A 16-year-old pupil is in police custody after he stabbed and killed a woman teacher during class at a school in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, in south-west France, on Wednesday morning, reportedly claiming he was 'posessed'.
In an interview with French media, President Emmanuel Macron argued for increased military support for Ukraine to see Russia defeated, but said he did not agree with those who 'want to, above all else, crush Russia', adding that past attempts around the world for regime change have ended in 'total failure'.
Aurélien Pradié , deputy leader of France's Les Républicains party, which is supporting President Emmanuel Macron's draft lesgislation to raise the retirment age, now being debated in parliament, has been sacked over his public opposition to the bill.
EDF has announced yearly losses for 2022 of nearly 18 billion euros and debts of 64.5 billion euros, due in part to exceptional numbers of repairs to its fleet of nuclear reactors and a resulting drop in electricity production, a French government cap on energy prices for consumers, and EDF's legal obligation to sell electricity at a loss to smaller utility firms.
At the end of a four-week trial, a Paris court has acquitted nine out of a far-right group of 13 men and women aged between 26 and 66 accused of plotting a knife attack against President Emmanuel Macron in 2018.
France has more combat aircraft, more frigates and more troops than Britain despite spending significantly less on defence, according to the military balance, an annual comparison of the strengths of armed forces around the world by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Rachid M’Barki, an anchor at French rolling TV news channel BFMTV, has been suspended over allegations that multiple stories broadcast on his show included propaganda supplied by an Israeli firm including one that suggested sanctions imposed against Russian oligarchs were damaging the yachting industry in the Mediterranean principality of Monaco.
An independent review commissioned by UEFA into last year's Champions League final in Paris, when Liverpool fans were teargassed, trapped in lengthy queues and mugged, has found the European football governing authority primarily responsible for the chaos, but also blamed France's police authorities and the country's football federation.
Rachid Hami's film Pour la France tells the story of his brother Jallal Hami, 24, who drowned after officers ordered him and other new recruits to the elite military school Saint-Cyr to swim an icy lake in heavy gear during a midnight initiation 'exercise'.
