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A nationwide day of action called by one of France's major cross-trades unions, the CGT, in support of pay rises and against President Emmanuel Macron's announced plan to raise the retirement age on full benefits from 62 to 65, drew a turnout of 250,000 marchers according to organisers, and around half of that total according to the interior ministry.

The senate’s delegation for women’s rights and gender equality on Wednesday presented the conclusions of its six-month inquiry into the French porn industry, which it said 'massively perpetrated violence' in the making of films, and denounced the wide and increasing access of minors to pornographic content.

French foreign minister Catherine Colonna on Tuesday made her third visit to Ukraine since taking up her post in May,  holding talks in Kyiv with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba and with Ukraine's top prosecutor, Andriy Kostin. 

The visit, planned for December, will 'underscore the deep and enduring relationship between the United States and France, our oldest ally', said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Footage has emerged of a crashed, freight-carrying Boeing 737, chartered by France’s postal services, which ran into difficulties while landing amid heavy storms overnight on Saturday at Montpellier, southern France, when it left the runway and ended nose-first in a nearby lake.   

France's CGT trades union has called for a day of action on Thursday is support of pay increases to ease the cost of living crisis, and against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

TotalEnergies and QatarEnergy will collaborate on the North Field South project, a section of the world's largest single gas field nin a deal that could boost gas supplies to Europe from the Gulf state within four years.

At the trial in Paris of eight people accused of helping Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel prepare his terrorist attack in the Riviera city of Nice on July 14th 2016, when he killed 86 people and injured hundreds of others by driving a truck into crowds along the seafront Promenade des Anglais, survivors have begun telling the court of the horrific scenes they witnessed.

Three French police officers have been handed suspended jail sentences after being found guilty of manslaughter during the arrest in 2015 a Paris bar of 33-year-old Amadou Koumé, upon who they applied a chokehold which led to his death from what a medical expert called slow ‘mechanical asphyxia’

MP Adrien Quatennens, 32, who as coordinator of the radical-left LFI party was effectively its second most senior official, has stood down from the post after admitting to having slapped his wife, while the public support he received from LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has prompted controversy within the party and outrage among feminists.