Two weeks after taking office, administration gets over the first hurdle placed by left-wing MPs to bring down new conservative prime minister Michel Barnier.
Interior minister Bruno Retailleau said he had signed an order banning Omar Binladin and barring him from returning after the latter posted comments on social media deemed to have glorified terrorism.
France's Finance Minister Antoine Armand aims to bring the public deficit down to five percent of GDP next year, with a longer-term goal of reducing it below the EU's three percent limit by 2029.
A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in the southern French port city of Marseille on suspicion of shooting a cab driver in the head after he reportedly refused to wait for the teenager while he carried out a drugs-related revenge killing for the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old.
President Emmanuel Macron said France was not delivering weapons to Israel and called for other countries to do the same, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into a swift retort against any move for an arms embargo, telling Macron 'Shame on you'.
In two separate incidents overnight Friday, a two-year-old infant was crushed to death and two men and a woman were found unconcious, reportedly drowned, in overloaded dinghies attempting to cross the Channel from France to Britain.
Hundreds of people turned out on Sunday for a silent march in the southern French village of Mazan in support of Gisèle Pelicot, 72, whose ex-husband and 50 other men are accused in an ongoing trial of raping her while she was unconcious after being secretly administered with sedatives by her spouse.
French jihadist Peter Cherif, 42, has been sentenced by a Paris court to life imprisonment for his active membership of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen from 2011 to 2018, during which time he allegedly trained his Paris childhood friend Chérif Kouachi, who later joined with his brother Saïd to carry out the shooting massacre at the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices in the French capital in January 2015.
Michel Blanc, who began his acting career in comedy before taking on serious roles and screenwriting and directing, winning two awards at the Cannes Film Festival, died in a Paris hospital on Friday from complications following a heart attack.
Under the rules of a treasure hunt launched in 1993 in a picture book, Sur la Trace de la Chouette d’Or (On the Trail of the Golden Owl), whoever solved 11 riddles and found the bronze replica owl buried somewhere in France was entitled to exchange it for the gold-and-silver original, worth almost 300,000 euros.
Robert Bourgi, 79, who for decades worked as an intermediary for the Gaullist conservative movement in its dealings with leaders of former French colonies in Africa, and notably the organisation of secret cash payments from despots for French election campaign spending, has published his revealing memoirs.
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