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French president says his country bears a responsibility for hundreds of thousands of deaths, but was not complicit. 

President will address France’s role in 1994 genocide during a visit aimed at normalising ties between the two countries.

Foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian also says France is seeking an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the situation.

France intends to impose a mandatory quarantine on visitors from Britain to prevent the spread of a worrying virus variant first detected in India.

 Several French social media sites say they have been approached by a communications agency which offered them money to spread negative publicity about the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

Proposal comes against a background of international outrage over Belarus's diversion of a Ryanair flight on Sunday and the arrest of a dissident journalist on board. 

With great relish and a straight face, France's president told a series of tall tales in a YouTube video that quickly went viral.

Olivier Dubois this month appeared in a video appealing to authorities to do everything they can to free him from the group holding him.

On TikTok, President Emmanuel tells youths to use the app on anything cultural, including digital platforms...as long as they're French.

President Macron said a status called “died in the service of the republic” would be created to honour public employees who lose their life “in exceptional circumstances”.