A $24-billion deal to build Britain's first new nuclear power station in decades was signed behind closed doors in London on Thursday in a low-key ceremony that underlined Prime Minister Theresa May's cautious approach to the Franco-Chinese project. Jou alists were not invited to the event but the g...

Anthony Vaccarello made his name with unfeasibly small and sexy dresses, and in his hugely anticipated debut for Saint Laurent late Tuesday at Paris fashion week, the Belgian designer kept his nose clean and his skirts short. If the directors of the iconic French brand, whose profits had rocketed to...

Centrist politician François Bayrou on Sunday said he would run as a candidate in France’s presidential election next year if Nicolas Sarkozy won the right-wing Les Républicains party nomination, in a new affront to the former president. Speaking to supporters gathered in the weste French town of Gu...

Fifteen people go on trial Tuesday over rowdy scenes a year ago in which an Air France executive had his shirt shredded as he fled a mob of workers angry over pla ed job cuts. Images of the incident in France hit screens around the world, showing bare-chested human resources chief Xavier Broseta try...

A new book by a former Elysée Palace advisor threatens to ta ish Nicolas Sarkozy’s image as the conservative politician seeks to reclaim France’s highest office in presidential elections next year. Patrick Buisson, Sarkozy’s controversial and now estranged former adviser, on Thursday is publishing a...

Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front (FN) party, is almost certain to advance to the second round of the country’s 2017 presidential election, according to a new poll published on Thursday. The study – conducted by research centre Elabe for France’s Radio Classique and the news...

A Montenegrin caught in Germany with a car full of weapons a week before November’s Islamist attacks in Paris confessed at the start of his trial on Friday to acting as a gun ru er, but denied knowing what was pla ed with the arsenal. The man in his early 50s, named by prosecutors only as Vlatko V.,...

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls responded late on Thursday to former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s controversial comments earlier this week on the country’s Gaulish ancestry, stating that France was stronger because of its diversity. Valls touted France’s strengths as a multicultural society at the...

French prosecutors have placed two minors, aged 16 and 14, under formal investigation over a false alert that triggered a vast anti-terrorist operation in central Paris last weekend. Investigators say the 16-year-old is one of two hackers who raised the alarm about a supposed hostage crisis at a Par...

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 Be ard Cazeneuve summoned Belgium's ambassador to France, Vincent Mertens de Wilmars, to "ask for ...

Hoping to be nominated by his centre-right party for next year’s presidential election, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy visited Calais this week, where he decried the current gove ment’s “absence of authority” over the migrant situation. But did Sarkozy, who is campaigning for the Les Républ...

India's cabinet committee on security on Wednesday approved the purchase of 36 fighter jets from France's Dassault, a senior Indian defence ministry official said. "The deal was approved at the meeting in the evening. It will now be formally signed by Indian and French defence ministers on September...

France’s Green Party is struggling to gain political momentum eight months before the first round of the country’s presidential elections, even as the ruling Socialist Party takes a pummelling in opinion polls. France’s Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV) party will hold a two-round primary on October ...

The wife of former French president Jacques Chirac was admitted to hospital Wednesday “to rest and recuperate” on the same day a prominent French politician falsely a ounced on Twitter that her husband had died. Be adette Chirac, 83, was said to be “exhausted” following her husband’s hospitalisation...

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Saturday named the young politician David Rachline as the director of her presidential campaign, a risky choice who should appeal to party loyalists, while she reaches out to a broader audience. Le Pen made the widely expected a ouncement during a speech to supporte...

A ceremony to honour the victims of terrorism was held in Paris Monday, with French President François Hollande leading tributes to those killed, injured and bereaved in the recent spate of attacks. Addressing an audience of victims, the bereaved, politicians and officials at the historic Invalides ...

French authorities took a teenager in for questioning on Monday over a false terror alert that mobilised dozens of police officers in Paris on Saturday. Two adolescents had been brazenly bragging about the hoax online. On Saturday, French police received a call from a certain “Father Mathis” claimin...

President François Hollande will be awarded the 2016 “World Statesman Award” at a ceremony in New York on Monday for his “leadership in safeguarding democracy and freedom in a time of terrorist attacks” in France. Hollande, who will already be in New York to attend a United Nations Security Council ...

Just under 30 percent of France’s 3 to 4 million Muslims reject the country’s secular laws, according to an Ifop poll published by the French weekly Jou al du Dimanche. When asked if they considered the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia to be more important than the French Republic’s laws, 29 p...

Former French president Jacques Chirac, 83, was admitted to hospital on Sunday with a lung infection, his son-in-law said. Chirac, who led France from 1995 to 2007, was “hospitalised this mo ing at Pitie-Salpetriere (hospital in Paris) to be treated for a lung infection,” Frederic Salat-Baroux told ...