A police investigation has been launched after several cars belonging to Orthodox Jewish tourists - including a group from London - staying in the French Alpine resort of Chatel, close to the Swiss border, were spray-painted with the slogan 'Free Palestine'.
Emmanuel Macron has responded angrily to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent charge that the French president's intention to formally recognise the existence of a Palestinian state at next month’s UN general assembly has fuelled a rise in anti-Semitism in France.
Police in Paris are questioning a man held on suspicion of murder after the discovery of the corpses of four men floating in the River Seine, three of which were in an advanced state of decomposition, at a spot just outside the French capital.
Prosecutors in Nice are investigating the death of a 46-year-old man, Raphaël Graven, during a live video published on the Kick platform, part of a long-running online show in which he was humiliated and abused, the existence of which was first revealed by Mediapart in December last year.
The heatwave that hung over much of France since early August, with temperatures exceeding 40°C in parts of the country, finally lifted this week. In parallel, and less talked about, a marine heatwave was in progress in the Mediterranean Sea, with water temperatures off the French coast reaching close to 30°C. It was the last of many recorded over recent years in the waters of the Mediterranean which, over the first half of 2025, reached their warmest-ever on record. The acceleration of the sea’s heatwaves is alarming scientists, and leave behind decimated ecosystems. Mickaël Correia reports.
An online petition launched by French art historian Didier Rykner has drawn more than 40,000 signatures in protest at the decision to loan to Britain for an exibition the famous 70-metre-long Bayeux Tapestry that tells the story of the 1066 Norman conquest of England, citing its fragile condition.
The regularity of heatwaves in Paris over recent years, including two this summer, city officlas believe temperatures could reach 50° Celsius in future events, with modelling suggesting a catastrohic domino effect that would bring vital services to a halt, and have begun planning for the worst.
France’s south-east region of Provence is famed for its production of lavender and hybrid lavender, called lavandin, a symbol of the summer when the blue and mauve flowers of the plants explode in colour and heady fragrance. But many of the century-old plantations are facing an increasing double threat to their existence, from over-production and climate change. Pierre Isnard-Dupuy reports on the crisis from France’s Valensole plateau, traditionally a major centre of the country's lavender trade, where some are turning to alternative, and notably organic, methods for growing the coveted aromatic plant.
French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Washington on Monday, joining a delegation of European leaders, the European Commission president and Nato Secretary-General to give support to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the occasion of his meeting with US President Donald Trump.
France has demanded the 'immediate release' of a member of its embassy staff in Mali, who was arrested on accusations that he was helping intelligence services to 'destabilise' the West African country, which has distanced itself from France over recent years in favour of close relations with Russia.
The French president announced 'every effort will be made' to punish those who cut down an olive tree planted in a Paris suburb as a memorial to Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jewish man who was kidnapped and tortured by a gang in 2006 and who died from his horrific injuries.
A violent mob of youths prevented an open-air public screening of the film Barbie in a low-income Paris suburb, claiming it promoted homosexuality and demeaned women, igniting a political row over alleged attempts by hardline Muslims to influence social behaviour in districts with large immigrant populations.
Israel has claimed responsibility for the assassinations in Gaza on August 10th of a group of Gazan journalists working for the TV channel Al Jazeera, and alleged that one of them, reporter Anas al-Sharif, was "the head of a Hamas terrorist cell". The Israeli military have carried out an unprecedented number of executions of Palestinian journalists, writes Mediapart co-founder Edwy Plenel in this op-ed article. He argues that the slaughter of local reporters in Gaza, to where no international media can gain access, is in order to eliminate the evidence of the crimes being committed there.
France waged a 'war' with 'repressive violence' before and even after its former colony gained independence in 1960, declared French President Emmanuel Macron in a letter sent to his Cameroonian counterpart Paul Biya in July and made public on Tuesday.
Three reactors at the Gravelines nuclear plant near Calais in north-est France shut down automatically after their coolant water filters became jammed by what operator EDF said was a 'massive and unpredictable' swarm of jellyfish.
