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Aborted subs deal row: Johnson asks France to 'donnez-moi un break'

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After talks with US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, speaking in Washington about the row with France over the AUKUS pact and aborted French submarines sale, called on France to 'prenez un grip about this and donnez-moi un break'.

Storm over Trump 'you're in good shape' comment to Brigitte Macron

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On a tour of the Hôtel des Invalides military complex in Paris during his two-day state visit to France, accompanied by his wife Melania and French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, US President Donald Trump was filmed telling the latter, who is aged 64, 'You’re in such good shape' and insisting to Macron 'She’s in such good physical shape'.

France tells US that Paris climate conference is not just hot air

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French president and FM give stern rebuke to comments by US Secretary of State that the upcoming conference's decisions would not be binding.

Paris court hears Syria war victims' complaint against French foreign minister

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Syrian relatives of civil war victims accuse Laurent Fabius of encouraging 'mass crimes' in past comments allegedly favourable to the al-Nusra Front.

French police question eight-year-old over terrorism comments

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Critics say quizzing of pupil who said he was 'with the terrorists'  after Charlie Hebdo murders is sign of 'collective hysteria' engulfing country.

Father-daughter row splitting open France's far-right Front National party

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FN founder and honorary president Jean-Marie Le Pen slams his daughter's leadership of the party after she criticised his recent anti-Semitic jibes.