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The French Catholic Church has named 11 serving or former bishops accused of sexual abuse, including Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, 78, now retired after serving 18 years as bishop of Bordeaux, who has admitted his 'reprehensible' behaviour in relations with a 14-year-old girl when he was a parish priest 35 years ago.

President Emmanuel Macron has launched a video on social media asking the public to give him their views on what French policies on climate change should be, and promising to respond to comments prompted by the invitiation this coming week, as he attends the COP 27 climate talks in Egypt.

Election of the 27-year-old as president of Rassemblement National will leave Marine Le Pen to focus instead on leading the party's group in parliament.

Grégoire de Fournas, a member of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN), or National Rally, will also lose half his salary for two months. 

A far-right MP was accused of yelling "back to Africa" to a black colleague posing a question on migrant arrivals to the government. 

The Paris criminal court found Kunti Kamara guilty of crimes against civilians between 1993 and 1994.

Government will make it easier to obtain residency permits for those who work in sectors struggling to find workers.

Last month was far warmer than the previous record in October 2001.

Jérôme Hugonnot, a French-Australian national who works in Chad for the ONG Sahara Conservation Fund, was reported to have been kidnapped on Friday in the north-central African country.

Michel Mercier, 75, who served as minister for rural affairs and regional planning from 2009 to 2010 and as justice minister from 2010 to 2012, is accused of employing his wife and daughter and a phantom part-time parliamentary assistant for fake jobs paid out of parliamentary funds.