Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday for a working lunch in what is their third meeting since 2021, when Macron became one of the first Western leaders to shake the prince's hand after Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered inside Riyadh's Istanbul consulate in 2018.
Five trains on busy Line 4 became stuck during the Wednesday evening rush hour, trapping passengers in hot carriages for more than an hour and a half before they were eventually evacuated out of the tunnel, while unrelated incidents also later blocked trains on other lines.
Gabriel Fortin, 48, is accused of gunning down two female human resources directors and a woman jobs centre director, and of attempting to kill a male HR director, all in 2021, after a string of job dismissals.
French foreign minister Catherine Colonna said Russia had mounted a disinformation campaign 'based in particular on the creation of fake web pages impersonating national media and government sites as well as the creation of false accounts on social networks', adding that Russian embassies and cultural centres had 'actively' participated in amplifying the campaign.
French artist Françoise Gilot, an accomplished painter in her own right, whose career was often reduced by the media to her early romantic relationship with Pablo Picasso, from which were born Claude and Paloma Picasso and which she left to successfully pursue her own vocation, has died at a Manhattan hospital at the age of 101.
Dirk Raats, a 71-year-old Dutch man, has been arrested on suspicion of shooting at his British neighbours, killing Solaine Thornton, 11, and wounding her parents, in the village of Saint-Herbot in Brittany, north-west France.
French president Emmanuel Macron on Friday visited the south-eastern town of Annecy, where he visited a 78-year-old man who was among the six victims of a stabbing rampage by a Syrian man on Thursday, and said he had received 'positive' news about the four infants also wounded in the attack.
A British girl and a Dutch boy, both holidaying in France, are among four children aged between 22 months and three years who were wounded along with two adults in a knife attack by a Syrian man in the south-east French town of Annecy, close to the Alps.
Four children, including a three-year-old, were among at least six people wounded, three of them critically, in a knife attack on Thursday in a park in the town of Annecy, close to the French Alps, by a man described by police as a Syrian national who had obtained refugee status in Sweden.
French utility giant EDF is accused by opponents of its proposed wind farm off a D-Day beach in Normandy of 'cynicism' by proposing to name the project's 64 turbines after ships that took part in the landings.
