A manhunt was underway on Sunday in the French south-western département of Dordogne after an armed former soldier shot at gendarmes responding to a call about a domestic incident, then fled into a wooded area. The incident took place in the village...
France will lift domestic travel restrictions from May 3, Prime Minister Jean Castex told reporters on Thursday. Current restrictions limit people's travel to a 10-kilometre radius of their homes. The announcement came as authorities said France's health situation was "improving"....
Pakistan’s Parliament is expected to consider a resolution on Tuesday about whether the French envoy should be expelled over the publication of controversial cartoons depicting Islam’s Prophet, testing whether the government gives in to threats from radical Islamists. Under the...
French Prime Minister Jean Castex is expected to detail new coronavirus restrictions on Thursday, including a potential lockdown in the Paris region and in the north of the country, as the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care units spikes....
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial Wednesday over claims of illicit financing for his failed 2012 re-election bid, just two weeks after a landmark conviction for corruption. On March 1, the 66-year-old became France's first post-war president to be...
The coronavirus situation is worsening in the greater Paris region where hospitals are under immense strain, the director general of the AP-HP Paris hospitals organisation, Martin Hirsch, said on Wednesday. Hirsch told RTL radio there were two options to contain...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he hopes France will get rid of Emmanuel Macron as soon as possible, the latest salvo in an escalating war of words between the two leaders. Turkey is embroiled in a series...
The French government has decided to "totally rewrite" part of a new controversial security law that has sparked nationwide protests, amid a raging debate over police violence and accountability. The move, interpreted as a climbdown, was announced on Monday by...
French politicians say they will totally rewrite part of a controversial security bill amid national outrage over a police assault on a black man. There were huge protests across France on Saturday against Article 24 of the bill, which aims...
France's Muslim Council is due to meet President Emmanuel Macron this week, to confirm the text of a new "charter of republican values" for imams in the country to sign. The Council (CFCM), which represents nine separate Muslim associations, has...
