Date created : 09/01/2019 - 12:03Latest update : 09/01/2019 - 12:05 French foie gras makers have accused the US Supreme Court of bowing to “misinformation” from vegetarian lobbyists with its refusal

Date created : 13/12/2018 - 13:31Latest update : 13/12/2018 - 13:33 The French gove ment on Thursday urged "yellow vest" protesters not to hold another round of demonstrations this weekend as police

[unable to retrieve full-text content]French police on Thursday killed the suspected gunman behind a deadly attack on Strasbourg’s Christmas market who had been on the run for two days. Read FRANCE 24's live blog below to review the events as they unfolded.

Date created : 14/12/2018 - 11:59Latest update : 15/12/2018 - 12:57 Strasbourg reopened its Christmas market on Friday, and President Emmanuel Macron visited the city to pay his respects to victims o

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was charged on Thursday for posting on Twitter gruesome images of purported atrocities by Islamic State jihadists, prosecutors said. The move by a judge in Nanterre, just outside Paris, came after the National Assembly voted in November to strip the National Fro...

Friday’s attack on the French embassy in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou is the fifth in a series of attacks on French embassies in Africa since 2000. Mauritania, 8 August 2009: Three people, two of them French gendarmes, were slightly injured in an Islamist bomb blast on the country’s embassy in...

Four skiers were killed and another injured in an avalanche in the French Alps on Friday and their guide was held for questioning, authorities said. The group of six people was on a ski touring expedition in an off-trail area near Entraunes, close to the Italian border in the southe Alps. The identi...

The French film world may be having its #MeToo moment as one after another, stars showed up at the industry's top awards show Friday wearing a white ribbon in a protest against sexual misconduct. Throughout the Cesar Awards ceremony Friday night, presenters and winners referenced the movement that h...

Dozens of people were killed Friday in twin attacks on the French embassy in Burkina Faso and the country's military headquarters, an assault that coincided with a meeting of regional anti-jihadist forces. The apparently coordinated attacks underlined the struggle the fragile West African nation fac...

President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he was open to adding a specific mention of Corsica in the French Constitution but rejected several other demands for autonomy made by the island's nationalist leaders. Corsica's relationship with mainland France has long troubled French presidents. For 40...

Paris ground to a standstill this week after the heaviest snowfall in nearly 30 years, but was it really all that? Paris hit by “heavy snow”, proclaimed CNN, ABC News, UK newspapers The Telegraph and the Evening Standard, and a host of other media outlets. Not to sound like the current occupant of t...

A Belgian court must acquit Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam over a shootout with police because of a legal language mix-up between Dutch and French, his defence lawyer said Thursday. Abdeslam, 28, refused to come to court in Brussels on Thursday, after accusing judges on the first day of the tr...

French industrial output rose by 0.5 percent in December from the previous month, beating forecasts, according to data from the INSEE national statistics agency. The growth in December industrial production was led by higher production in areas such as metallurgy, software and electronics goods, and...

A French appeals court has upheld the far-right National Front's (FN) decision to expel party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen over anti-Semitic remarks on Friday, but the party’s bid to cut all links with the notorious politician suffered a setback. The appeals court in Versailles ruled that while the FN ...

The French gove ment has proposed plans to address the conce s of prison guards, who continued striking for a 12th day on Friday over security and low pay. But penal reform advocates say the measures will do little to tackle France’s prison crisis. Prison guards backed by unions have launched strike...

President Emmanuel Macron ran for office on a promise to revitalise the economy and shed France’s reputation as a place that is hostile to business. Less than a year into his tenure, his efforts have started to pay off. “France is back,” Macron announced in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Da...

The swollen Seine rose even higher on Sunday, keeping Paris on alert, though forecasters said the flooding should peak by the end of the day. The river had risen 11 centimetres (4.3 inches) in 24 hours by Saturday evening, more than four metres above its normal height, causing headaches for commuter...

The trial of Jawad Bendaoud, landlord to two of the November 13 Paris attackers, became something of a spectacle in the French press this week with the defendant being mocked for his unintentionally comic testimony. Bendaoud, a 31-year-old drug dealer and landlord, rented his apartment in the northe...

The gove ment has unveiled proposals to address the conce s of prison guards, who continued striking for a 12th day on Friday over security and low pay. But advocates of reform say the measures will do little to tackle France’s prison crisis. Across France, prison guards backed by unions have launch...

French President Emmanuel Macron told the world's business elite in Davos on Wednesday that France was back as a European powerhouse under his reformist gove ment. "France is back at the core of Europe," Macron said in English in a highly anticipated speech, before switching to French to outline his...