French President Emmanuel Macron has sharpened his criticism of the regime of Vladimir Putin, saying it had 'accumulated and hardened its aggressiveness – not just against Ukraine, but against all of us', in comments made on Friday, when he welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Paris for the signing of a ten-year bilateral security pact.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Paris on Friday evening where he is due to sign a ten-year security pact with France, including the supply of funds and weapons, similar to one he earlier agreed with Germany.
French President Emmanuel Macron joined with other leaders in the West on Friday to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime following the announcement that Alexei Navalny, the principal opposition figure in Russia, has died in an Arctic penal colony.
Kylian Mbappé, 25, who plays as a striker for the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football club and the national team, has announced he is to leave PSG at the end of the current season, but has not said which club, rumoured to be Real Madrid, he will join.
The French government has anounced it is banning 28 'extremist' Israeli settlers from entering the country for what it said was perpetration of 'violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank'.
France's council of state has ordered media regulator Arcom to investigate the political balance of CNews, part of the Canal+ group owned by billionaire Vincent Bolloré, following a complaint from press freedom organisation Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) accusing the channel of having become a biased 'opinion' broadcaster and Arcom of failing to take action.
The former French colony in the Indian Ocean, now a French overseas territory, has become the centre of fierce social unrest, with many residents blaming undocumented immigration for the deteriorating conditions.
