French prosecutors said they did not consider terrorism was the motive of a 31-year-old man who they believe deliberately, under the influence of drugs, drove a BMW car Monday evening into a pizzeria in a village east of Paris, killing outright a girl aged 13 and injuring at least 12 other people, four seriously.
A 13-year-old girl died and at least 12 other people were injured, five seriously, after a driver, who was later arrested, drove his car into customers in a pizzeria at Sept-Sorts, near the town of Meaux east of Paris, in what police have described as a deliberate act.
The attack by gunmen on diners sitting at a restaurant terrace in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou on Sunday left 20 dead, according to local officials, including at least one French national, 18 months after 30 people died in a jihadist attack on a nearby café.
French NGO Doctors Without Borders has announced it is suspending its boat's operations to search and rescue migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea in hazardous conditions after what it said was 'threatening behaviour' by Libyan coatsguards.
There were just more than 90,000 new jobs created in the French private sector during the second quarter of this year, a 0.5% rise on the first quarter and marking the 11th consecutive quarter in which private-sector jobs have grown, with most created in services and construction.
With seven food processing plants in France identified as having received eggs contaminated by the insecticide fipranil from Belgian and Dutch suppliers, and the revelation that a further quarter-million contaminated eggs were sold in shops around the country, the French agriculture ministry has insisted that 'the levels of actual contamination do not pose any risks for consumers'.
Hamou Bachir Benlatreche, a 36-year-old Algerian national legally resident in France and who was shot five times during his arrest in northern France on suspicion of carrying out a car-ramming attack on six soldiers in a Paris suburb, is deemed unfit for questioning as he recovers in hospital.
President Emmanuel Macron's government has put down markers for its intention to field French candidates for two key eurogroup jobs as part a push to reassert France’s economic policymaking role after years of subservience to Germany.
Economy minister Bruno Le Maire said France and Germany would join forces to tackle what he called 'digital platforms' escaping taxes on their business activities in France, notably citing Airbnb as a target.
An autopsy has apparently revealed the mystery of how two men, one aged 69 and the other 38, were both found dead after sharing a meal in a garden belonging to one of them in north-west France, after it found that Olivier Boudin suffered a heart attack after seeing his close friend Lucien Pérot die when he was choked on a beef rib after the two had drunk a considerable amount of alcohol.
The French lower house, the National Assembly, on Wednesday approved a bill of law containing measures aimed at introducing greater probity in public office by 412 votes to 74, sealing a troubled passage of legislation promised by President Emmanuel Macron during his election campaign.
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