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France's 34-year-old education minister is appointed as the country's new prime minister and the first to be gay. It's seen as a move by Emmanuel Macron to boost his party's popularity ahead of European elections in June.

The new French energy bill favours the further development of nuclear power and avoids setting targets for solar and wind power.

President  Emmanuel Macron is preparing a long-awaited cabinet reshuffle. 

Fifty specialists on addiction have written an open letter, lamenting the lack of government support for the post-festivity no-drinks campaign in France.

Emmanuel Macron praised former finance minister and European Union leader Jacques Delors at a state funeral on Friday.

Striking workers at landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and Normandy's Mont Saint Michel complain of underinvestment and too many visitors. 

The Court of Accounts, which audits spending in France, said intelligence provided by the UK to French police was often "first level" and "very general".

Months after the coup, Paris says conditions on the ground are ‘making it impossible’ for the embassy to carry out its missions.

The more than 300 Indian nationals travelling aboard a chartered Airbus en-route for Nicaragua which was briefly impounded during a refueling stop last week in France over suspicions of human trafficking are believed to have been hoping to benefit from Managua's relaxed entry visa requirements in order to later reach the US.

All Eurostar services between London and Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam were cancelled on Saturday due to the flooding of a rail tunnel under the River Thames, leaving thousands of passengers stranded on both sides of the Channel.