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Health and Social Affairs Minister Marisol Touraine insists new reforms, criticised by the Right as lacking boldness, are no stopgap measure.

French PM Jean-Marc Ayrault has presented intelligence to parliamentarians which he says shows al-Assad regime has used chemical weapons.

Spiegel says America's NSA tapped into computers used by French diplomats to communicate with each other and the foreign ministry in Paris.

Suspicions raised after suspected winged infiltrator spotted with electronic device ...it was just tracker used to monitor stork migration patterns.

Interior Minister Manuel Valls says France will await the U.S. Congress's decision on military action in Syria before making any move itself.

President Hollande remains determined to punish Syria over chemical weapons despite Obama U-turn, as opposition and public opinion unease grows.

Joachim Gauck will go to Oradour-sur-Glane where 642 people were massacred by Nazi soldiers in one of worst war-time atrocities in France.

President Hollande backs Obama decision to get green light from Congress but now faces pressure to put the issue to French parliament.

Diplomat-turned-businessman Boris Boillon, who close to Nicolas Sarkozy, was reportedly stopped at Paris train station with 350,000 euros on him.

The country which defiantly opposed U.S. intervention in Iraq a decade ago emerges as Washington's staunchest supporter for punitive air strikes.