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The election of France’s former culture minister Audrey Azoulay as UNESCO's new director-general is partly due to the crisis between Qatar and Saudi-led Gulf countries. On October 13, Azoulay was elected to become UNESCO’s director-genera...

France and Qatar were ruing neck-and-neck in the race to lead the UN's troubled cultural body after a third round of voting Wednesday whittled the field down to five. Qatar's Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari and France's Audrey Azoulay -- both former culture ministers -- had 18 votes apiece in the battle to replace outgoing UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova. Behind them in the secret...

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France © François Guillot / AFP | French Minister of Justice François Bayrou presenting his bill on the "moralisation of public life", on June 1, 2017 Video by FRANCE 24 Text by NEWS WIRES Latest update : 2017-06-14 France's govement is presenting a bill on cleaning up political ethics after y...

French police investigating the 1984 killing of a four-year-old boy arrested three of his relatives Wednesday, raising hopes of a breakthrough in one of the country's most high-profile unsolved murder cases. Gregory Villemin was found, his hands and feet tied, drowned in the cold waters of the Volog...

Police in the northe Belgian city of Antwerp detained a French national on Thursday after he tried to drive a car into a major pedestrian shopping street at high speed.“At about 11am this moing a vehicle entered De Meir at high speed due to which pedestrians had to jump away,” a police spokesman...

Inteational Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach has heaped praise on Paris's bid to host the 2024 Games during a two-day visit to the French capital. Bach met with French athletes and Paris bid leaders before holding talks withFrench President François Hollande on Sunday at the Elysée Palace, where he received a flag from the 1924 Olympics that were held in Paris. In addition to the vintage present, Hollande also had a special message for Bach: "This Olympic flag dates back to nearly a century. It will be a century old when Paris will host the Games in 2024." Paris, which has not hosted the Olympics since those Games, is competing against Budapest and Los Angeles, Rome having dropped out of...

Two Belgian policemen were arrested after helping a group of migrants retu to France after they wound up in Belgium by mistake while heading to Calais, officials said Thursday. French Interior Minister Beard Cazeneuve summoned Belgium's ambassador to France, Vincent Mertens de Wilmars, to "ask for an explanation (and) express his displeasure", the ministry said. The Belgian officers were arrested by their French counterparts in the border town of Nieppe late Tuesday after they brought the 13 Iraqi and Afghan migrants across the frontier. French police said the migrants had originally been in a truck believing they were heading for Calais -- the northe French port from where they wanted to tr...

German police Tuesday arrested three men with forged Syrian passports accused of being Islamic State (IS) group militants and labelled a possible "sleeper cell" with links to the November Paris attackers. More than 200 police commandos took part in the pre-dawn raids in northe Germany to detain the men, who were suspected of either plotting an attack or awaiting orders to commit one. The men were identified only as Mahir al-H., 17, Ibrahim M., 18, and Mohamed A., 26, in a statement issued by federal prosecutors. They left Syria last October and travelled via Turkey and Greece -- a route used by tens of thousands of refugees and migrants -- and arrived in Germany in mid-November. Interior Min...

French police on Friday aounced a new arrest in coection with an abandoned car found to contain gas cylinders in Paris over the weekend. The suspect is the boyfriend of a woman detained Thursday and is thought to have links to radical Islam. The suspect was arrested late on Thursday and was already known to French intelligence services for having links to Islamist radicals, sources close to the investigation told AFP. The suspect's brother is also in custody over his relationship with Larossi A., a jihadist who killed a police couple at their home in a Paris suburb in June, sources said. The latest arrest came just hours after police arrested three women near a train station in Boussy-Saint-...

A car containing several gas cylinders was discovered close to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris over the weekend and its owner, who is now in custody, is on an intelligence services watchlist, police said Wednesday. The Peugeot 607, which had no registration plates, contained seven gas cylinders, one of them empty on the front passenger seat. It was found with its hazard lights flashing, as if to attract attention, two police officials said on Wednesday. “We think he may have been trying to carry out a test-run,” one of the officials said. There was no detonating device present in the car, found on a Seine riverside stretch called the Quai de Montebello, metres from the Notre Dame Cathedral. Do...