Olivier Grondeau, 34, who was detained in Iran in October 2022 during a world tour and sentenced to five years in jail for 'conspiracy against the Islamic republic' has arrived back in France after his release earlier this week.
André Rives, 81, was hunting boar when he stumbled across a bear and her two cubs in the Pyrenees mountain range, where the animals are a protected species, when the mother attacked him before he managed to shoot her dead.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, rejecting a call by French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann for the return to France of the Statue of Liberty in reaction to the policies of Donald Trump, said the French should be grateful to the US that they 'are not speaking German right now'.
Canada's new prime minister, Mark Carney, held talks with Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Monday, when the French president, addressing the media, criticised US President Donald Trump's threats to raise tariffs on imported goods, saying 'fair trade which respects international rules' was 'certainly more effective than tariffs'.
Prolific, France-based Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne, whose debut role in the film Rosetta earned her a best actress award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, who in 2023 revealed she was suffering from adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC), a cancer of the adrenal gland, died on Sunday at the Gustave-Roussy hospital in Villejuif, close to Paris.
French Prime Minister François Bayrou, interviewed on Sunday by radio station France Inter, has ruled out a return to the previous minimum retirement age of 62, raised in 2023 to 64, despite his previous declarations suggesting a reset was a possibility.
The US president's threat to impose a 200% tariff on European wines and spirits has shaken France's producers of Champagne who fear their biggest international market, worth more than 800 million euros annually, could almost disappear.
French tycoon Vincent Bolloré's media empire, which includes TV and radio stations, newspapers and publishing houses, has adopted an agressive pro-Kremlin stance, attacking President Emmanuel Macron's position on the war in Ukraine.
Several 17th-century works by Rococo-period French artist Antoine Watteau have joined an exhibition of his works in the Chateau of Chantilly, north of Paris, after their Franco-American owner saved them from a wildfire licking his home in Los Angeles in January.
Defence minister says France will use the money to provide the Ukrainian army with older equipment from the French army, in particular AMX-10RC tanks and armored front-end vehicles.
The collective organising the rallies said 250,000 people had taken to the streets across France at some 150 demonstrations, with 120,000 people in Paris alone.
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