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Although Macron won’t be heading to China himself – having made a state visit there in April 2023 – his call to Chinese president Xi Jinping signals France’s intent to stay closely engaged with Beijing.

The men were in contact via Telegram with “extremely dangerous” pedophiles who had been in prison since last year, the French authorities said

Move comes after a report to French security meeting declares Muslim Brotherhood movement ‘a threat to national cohesion’.

The official report, prepared by two senior civil servants, is to be examined by France's Defence Council this Wednesday.

An elderly couple died in the seaside town of Le Lavandou and one other person in the town of Vidauban, with one official describing it as like "war scenes".

Leaders of the three nations threatened to take “concrete actions”, including targeted sanctions, if Israel did not stop its renewed military offensive and continued to block aid from entering Gaza.

The five-year Ligue 1 campaign, which aims to promote inclusion and raise awareness about homophobia, was flouted by several players who now face sanctions demanded by sports minister Marie Barsacq.

French justice minister Gérald Darmanin has announced that the 500-capacity jail, to be opened in 2028 in the Amazon jungle in the overseas territory of French Guiana, will house drug traffickers and radical Islamists in an 'extremely strict carceral regime'.

Media reports say the rapper, a major star in France and whose real name was Jeremy Bana Owana, died of a heart attack on Saturday, when he was due to appear at a concert in Lyon.

Unnamed British diplomatic officials cited by The Guardian newspaper have said they believe France will postpone  official recogntion of a Palestinian state next month at the UN, as initially planned by President Emmanuel Macron.