French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday arrived in Greenland, where he met with the Danish and Greenlandic prime ministers, in a visit he said was to demonstrate French 'solidarity' for 'the sovereignty and territorial integrity' of Greenland, which US President Donald Trump has talked of annexing.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been stripped of his Légion d'honneur, an award officially handed to those who have provided "eminent" services to France, as a result of his conviction for corruption, the government gazette announced on Sunday.
Marthe Cohn, who became fluent in German through her upbringing in north-east France, and was famed for her heroic actions during the Second World War as a spy for France's Resistance movement, when she went deep behind enemy lines to glean military information, has died at her home in California at the age of 105.
A small group of Tesla clients in France are suing the brand for termination of their leasing contracts, claiming that the political behaviour of the carmaker's CEO, Elon Musk, has turned their vehicles into 'far-right totems' and prevents them from being enjoyed by their owners.
The wreck of a 16th-century merchant ship carrying Italian plates and jugs, cauldrons and defensive canons, has been found intact in the Mediterranean Sea off south-east France and lying 2, 567 metres underwater, the deepest of any such find in French territorial waters.
Four adults were killed and more than 20 others were injured, several seriously, after a coach carrying Ukrainian teenagers home after an exchange trip crashed on a motorway in north-west France on Friday.
Mediapart is publishing a series of reports regularly sent to it from inside the Gaza Strip by two young Palestinians. Nour Elassy, a 22-year-old journalist, who is also a poet and writer, and Ibrahim Badra, a 23-year-old journalist and human rights activist, chronicle the grim reality of life and death in Gaza as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to wage a genocidal war against the population of about 2.1 million. “Israel’s goal is no longer hidden, it wants Gaza emptied of Palestinians,” writes Nour Elassy in her first contributions presented here, “and we are beginning to let go of our belief that we can live here, grow here, raise our children here.”
A Paris appeals court has released from detention in mainland France Christian Tein, a leader of the Knak independence movement on France's Pacific Ocean territory of New Caledonia, along with three other Kanak militants, who were all transferred to the mainland after pro-independence revolts shook the archipelago in May 2024.
Georges 'Bill' Pallot and Bruno Desnoues were given four months behind bars along with suspended sentences for selling fake 18th-Century chairs to collectors including the Palace of Versailles and a member of the Qatari royal family.
The number of suicides among prisoners in France is steadily increasing, while overcrowding of prisons is soaring. Often, the families and close entourage of the deceased face a lengthy legal battle to establish the circumstances of their deaths and the eventual responsibility of the prison authorities who, some complain, treat them with insensitivity and even disdain. Feriel Alouti reports on their distressing experiences.
A 31-year-old teaching assistant died on Tuesday moring after she was repeatedly stabbed by a 14-year-old boy during a routine search for weapons in pupils' bags as they arrived at their secondary school in Nogent, north-east France, on Tuesday morning.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of Spain's Vox party and former Czech premier Andrej Babis attended a rally in countryside south of Paris organised by France's far-right RN party, where its figurehead Marine Le Pen was feted amid stinging attacks on the EU and what Salvini called 'an invasion of illegal immigrants, mainly Islamists'.
In what is the first legal move of its kind in France, a woman has filed a formal complaint for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide over the deaths in Gaza of two of her grandchildren, and the wounding of another, all French nationals, during Israeli airstrikes in October 2023. Meanwhile, similar moves are being launched in other countries against named Israeli military personnel accused of committing war crimes. Gwenaelle Lenoir reports.
The approval by the French lower house, the National Assembly, of a posthumous promotion to brigadier general for Alfred Dreyfus, a French army captain who was wrongly convicted in 1894 of giving secrets to the Germans in an infamous case of anti-Semitism, may be followed by his transfer to the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris.
One of France's leading antiques experts, Georges "Bill" Pallot, and award-winning cabinetmaker, Bruno Desnoues, who in March stood trial on charges of fraud and money laundering, and who admitted hoodwinking experts from the Palais de Versailles, will be sentenced on June 11th.
