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During a major press conference in Paris, the under-fire French president also defended his economic policies and his right to a 'private life'.

The victims were on a campsite hit by a two-metre high wall of water caused by heavy storms in the Languedoc-Roussillon region.

French foreign minister says use of the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group is because 'this is a terrorist group and not a state'.

The airline and pilots' unions continued talks Thursday over the strike that began Monday and which was originally due to end September 22.

The woman, on assignment with the Doctors Without Borders association in the capital Monrovia, is to be returned to France for treatment.

In a radio interview Emmanuel Macron described some of the largely female workforce facing lay-offs at a Brittany abattoir as 'illiterate'.

The strike, which began Monday and could last up to a week, has grounded more than a half of flights and cost the airline millions of euros.

Two minors were among those arrested near Lyon on suspicion of recruiting young women to fight in Syria.

Manuel Valls won parliament's vote of confidence in his new reshuffled government by a majority of 25, with 269 votes for and 244 against.

Haim Korsiasaid France's Jewish population was struck by a new 'sense of indifference' in society shown during recent anti-Semitic incidents.