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 Finance minister Bruno Le Maire cut the country’s 2021 GDP growth forecast to 5% from 6%, following an 8.1% contraction last year.

Agnès Callamard says justice is being denied over killings of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon in Mali in 2013.

The French president has imposed a national lockdown, but he still will not own up to his mistakes and broken promises, argues academic Philippe Marlière.

Call to address severe poverty and illegal immigration on the Indian Ocean island, ten years after it officially became the 101st department of France. 

French journalist Sandra Muller, who coined the viral hashtag #balancetonporc ("expose your pig"),  had been sued by the man she accused of sexual harassment.

French president said in TV address that 'we will lose control if we do not move now', adding that France faces a 'race against the clock'.

Witnesses to the January attack describe aerial attack on a wedding but French officials claim the gathering was of armed extremists.

The draft law - dismissed as inadequate by critics - contains work by 150 randomly-selected French citizens who made more than 100 proposals to fight global warming.

A court has found French drugmaker Servier guilty of "involuntary manslaughter" over a weight loss pill that has been blamed for hundreds of deaths.

Tens of thousands of people in Paris and Lyon rallied to voice their opposition to a new bill on the climate that activists say does not go far enough.