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The boy was killed instantly and his 24-year-old sister died later of a heart attack after the tragedy at a display at Cholet in western France. 

In the Bastille Day interview the president also called on the French to reduce energy use and waste saying that using less energy was a good thing both "for the climate and also for our energy independence".

Five camp sites and more than 6,200 campers were evacuated around the Dune du Pilat on the Atlantic coast.

English fans scapegoated for the fiasco surrounding the Champions League final to "divert attention" from organisational failures, a scathing French Senate report says.

Opposition politicians deal blow to president after blocking reintroduction of Covid passes for tourists.

Move came amid calls for an inquiry and criticism that Macron had done Uber’s bidding at the expense of workers’ rights and against the will of the left-leaning government he served in as a minister at the time.

The southwest and the Rhone Valley are the regions most likely to be affected by the latest spell of hot weather. 

The leftwing NUPES coalition triggered the motion in the wake of prime minister Élisabeth Borne’s first major speech to the National Assembly.

A Paris magistrate has closed, without bringing charges, a five-year investigation into allegations of rape, sexual harassment and abuse of trust brought against French interior minister Gérald Darmanin by plaintiff Sophie Patterson-Spatz.

A massive leak of data to The Guardian, and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and a number of media organisations reveals how a 90-millon-dollar-per-year lobbying and public relations effort recruited friendly politicians, notably Emmanuel Macron and former EU commissioner Neelie Kroes, to help in its campaign to disrupt Europe's taxi industry.