A group of 170 lawyers representing the victims of the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris have requested their clients receive additional compensation from an insurance fund set up by the French gove ment for the “emotional distress” they suffered. The attacks, which targeted outdoor cafés, a concer...

French bishops pleaded for forgiveness Monday for the "guilty silence" of the Catholic Church following months of damaging revelations over the sexual abuse of children by priests. The Church in France has been rocked by allegations that the Archbishop of Lyon, Philippe Barbarin, covered up the abus...

France's green party EELV on Monday elected MEP and former Greenpeace activist Ya ick Jadot as its candidate for next year's presidential election. Jadot, 49, won the party's primary with 54 percent of the vote, defeating fellow MEP Michele Rivasi who took 40.75 percent. An environmentalist and huma...

President François Hollande on Saturday acknowledged that France bore "broad responsibility" for the inte ment of thousands of Roma by the World War II Vichy regime and in the early months of the post-war gove ment. "The day has come, and this truth must be told," Hollande said in the first presiden...

Fred Dewilde was at the Bataclan music hall on the ill-fated night of November 13, 2015, when more than 90 people were massacred. As the one-year a iversary nears, he tells FRANCE 24 how writing a graphic novel helped him on the road to recovery. The drawings are in black and white and the language ...

French police have begun a vast operation to check the “administrative status” of hundreds of migrants amassed in a makeshift camp in northeaste Paris, days after thousands of people were moved from a larger camp in Calais. Officers backed by riot police converged Monday mo ing on the streets around...

Fresh fires bu ed inside the Calais 'Jungle' Wednesday as French authorities said they were wrapping up a major operation to evacuate and demolish the notorious shantytown. The operation passed off peacefully for the most part, though some migrants torched tents and shelters in a last act of defianc...

Hundreds of police officers converged on the National Assembly in central Paris on Wednesday to protest an ever-increasing workload, outdated equipment and rules restricting their ability to defend themselves. The protest follows almost 10 days of nightly demonstrations in cities across France, spon...

Dozens of migrants stranded in the Calais "Jungle", some of them children, desperately sought a way out Thursday as diggers begin tearing down the last remaining shelters in the bu t-out camp in northe France. To view this video on your mobie device, click here. A day after the official operation to...

Rights activists celebrated a major victory in France on Thursday after the country passed legislation allowing transgender people to legally change their gender without undergoing sterilization. The move comes after a handful of European nations strengthened the rights of transgender people by endi...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy faced a series of verbal attacks on Thursday night, as right-wing rivals sparred in the first of three presidential primary debates. On the debate stage, Sarkozy complained he has been unjustly hounded by legal investigations and found himself fending off atta...

France’s president is facing a chorus of critics for reportedly describing judges as “an institution of cowardice”, suggesting footballers do a little “weight training on their brains", and accusing his former partner of an "odious betrayal". The controversial remarks appeared in a 672-page book tit...

The French president’s candid remarks on the sensitive issue of Islam, part of a wide-ranging collection of interviews that also touch on his troubled private life, have triggered a frenzy on both sides of the political divide. A 672-page doorstopper of a book, “A President Should Not Say That” is t...

The French press has all but written off France’s right-wing presidential primary as a duel between Alain Juppé and Nicolas Sarkozy. The five other candidates in the race hope to use Thursday night’s televised debate to change that impression. The "underdog" presidential hopefuls lashed out at the m...

Two French soldiers were badly wounded in Iraq and two Peshmerga fighters were killed by a booby trapped drone sent by a group related to the Islamic State, Le Monde reported on Tuesday. In what could be the first report of an attack by Islamic State militants on French special forces using a drone,...

Lawyers for the only surviving suspect in last November's attack in Paris say they will no longer defend him because he refuses to speak. Frank Berton and Sven Mary said they've decided to stop representing Salah Abdeslam, who has chosen to remain silent in a protest against his prison conditions, i...

Charities working with refugees and migrants in the camp in Calais are objecting to the gove ment's plan to dismantle the camp and disperse the occupants. Although no date has been a ounced for the closure of the slum-like camp, known as the "jungle," the French gove ment has a ounced it will happen...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame criticised France on Monday after French investigators reopened a investigation into the 1994 assassination of the Rwandan president, a killing that triggered the country’s genocide. “The judicial system of Rwanda is not subordinate to France or France’s interests,” Kag...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has postponed a pla ed visit to France next week after President François Hollande offered to hold a meeting exclusively on the conflict in Syria, according to the Elysée presidential palace. The French presidency a ounced on Tuesday that the Elysée Palace had made c...

Paris demanded on Monday that Britain honour promises to take in migrant children from the notorious Jungle camp in the French port city of Calais, adding to pressure following accusations by the Red Cross that London is dragging its heels. Interior Minister Be ard Cazeneuve said he would press the ...