The family of Adama Traoré, 24, who died while in the custody of three gendarmes in the town of Beaumont-sur-Oise in July 2016, said they will appeal a decision by magistrates investigating the circumstances of his death to dismiss the case against the officers.
French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne has announced her government is to launch a 'new national plan' against the use of tobacco, including a ban on disposable vapes which she said gave 'bad habits' to young people.
Two men from a group of four holidaymakers with dual French and Moroccan nationality were killed when an Algerian coastguards reportedly shot at them after they strayed into Algerian waters on jet skis.
The last of the around 15,000 electric scooters available for rent by phone app on a 'take-it-here-leave-it-there' basis and which have since 2018 flooded - some say encumbered - Parisian streets, were rounded up on Thursday ahead of a ban on the controversial machines that begins on Friday.
Cross-party talks on a proposition by French President Emmanuel Macron to introduce a series of referenda on major issues, in an attempt to unblock his party's predicament in parliament where it is without an absolute majority, ended in the early hours of Thursday after 12 hours of discussions and with opposition party leaders voicing their scepticism over the project.
In an increasingly tense standoff, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that France will not comply with the demand made last Friday by Niger's junta that its ambassador leave the West African country within 48 hours.
Newly appointed education minister Gabriel Attal said that the wearing of long, flowing dresses favoured by some Muslim women would no longer be allowed when the new term begins next week because they violated the French principle of secularism, or laïcité.
Problems for the industry include falling demand as more people drink craft beer; most of the €200m will be used to buy excess stock, with the alcohol sold for use in items such as hand sanitiser, cleaning products and perfume.
In a direct challenge to the president, interior minister Gérald Darmanin warns country must get tough on crime or risk opening door to the hard-Right.
Both shootings - in which the victims were aged 10 and 18 - took place in the Pissevin area of the historic city which has become plagued by drug violence.
