The Place de la Concorde, once the site of the guillotine that executed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution, is being transformed this week for a very different event:
Rachida Dati, France’s high-profile culture minister and candidate for mayor of Paris, is facing trial alongside Carlos Ghosn, the fugitive former auto executive, over an alleged corruption deal worth €900,000, equivalent to
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French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a pointed message during his state visit to Britain this week, warning that both the UK and France are “dangerously dependent” on the United States and China.
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Windsor Castle is set to host the latest chapter in a century-old tale of cross-Channel diplomacy, as King Charles III welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron for a
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been officially excluded from the prestigious National Order of the Legion of Honor, according to a state decree published on Sunday. The revocation follows Sarkozy’s 2022
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French President Emmanuel Macron issued a powerful call for consistency in global responses to conflict, warning against double standards in international diplomacy during a keynote address at the prestigious Shangri-La Dialogue on
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French lawmakers voted on Tuesday to approve a bill that would legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults, marking a significant cultural and legal shift in a country long seen as cautious
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French President Emmanuel Macron has brushed off speculation surrounding a viral video that appeared to show a tense moment between him and First Lady Brigitte Macron as they arrived in Vietnam over
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A French prosecutor on Friday called for the maximum 20-year prison sentence for former surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec, who admitted to sexually abusing nearly 300 patients—most of them children—over a span of
More France will construct a high-security prison in the heart of the South American jungle to isolate its most dangerous criminals, including drug lords and Islamist radicals, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin announced in
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A disturbing surge in kidnappings targeting cryptocurrency millionaires and their families has raised alarms across France, fueling fears of a ‘Mexicanisation’ of the country’s crime landscape. This wave of abductions, widely reported
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The daughter of French Prime Minister François Bayrou has revealed she was assaulted at a school now at the centre of a widening abuse scandal — one her father is accused of
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President Emmanuel Macron will be granted a full state visit to the United Kingdom next month, several months before U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to visit, in a diplomatic move signaling
More Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is awaiting a verdict in a landmark corruption trial linked to allegations that he accepted millions of euros from the late Libyan dictator Muammer Gaddafi to finance
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France’s national rail operator, SNCF, has declared war on wild boars after their population explosion led to widespread disruptions, significant delays, and millions of euros worth of damage. With the boar population
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A proposed €150bn boost to the EU’s defence industry has reignited tensions between France and Germany, as the two nations clash over whether the funds should be restricted to European-made weaponry or
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