are each year saved by the French social security benefits system through the complex bureaucracy that confronts and deters entitled claimants in need of help.
The women and children were brought back to France from Kurd-controlled camps in Syria where they had been interned after the military collapse of the so-called Isalamic State group in the region, and follows a similar mission in July.
The office of president of the former royal palace and its estate, a museum visited by nearly 20 million people per year and a venue for grand state occasions, built by Louis XIV and which has 1,000 staff, is one of the most desirable of dozens of prestigious posts that the French president can gift to those who have pleased him.
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