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Emergency workers were deployed after the incident at the Armancette glacier near Mont Blanc in southeast France.

Choreograoher Pierre Lacotte helped Nureyev escape KGB agents in Paris and seek asylum at the capital's Le Bourget airport in 1961.

The French president called for the EU to implement its stated policy of "strategic autonomy" and argued the bloc could become a "third pole" alongside China and the United States.

Five people taken to hospital with serious injuries as blaze hampers rescue operation at the site in the city's central La Plaine district. 

Allies don’t always see things the same way, as Emmanuel Macron’s cozy visit to Xi Jinping made abundantly clear, writes the Paris bureau chief of The New York Times.

Samuel Paty was beheaded in 2020 by 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov, who was shot dead by police at the scene of Paty's killing at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.

Xi Jinping thinks France can stop the EU falling further under Joe Biden’s influence. 

Gaël Perdriau, the mayor of Saint-Étienne in south-east France, was placed under formal investigation by three investigating judges at Lyon on Thursday April 6th. His former chief of staff and two others also face a judicial probe.

Riot police had to form a barricade around La Rotonde bistro, which was briefly set on fire, as France saw the 11th day of unrest since January over legislation raising the retirement age by two years to 64.

President Emmanuel Macron met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, as the French leader seeks to dissuade China from supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.