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Jean-Marie Le Pen placed 'under legal protection'

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Former leader of the French far right Jean-Marie Le Pen, 95, under legal guardianship at the request of his family as his health declines.

Prosecutor opens probe into Macron’s former PM Édouard Philippe

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The former prime minster and presidential hopeful is one of France’s most favorably regarded politicians. 

France bans 800 people from Paris Olympics

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Interior minister says those who 'did not have good intentions' included ‘radical Islamists’ and ‘ecology people who want to protest’.

France to send armoured vehicles and missiles to Ukraine

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Defence minister Sébastien Lecornu has confirmed France will deliver hundreds of old armoured vehicles and new surface-to-air missiles to Kyiv.

Remains found of boy who had been missing in France since July

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Forensic tests carried out on the bones showed they belonged to Émile,  who was in the French Alps to spend the summer with his grandparents, and was last seen walking along a nearby street.

France denies supplying arms to Israel for Gaza war

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Marseille-based firm Eurolinks sold Israel M27 links, metal pieces used to join rifle cartridges into ammunition belts for machine guns, investigative websites Disclose and Marsactu wrote.

French parliament backs bill against hair discrimination

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The law will bar employers from requiring hair to be straightened and for afros, dreadlocks and braids to be covered. 

France to sue student over school headscarf row

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French prime minister Gabriel Attal said the pupil falsely accusing her former principal of assaulting her after he made her remove her headscarf on school premises.

France plans to restrict jobless benefits, PM says

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Prime minister Gabriel Attal made the announcement as he outlined the government's plans to further reform the job market.

French school head quits over veil row and death threats

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Head of Paris school had been sent death threats after he insisted that a teenage girl remove her Islamic head-covering inside the school, in accordance with French law.