Divers plunged into the Seine and sprinters raced on a floating track as the French capital tu ed into a giant Olympic park on Friday in a final push to win the rights for the 2024 Olympic Games. Paris and US rival Los Angeles are the only two cities bidding to stage the “biggest show on earth”, an

France © Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt, AFP | French police officers stand near a bus stuck under the Alexandre III bridge in Paris after an accident on June 23, 2017 Text by FRANCE 24 Follow france24_en on twitter Latest update : 2017-06-23 Four people were injured, one critically, when a double-dec

Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel used the French president's first Brussels summit Friday to deliver an unmistakeable message: their countries intend to lead the EU's post-Brexit revival. The Franco-German power couple held an unusual joint press conference after meeting their 26 European Union cou

In 2016, 1,363 British nationals applied for French citizenship, compared to 385 in 2015, according to figures obtained by Le Monde. Some British nationals did not wait for the start of Brexit negotiations on Monday to prepare themselves for the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. Worried

A man killed while ramming a car loaded with guns and a gas canister into a police van on Paris's Champs-Élysées stored a cache of weapons at his home and had a gun permit, French officials revealed on Tuesday. The man, who has yet to be identified by French prosecutors, held the gun permit despite

France's justice minister, who was preparing a draft law to clean up politics but whose party is targeted for possible investigation, resigned on Wednesday to avoid compromising President Emmanuel Macron's gove ment, according to French media. The resignations of Francois Bayrou and fellow party me

France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen won a seat in parliament for the first time on Sunday, but it was a bittersweet victory that masked an underwhelming election cycle for her National Front (FN) party. The feisty 48-year-old, who lost by a 20-point margin to Emmanuel Macron in May's presidentia

France © Charly Triballeau, AFP | Philippe leaves a polling station in Le Havre, northe France, after voting for the second round of the French parliamentary elections on June 18, 2017 Text by NEWS WIRES Latest update : 2017-06-20 French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday reappointed Edouard

In the second round of legislative elections on Sunday, 223 women were elected to France’s lower house. With 38.65% of seats in the National Assembly, the election marks a new record for female representation in the French parliament. It’s good news for equality: Women now hold 223 seats in the 577-

France’s lower house National Assembly has seen a sweeping renewal after Sunday's second round election brought a considerably younger legislature to the 577-seat chamber. A record 424 first-time National Assembly lawmakers will take their seats in the semi-circular chamber when the first session be

Long known for his anti-establishment views, his election to France’s National Assembly makes leftist jou alist and filmmaker François Ruffin a part of the very system he has been fighting. Ruffin leapt to fame with his 2015 documentary, “Merci Patron!” (Thanks Boss!), which ea ed him a César – th

Marine Le Pen should step down as leader of France’s far-right National Front (FN) after disappointing results in the presidential and parliamentary elections, her father who founded the anti-establishment party said on Tuesday. “You outlive your usefulness when you start harming your party by your

A French jou alist has been killed in Mosul after a mine exploded in the war-to city, public broadcaster France Televisions said Tuesday. Stephan Villeneuve and two other French jou alists were injured in the explosion Monday in Iraq's second city that killed Kurdish reporter Bakhtiyar Addad, ac

France © Bertrand Guay, AFP | Former French defence minister Sylvie Goulard during a ceremony in the Paris suburb of Suresnes on June 18, 2017. Text by NEWS WIRES Latest update : 2017-06-20 French Defence Minister Sylvie Goulard a ounced her resignation on Tuesday over a fake jobs scandal that

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French retailer Carrefour has removed dog meat products from two supermarkets in China after an outcry from animal rights groups. Animals Asia said it had already asked the inte ational chain, which operates over 200 stores in China, to remove dog meat from its shelves in 2012. The company promised

The skyrocketing price of butter could kill off croissants, French bakers and pastry chefs are wa ing, amid growing anger from dairy farmers over the price of wholesale milk. Croissants, the crispy, crescent-shaped breakfast bread cherished by the French, could soon become too expensive to produce,

When polls open in the second round of France's legislative elections Sunday, some French overseas residents will be voting in a contest that's shaping up as a political duel between Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and France's Emmanuel Macron. French residents in Cyprus, Greece, Vatican City, Israel, I