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Margaux Pinot Pinot accused her partner and judo trainer Alain Schmitt of punching and attempting to strangle her during an altercation but a court threw out the case for lack of proof. 

Move would ‘compromise sovereignty’ and UK should sort out alternative to people’s perilous Channel crossings, says French prime minister.

President of Paris region Valérie Pecresse will face Eric Ciotti, a staunch right-winger, in the runoff to be Les Republicains’ candidate in the French presidential election in April.

A statement from the Paris regional health authority said the case, a man between ages 50 and 60, tested positive on November 25th following his return from a trip to Nigeria.

Heavy investment in wind farms is vital to meeting net zero goals but the sector is becoming a contentious political issue in France. 

Shelters outside Dunkirk used by the 27 who died at sea dismantled in latest attempt to disperse refugees.

The polemicist is trying to re-energize campaign after recent stumbles and a slide in the polls. 

The US-born artist and resistance fighter is the first black woman to join hall of French greats.

The person is a 53-year old man who had travelled to Mozambique and made a stop-over in South Africa and who  returned to La Réunion around two weeks ago.

Far-right polemicist Éric Zemmour, who is forecast to announce this week he is standing in France's 2022 presidential elections,  has admittted he was 'inelegant' in returning a middle-finger gesture to a woman during his campaigning in Marseille, when he joined the gesture with the comment, 'and very deep'.