French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the order to bring the ambassadors back to Paris 'immediately', the first time such a move has been taken regarding the US since the the American war of independence, was made at the request of French President Emmanuel Macron.
French education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has called on school staff to be vigilant over eventual bullying prompted by an unexplained viral campaign of online posts targeting children born in 2010, and which have attracted millions of views.
A 23-year-old French woman who has been living in Britain over the past year, and who has applied for residency status as required of EU citizens by post-Brexit regulations, was detained for more than eight hours when she re-entered the country at London's Gatwick airport last month.
The French government has announced that Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi died after a strike by France's Operation Barkhane force, which fights Islamist militants in the Sahel, mostly in Mali, Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso.
French health minister Olivier Véran has announced that around 3,000 healthcare workers acroos France have been suspended from duty without pay after failing to meet the deadline they were given to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
At least nine people have drowned this week, while others had to be rescued, after attempting to swim in particularly rough and windy conditions along the Mediterranean coast in southern France.
The announcement of a US-UK-Australia defence pact to face China's growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region has brought an abrupt and unexpected end to a 56-billion-euro deal signed in 2016 for the sale by France to Australia of 12 submarines, which will now instead be built in the US and UK.
British retail chain Marks & Spencer has announced it is to close within months all 11 of its stores on French high streets, while sparing those in railway stations and airports, citing 'supply chain complexities in place following the UK's exit from the European Union'.
The investigating judge has closed the inquiry into rape accusations against interior minister Gérald Darmanin and is moving towards a dismissal, according to Mediapart.
Didier Deschamps brought the case against Eric Cantona after the former Manchester United plater accused his former international teammate of racial discrimination in his choice of players for the 2016 European Champions.
French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said half of the Afghan population was now at risk, including more than four million women and around 10 million children.
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