A nurse died from stab wounds on Tuesday after she was attacked in a hospital in Reims, north-east France, on Monday, just as a report was published revealing violence against French doctors has never been higher, rising by 23 percent in 2022.
Following the G7 summit in Japan, Emmanuel Macron arrived in Mongolia on Sunday for the first-ever visit by a French president, when he held talks with Mongolian leader Ukhnaagiin Khürelsukh, notably on developing ties in energy supplies.
In what police believe were the latest killings in a vicious war between drug gangs in Marseille, three men were murdered when their car was fired upon in the early hours of Sunday, bringing the total of drug-related deaths so far this year in the southern French port city to 21.
An appeal court on Wednesday upheld a three-year jail sentence - two of them suspended - which was handed in 2021 to former French president Nicolas Sarkozy for corrupting a magistrate in order to receive information about a case he was implicated in.
Jean-Baptiste Trogneux, the great nephew of the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, was was set upon by anti-government protesters on Monday outside the family's chocolate shop in Amiens in northern France, and who insulted 'the president, his wife and our family' before running away, according to the victim’s father.
Excavations are to begin soon at a site recently revealed by a 98-year-old former fighter with the French Resistance movement, where he said he witnessed the executions of up to 40 German soldiers, in an apparent retaliation for their occupying army's massacre of French civilians days earlier.
Leading Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, 60, who left his post as a professor at Oxford University after a number of women accused him of assault, has appeared in court in Switzerland accused of subjecting a woman to sexual acts, beatings and insults, while French judges have yet to rule on whether to send Ramadan for trial on charges of raping four women.
French President Emmanuel Macron held private talks on Monday with Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla, Space X, and Twitter, ahead of a grand gathering of around 200 prominent CEOs attending a 'Choose France' summit at the former royal palace of Versailles aimed at luring foreign investment to France.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Paris on Sunday evening for dinner and talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, following meetings earlier this weekend with leaders in Italy and Germany.
Benjamin Brière, a French tourist who was accused of spying and imprisoned by the Iranian authorities in 2020, and Bernard Phelan, a travel consultant who holds joint French and Irish nationality and who was imprisoned in October 2022 on similar charges, arrived in Paris on Friday evening, weakened by their several hunger strikes to protest their innocence.
