Paris has called off a meeting due in London this week between France's armed forces minister and her British counterpart amid a heightening row over Australia’s decision to abandon a deal to buy 12 French diesel-electric submarines in favour of a pact with the US and UK.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has rejected accusations by French ministers that his government had shown duplicity in its decision to abandon a 56-billion-euro diesel-powered submarine deal with France, saying he had always been clear about the position of Australia, which has instead opted for nuclear-driven vessels in an agreement with the US and UK.
Nathan Paulin, 27, thrilled crowds as he successfully crossed the River Seine from the Eiffel Tower, balancing himself on a 600-metre-long slackline at a height of 70 metres, saying afterwards that the feat 'wasn't easy' but that it 'was still beautiful'.
Almost two and a half years after it was almost destroyed by fire, work to secure the structure of Notre-Dame cathedral has been completed, making way now for the restoration of the Paris landmark which is due to reopen to the public in 2024.
French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the order to bring the ambassadors back to Paris 'immediately', the first time such a move has been taken regarding the US since the the American war of independence, was made at the request of French President Emmanuel Macron.
French education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has called on school staff to be vigilant over eventual bullying prompted by an unexplained viral campaign of online posts targeting children born in 2010, and which have attracted millions of views.
A 23-year-old French woman who has been living in Britain over the past year, and who has applied for residency status as required of EU citizens by post-Brexit regulations, was detained for more than eight hours when she re-entered the country at London's Gatwick airport last month.
The French government has announced that Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi died after a strike by France's Operation Barkhane force, which fights Islamist militants in the Sahel, mostly in Mali, Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso.
French health minister Olivier Véran has announced that around 3,000 healthcare workers acroos France have been suspended from duty without pay after failing to meet the deadline they were given to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
At least nine people have drowned this week, while others had to be rescued, after attempting to swim in particularly rough and windy conditions along the Mediterranean coast in southern France.
