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 o...

A Paris court on Tuesday jailed 35 former porters from the prestigious Drouot auction house for stealing precious antiques, jewels and artworks in an insider racket thought to date back decades. The defendants, who transported and stored objects destined for sale by Drouot, were found guilty of help...

Since the begi ing of the summer, the number of migrants in the Calais "Jungle" camp has risen, and locals are reaching saturation point. On Monday, truckers and farmers blockaded the main A16 motorway to demand the dismantling of France’s largest migrant camp. Our colleagues from France 2 went to m...

President François Hollande on Tuesday declared that France and Vietnam had “overcome” their conflictive past during a historic visit to the Southeast Asian country, which was marked by lucrative deals for French aviation giant Airbus. Speaking to French expatriates in the Vietnamese commercial hub ...

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls issued a ste rebuke to the New York Times on Monday after the newspaper published an article he claimed painted a “false” and “intolerable” picture of what life as a Muslim woman is like in France. The US newspaper published the article on Friday after appealing fo...

France expressed conce on Monday about the safety of several of its nationals following violence in its former colony Gabon triggered by a disputed presidential election. Fighting erupted in Gabon last week after the a ouncement of a slim victory for incumbent President Ali Bongo. At least six peopl...

A Paris prosecutor has requested a criminal trial for former President Nicolas Sarkozy over suspected illegal overspending on his failed 2012 re-election campaign. The Paris prosecutor's office said Monday it has asked investigating judges to send Sarkozy and 13 others to court in the case. It's now...

Truckers, dock workers, farmers and merchants are blocking a major highway in northe France to demand the closure of the Calais migrant camp known as the "jungle," as its population surges and tensions rise. Local authorities are urging travelers to avoid the area in hopes of limiting disruption fro...

Greek AFP photographer Aris Messinis has covered conflicts in Libya and Syria, but it was for his dramatic images of a migrant crisis on his doorstep that he was honoured Saturday at photojou alism's biggest a ual festival. Messinis won the Visa d'Or for News, the most prestigious award handed out a...

Several thousand ethnic Chinese staged a protest march in Paris on Sunday over the fatal mugging of a Chinese tailor last month, as crime against community members has spiralled. The protesters, almost all wearing white T-shirts reading "Security for All" and many waving French flags, rallied at the...

Former economy minister Emmanuel Macron, who resigned from the French gove ment on Tuesday, criticised President François Hollande’s gove ment for not pushing hard enough for fiscal reforms in an interview published on Sunday. “I kept trying, proposing, pushing ... If you want to succeed you ca ot l...

A cartoon published in French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo seemingly making light of the suffering of the victims of Italy’s recent earthquake has created a furore in Italy and beyond. The cartoons, entitled "Earthquake Italian-style”, show a balding man covered in blood with the caption "Pe e i...

The "Jungle" camp in the northe French town of Calais, home to thousands of migrants hoping to reach Britain, will be dismantled in stages, the country's interior minister vowed on Thursday. Interior Minister Be ard Cazeneuve told a regional paper that he would press ahead with the closure "with the...

Around 12 million children went back to school across France on Thursday as the gove ment unveiled a series of security procedures and guidelines designed to help teachers in the event of a terrorist attack. An otherwise normal retu to classes, or la rentrée as it is known in France, has been marked...

Renowned French photojou alist Marc Riboud, whose 1967 snap of a protester confronting US soldiers with a flower came to define the anti-war movement, has died aged 93 after a long illness. The iconic photo of the young "flower power" girl helped shift public opinion against the Vietnam War. It also...

Emmanuel Macron’s presidential ambitions are among the worst-kept secrets in French politics. But experts wa the former “maverick” economy minister, who quit the gove ment this week, will struggle under his own ba er. “It was time I set sail on a lighter vessel,” the 38-year-old told reporters as he...