Renault on Saturday confirmed it had been "affected" amid the cyberattacks that targetted organisations worldwide beginning on Friday, with several manufacturing plants in France closed down, while a union official said the company's production lines in Sandouville, Normandy, were directly hit.
Emmanuel Macron is to travel to Germany to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday, the day after his inauguration as France's new president, when the two leaders are expected to seek agreement on measures to strengthen the eurozone.
British journalist Ian Bailey, 60, wanted by France for the 1996 murder in Ireland of film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier, has been summoned to an Irish court hearing on May 31st to decide upon his extradition.
The Trump administration has shown itself only too eager to continue Obama-era policies of providing financial, logistical and intelligence support to France in this region, hoping to avoid having to put American combat forces on the ground in yet another global hot spot.
Telecoms giant SFR has reportedly agreed to pay 350 million euros per year for the rights to broadcast the top-flight pan-European football competition, beating French rival Canal Plus and Qatari-controlled beIN Sports.
The newly renamed La République En Marche (Republic on the Move) movement of French president-elect Emmanuel Macron has revealed a list of 428 candidates it will field in parliamentary elections next month, with a precise parity of men and women, a majority of individuals from civil society and an age gap ranging from 24 to 72, while it has yet to find another 149 in order to fight every constituency.
Admiral Mike Rogers, US National Security Agency director and head of US Cyber Command, told a Senate committee that the agency tipped off its French counterparts before the hack of Emmanuel Macron’s campaign became public 36 hours ahead of the second round of the presidential campaign.
Human remains uncovered in woodland near Rouen in northern France at the weekend have been confirmed after DNA testing as those of Séamus Ruddy, a member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party who disappeared in 1985 when he was working as a school teacher in Paris.
Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, 27, the hardline niece of far-right Front National leader Marine Le Pen and one of the party's two MPs, said she has decided for 'personal and political reasons' to quit active politics in a decision her grandfather Jean-Marie Le Pen described as a 'desertion'.
A circus show in northern France was brought to an abrupt end after a male lion attacked its trainer, mauling him around the throat before being distracted by staff, allowing the victim to flee the cage.
