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This brings to seven the number of people from France held in the protest-wracked country.

Cardinal Ricard admitted to committing a "reprehensible" act on a 14-year-old; an independent commission said that French clergy had abused 330,000 children over 70 years.

French government calls Italy ‘inhumane’ for refusing vessel but Italian PM hits back as rift deepens.

Tensions between the two neighbours have escalated since Italy's new government barred the Ocean Viking ship from docking with 230 migrants.

In an official announcement, French president Emmanuel Macron said a new strategy would be worked out with African partners.

France’s transparency watchdog has opened an investigation into energy transition minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher’s role in a previously unknown inheritance scheme.

French government calls Rome’s refusal to let boat carrying 234 asylum seekers dock ‘unacceptable’.

Macron held meeting at Élysée with heads of some 50 industrial sites in France, accounting for about 10% of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions.

A study by the French finance ministry has concluded that the food industry as a whole, including retail chains, has not overpriced goods under cover of inflation, and that retail prices have risen mainly due to the high cost of agricultural raw materials.

The French Catholic Church has named 11 serving or former bishops accused of sexual abuse, including Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, 78, now retired after serving 18 years as bishop of Bordeaux, who has admitted his 'reprehensible' behaviour in relations with a 14-year-old girl when he was a parish priest 35 years ago.