French President Emmanuel Macron appeared for three hours on national television on Tuesday evening to debate policy issues with political opponents in an effort to return to the domestic front he has largely abandoned since his dissolution of parliament last year, but no clear initiatives emerged.
One of cinema's glitzy highspots of the year, the Cannes film festival opened on Tuesday to concerns over President Donald Trump's recent threat to impose 100 percent tarrifs on foreign-made films presented in the US, when the industry is already grappling with the competition from streaming platforms.
The German government and the French presidency have dismissed claims by Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman and Russian social media platforms that Emmanuel Macron, Chancellor Friedrich Merz and British prime minister Keir Starmer snorted cocaine together on the train that took them to Kiev last weekend.
French President Emmanuel Macron is to make a state visit to Britain from July 8th-10th, when King Charles and Queen Camilla will host the president and his wife Brigitte Macron at Windsor Castle.
Armed would-be kidnappers of the daughter of a cryptocurrency businessman and her two-year-old child were fought off in a Paris street on Tuesday and forced to flee, in an incident which follows two kidnappings of cryptocurrency tycoons in France this year.
The US socialite and businesswoman, 44, wept in court in Paris as she recounted the night in October 2016 when a gang burst into her hotel suite and stole an estimated 10 million dollars-worth of jewellery.
French actor Gérard Depardieu has been handed an 18-month jail sentence after a Paris court found him guilty of groping two women during the shooting of a film in 2021, after which his lawyer announced he would appeal the verdict.
Mezzo-soprano Célestine Galli-Marié was the first to perform the lead role in Georges Bizet's operatic masterpiece Carmen in 1875, and her influence in bestowing the character with headstrong and sensual qualities which remain to this day is finally recognised with the publication this year of an autobiography of the star and an album of her greatest hits.
French President Emmanuel Macron hosted Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Nancy, eastern France, on Friday where the two men signed a treaty in which each country is committed to militarily helping the other in case of an attack on either.
Former French prime minister Gabriel Attal is among a group of parliamentarians who have prepared draft legislation to posthumously promote Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 amid a virulent anti-Semitic campaign, and finally rehabilitated after serving several years of a sentence to life in a penal colony, to the rank of brigadier general.
