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In a TV debate PM Gabriel Attal and far-right party leader Jordan Bardella presented radically different views of the European Union, ahead of the June 9 European Parliament elections.

The actor has been accused by six women of sexual violence, in a joint investigation by Médiapart and online magazine Cheek.

Reports say investigators looking into possibility that Russian security services ordered the vandalism in Paris.

French foreign minister says recognizing a Palestinian state now would 'not have much impact'.

On a visit to the overseas territory, the French president said a 3,000-strong security force deployed from France will remain - even during the Paris Summer Olympics if required.

The French Pacific territory has been gripped by days of deadly unrest; indigenous people have long sought independence there.

Milllions of people are expected in Paris this summer to follow the Olympic Games amid a significant rise in France in the numbers of cases of dengue fever, and an increasing presence of the tiger mosquito that spreads the disease.

For the third time in a week, French President Emmanuel Macron held a meeting on Monday evening of his government's defence and national security council to review the crisis in France's Pacific Ocean territory of New Caledonia, where normal activity has been severely disrupted by road blocks and rioting in protest over a planned reform of the electoral register which will dilute the political representation of the indigenous Kanak people. 

A man died on Saturday after being shot while trying to pass through a roadblock in the north of the main island of France's Pacific Ocean territory of New Caledonia, where violence erupted last week amid high political tensions between Paris and the archipelago's indiginous Kanak people.

A new postage stamp issued by the French post office for international letters features a picture of a baguette which when scratched lets loose the smell of baked dough.