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Salah Hammouri, 37, a joint Palestinian-French national and human rights lawyer who was being kept in detention in Israel accused of terrorist activity, was on Sunday deported to France.

At least ten people, including five children, died and at least 14 others were injured in a fire that swept a residential building in the Vaulx-en-Velin suburb of Lyon in the early hours of Friday.

Police in Montpellier, southern France, are hunting for the driver of a car which ran into and killed a young teenage boy during clashes which followed Wednesday evening's World Cup match between France and Morocco

Adrien Quatennens, a lawmaker (MP) in France's National Assembly, the parliamentary lower house,  and once a rising star of the  radical-left LFI party, has been handed a four-month suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay 2,000 euros in damages for physical and psychological violence directed against his estranged wife.

Bernard Laporte, World Rugby vice-chairman and president of the French rugby federation, has been found guilty on corruption charges by a French court, including of influence peddling and illegally acquiring assets, and was on Tuesday handed a two-year suspended prison sentence and fined 75,000 euros.

Emmanuel Macron has announced a delay to the expected announcement this month of his reform of the retirement age to bring it to 64 or 65, up from 62, citing the need to give more opportunity for discussions, but which critics say is down to delaying tactics to avoid unrest over the immediate winter period. 

An international donor conference in Paris on Tuesday racked up substantial promises of financial and in-kind support for Ukraine in response to sustained Russian aerial bombardment of critical infrastructure that has plunged millions of civilians into deepening cold and dark.

Seven men and a woman were on Tuesday sentenced to jail terms of between two and 18 years at the end of their trial on charges of helping Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel before he drove a 21-tonne truck into seafront crowds celebrating Bastill Day in Nice in 2016, killing 86 people and injuring hundreds of others.

Ciotti, who is on record as saying he wants to stop what he calls a "migratory invasion" of France, won 53.7% of the votes against senator Bruno Retailleau, who scored 46.3%.

Thierry Marx says undeclared foreign employees in the hotel, restaurant and catering sectors should be given resident permits so they can stay in France.