A group of 48 families have filed a 250-million-euro civil suit for gross negligence against Nestlé France over the poisoning of dozens of children, two of whom died, with the E. Coli bacteria after eating pizzas manufactured by the food giant's susbsidiary Buitoni.
Internationally renowned French abstract painter Pierre Soulages, who for four decades explored evolving variations of black, and the contrasting colour and light it can reveal, has died in the town of Sète in southern France at the age of 102.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Paris on Wednesday for lunch and talks with President Emmanuel Macron to a backdrop of increasingly strained relations between their two governments on a variety of issues.
After initially displaying reticence at meeting with Italy's new far-right prime minister during his offical visit to Italy, French President Emmanuel Macron finally held informal talks in Rome on Sunday with Giorgia Meloni, while also posting on Twitter his thanks to outgoing Italian premier Mario Draghi.
An investigation by French public broadcaster Radio France estimates that billions of euros are each year saved by the French social security benefits system through the complex bureaucracy that confronts and deters entitled claimants in need of help.
The women and children were brought back to France from Kurd-controlled camps in Syria where they had been interned after the military collapse of the so-called Isalamic State group in the region, and follows a similar mission in July.
The office of president of the former royal palace and its estate, a museum visited by nearly 20 million people per year and a venue for grand state occasions, built by Louis XIV and which has 1,000 staff, is one of the most desirable of dozens of prestigious posts that the French president can gift to those who have pleased him.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the murder, rape and torture of a 12-year-old girl in Paris earlier this month, for which a 24-year-old Algerian woman has been arrested and placed in preventive detention, was an act of 'extreme evil', while he also praised her family for being 'incredibly dignified and united'.
After often rowdy parliamentary debates, rebellion from members of its own camp, and an avalanche of proposed amendments, the French government has used a controversial constitutional power to bypass the National Assembly, the lower and most powerful house, to ensure its first draft legislation for the 2023 budget is enacted by decree and without a vote by MPs.
In a settlement of a longstanding legal case brought against it by the US Department of Justice, French cement producer Lafarge has accepted a 790-million-euro fine after it pleaded guilty to paying terrorist groups in Syria, and notably the so-called Islamic State group, millions of euros in order to maintain operations of its factory in the country in 2013 and 2014.
