French Interior Minister Be ard Cazeneuve has ruled out sharing details of individuals on the intelligence services’ watch list with town mayors, he told weekly newspaper Le Jou al du Dimanche. Suspects on the so-called “Fiche S” watch list are “under surveillance but not under official investigatio...

French President François Hollande has slammed an "unspeakable" attack on French police after four officers were injured in a Paris suburb on Saturday when their vehicles were set ablaze by incendiary bombs. The attack in Grande Bo e, a run-down residential area built in the 1960s in the southe subu...

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Friday committed one billion euros on behalf of the French gove ment to support Paris's bid to host the 2024 Olympics. The French capital is one of four candidates including Budapest, Los Angeles and Rome to have submitted bids outlining their financing to the I...

Thousands of demonstrators gathered Saturday at the site of a controversial pla ed airport in weste France in a last-ditch attempt to prevent construction. Protesters, who have been camped out in the so-called ZAD (acronym for “Zone to Defend) at Notre-Dame-des-Landes near the city of Nantes are det...

Belgian police missed 13 opportunities to unmask the participants of the deadly Paris November attacks before the events, according to an inte al report leaked to a newspaper on Saturday. The police report in the De Tijd daily shows that as early as February 2015, the force were in possession of pho...

A collection of love letters from former French president François Mitterrand to his longtime mistress, A e Pingeot, hits the bookstands next week. But the French media already can't get enough of their former president's illicit love life. An image from a blustery January 1996 afte oon, when Mitter...

France’s foreign minister told Russia Friday there was no justification for the fierce assault on Syria’s Aleppo, as Moscow said it was ready to “work on” a French-drafted UN resolution seeking to allow aid into the besieged city. “What is happening in Aleppo is without precedent – nothing can justi...

The bitter public feud between French far-right firebrand Jean-Marie Le Pen and his daughter Marine entered a fourth round on Wednesday, as the elderly provocateur retu ed to court to try to overtu his ouster from the National Front (FN). The FN's 88-year-old founder was last year kicked out of the ...

Thousands of left-wing voters in France are considering casting ballots in November’s primary to choose the conservative presidential nominee in an effort to derail a comeback by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy. Three recent studies reveal that between 260,000 and 560,000 traditionally leftist voters m...

France is sick because politicians throw taxpayers money at problems instead of addressing them properly, presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday as he set out a first batch of ideas to reform the country's political system. The former economy minister who quit President Francois Hollan...

France’s tourism sector on Tuesday urged French authorities to set up a special police force in Paris to fight crime targeting tourists as safety fears curb the number of visitors to the French capital. Foreign tourist arrivals to France could fall 4-5 percent this year following Islamic militant at...

Designer Karl Lagerfeld tu ed Paris's vast Grand Palais into a computer data centre Tuesday for a Chanel show that was as retro as it was futurist. Two models wearing white robot helmets led out a collection which mixed Chanel's classic Jackie Ke edy-style suits in computer wire colours with slinky ...

France’s Socialist gove ment has a ounced orders for 15 high-speed trains, mostly for tracks on which they ca ot run at their maximum speed, in a pre-election bid to preserve jobs at a historic Alstom plant. Industry Minister Christophe Sirugue outlined the plan at a Tuesday mo ing meeting in Belfor...

Pope Francis has authorised the French church to start the preliminary sainthood investigation for Jacques Hamel, a priest whose throat was slit by Islamic militants as he celebrated Mass in July. Francis told reporters Sunday that he had authorised the gathering of witness testimony to determine if...

The French state system is being taken to court over the proliferation of rats, cockroaches and bedbugs at an overpopulated prison. According to France Inter radio on Monday, the France-based Inte ational Prisons Observatory (OIP) has lodged a complaint at a court in Melun, complaining about conditi...

A Franco-Tunisian Red Cross staffer kidnapped in Yemen almost a year ago was freed on Monday and taken to Muscat, the Omani foreign ministry said. The Omani foreign ministry said the release of Nourane Houas was secured "at the request of the French authorities, the instructions of Sultan Qaboos and...

Inte ational 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 with French President François Hollande on Sunday at the Elysée Palace, wher...

Catholic parishioners in a small town in northe France are gathering on Sunday for the solemn reopening of a church where a priest was murdered by teenage jihadists this summer. The Saint-Etie e-du-Rouvray church near the city of Rouen held a special penitential mass to mark the occasion and pay tri...

French fighter jets took off from the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle on Friday for an operation against the Islamic State jihadist organisation (IS) in its Iraqi stronghold of Mosul, an officer said. Eight jets took off from the carrier in the easte Mediterranean, an AFP photographer on the flig...

Environment ministers from all 28 European Union states agreed on Friday to a fast-track, collective ratification of last year’s UN Paris climate deal, the EU said. “All member states greenlight early EU ratification of Paris Agreement. What some believed impossible is now real,” tweeted European Co...