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Christophe Ruggia is accused of sexually assaulting Haenel - star of films including "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" and "120 Beats Per Minute" -- in the early 2000s when she was under 15.

France's Ministry for Foreign Affairs also called end of Bashar al-Assad's regime an 'historic day for Syria and the Syrian people'. 

French state nuclear company Orano has announced that Niger's junta - which deposed France's ally, President Mohamed Bazoum, in a coup in July 2023 - had taken operational control of its local mining firm.

Inaugural mass was led by Paris archbishop Laurent Ulrich with 150 bishops and more than 100 priests from the capital in attendance, as well as French president Emmanuel Macron.

Donald Trump, the US president-elect, Jill Biden, America’s first lady, the Prince of Wales and Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, are among 1,500 guests attending the reopening event in Paris.

French president was due to have bilateral talks with the leaders on Saturday on the sidelines of the Notre-Dame Cathedral re-opening ceremony.

EU president Ursula von der Leyen announces Mercosur trade accord, delighting her fellow Germans but infuriating France which calls the deal unacceptable.

The president accused Macron accused the French far right and hard left of collaborating in an "anti-republican front" to bring Michel Barnier's government down.

President Macron is expected to move fast to name a replacement for Michel Barnier whose administration was toppled in a no confidence vote on Wednesday. 

The upheaval leaves MPs and senators just 70 days to debate a new 2025 budget plan after the previous one was scrapped with the vote of no-confidence.