A Paris magistrate has closed, without bringing charges, a five-year investigation into allegations of rape, sexual harassment and abuse of trust brought against French interior minister Gérald Darmanin by plaintiff Sophie Patterson-Spatz.
A massive leak of data to The Guardian, and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and a number of media organisations reveals how a 90-millon-dollar-per-year lobbying and public relations effort recruited friendly politicians, notably Emmanuel Macron and former EU commissioner Neelie Kroes, to help in its campaign to disrupt Europe's taxi industry.
Several exhibitions, notably in Paris and Marseille, are marking the 60th anniversary of Algeria's independence, the result of a bloody, eight-year war against colonial rule by France, with exhibits that include photo journalism and art.
Around 600 hectares of mostly forested land in the Gard département (county) had been burned by Friday in a vast and spreading fire that has mobilized almost 1,000 firefighters and led to the evacuation of around 100 people.
French economy and finance minister Bruno Le Maire has announced a series of measures costing 20 billion euros which will target certain sections of the population to ease the growing cost-of-living crisis, as inflation in France rose to 6.5% in June.
French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, addressing Parliament with the first policy speech of her new government, announced that France's debt-laden energy giant EDF is to be nationalised, that a reform of the pension system was 'indispensable', and promised an imminent introduction of measures to ease the growing cost of living crisis.
Russia's forein minister Sergey Lavrov and Kremlin spokeswoman Maria Zakharova have strongly criticised French President Emmanuel Macron for allowing a documentary on France's public TV channel France 2 to broadcast extracts of his conversations on Ukraine with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
The 16 women, aged 22 to 39, and 35 minors arrived in France on Tuesday from several camps in north-east Syria where they were interned following the territorial defeat of the so-called Islamic State group in 2019.
Expert assessments of the state of the iconic Paris tower, built in 1889, have for several years raised the alarm over the decay caused by rust and warned that a full repair of the structure is necessary, instead of cosmetic repainting ahead of the 2024 Olympic games in the French capital, according to French media reports.
The widely acclaimed and visionary British theatre and film director Peter Brook, who settled in France in 1974 where he founded the International Centre of Theatre Research, an experimental company which he based at the Bouffes du Nord theatre in Paris, has died at the age of 97.
On the back of a NATO summit in Madrid, Australia's newly elected prime minister Anthony Albanese arrived in Paris on Friday for talks with President Emmanuel Macron, declaring his visit 'represents a new start for our countries' relationship' following the acrimony of a submarine contract cancelled by his predecessor Scott Morrison.
The presidency of the National Assembly's powerful finance committee, which can investigate the tax affairs of individuals and corporations, and the spending of ministries, has been handed to Éric Coquerel, a Member of Parliament from the radical-left La France Insoumise party, a consequence of President Emmanuel Macron's party losing its absolute majority in the house in recent legislative elections.
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