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Two young girls are the only survivors of a shooting attack on a holidaying family from Britain that left four dead in woodland in the French Alps.

Four French people have died in forest fires raging between France and northern Catalonia in Spain, the worst in the region in more than 20 years.

President François Hollande and his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy attended a ceremony in Paris to honour four French soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

Four French troops were killed and another five wounded in a suicide bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday.

Trial opens of French pharmaceutical firm Servier for hiding dangers of diabetes drug used to lose weight and blamed for causing at least 500 deaths.

Two French soldiers engaged in a support mission in Afghanistan were shot dead by an Afghan army soldier.

Tests find no clear reason for the mysterious deaths of 36 wild boars on France's northwestern coast, thought to be caused from seaweed gases.