After a 25-year-old woman was shot dead on a marked walking trail in central France at the weekend in an apparent boar-hunting accident, politicians campaigning in upcoming presidential elections have joined calls for the introduction of a strict limit on days allowed for hunting, and notably a weekend ban.
The French presidential office said late Sunday that Emmanuel Macron held two phone calls with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during which the latter agreed 'in principle' to a summit with US President Joe Biden over tensions in Ukraine.
Jean-Luc Brunel, 76, a model agency boss suspected of trafficking underage girls for abuse by the late US financier and convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and who was accused of rape by several former models, was found hanged in his cell in the Paris La Santé prison early Saturday.
French economy and finance minister Bruno Le Maire on Friday announced the injection of 2.1 billion euros into the funds of the country's electricity-based utilty giant EDF, to help offset the halting for servicing of nuclear reactors, and the below-market-price supply of electricity, but also timed with the programme announced this week of the building of several more nuclear energy plants.
While stock markets soar, making the world’s wealthy even richer, French luxury brand Hermès says it is to open three new factories to meet demand for its pricey handbags, like the so-called 'Birkin bag', and has opened a leather-working school to train more craftspeople to make them.
A court in Grenoble, south-east France, on Friday sentenced former French army dog handler Nordahl Lelandais, 39, to life imprisonment, with a tariff of 22 years, for the abduction and murder in 2017 of eight-year-old Maëlys De Araujo, his second murder conviction in less than a year.
Amid high diplomatic tensions between France and the military regime in Mali, President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday announced a withdrawl of French military presence in the west African country, deployed nine years ago in a campaign to contain jihadist insurgents.
Four alleged accomplices in the July 2016 murder of 85-year-old French priest Jacques Hamel, whose throat was cut by two teenagers who claimed to be acting in the name of the so-called Islamic State group, has opened in Paris.
An investigation into arson has been opened after a fire, apparently caused by an explosion, swept a residential building in the early hours of Monday in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, close to Perpignan, in southern France, leaving at least seven people dead, including two children, and another 37 people injured.
Transport police shot dead a man who reportedly threatened them with a knife during the early rush hour on Monday inside the Paris Gare du Nord station, the busiest in Europe, which officials later said is not believed to be a terrorist-related incident.
