France
Macron's climate referendum stalls as Senate waters down bill
The initiative to state in the constitution that France 'guarantees environmental protection and biological diversity, and combats climate change' originated in...
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Coronavirus: Latest global developments
India reports a record new Covid-19 daily death toll of over 4,000 and more than 400,000 new cases as the country grapples with the world's worst coronavirus surge.
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French prosecutors request judges drop case over Rwanda massacre
A statement said Paris prosecutors had concluded the investigation "did not make it possible to establish that the French forces could have been guilty of the crimes of complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity."
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France worried about Chad's stability after Deby's death
The announcement Tuesday of president Idriss Deby Itno's death from battlefield wounds plunged Chad into uncertainty and alarmed Western leaders who saw him as a key ally in the restless region.
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French porn producer launches code of ethics
The code, which it hopes will be adopted by other producers in France and beyond, has been drawn up by former porn actress Liza Del Sierra alongside a sociologist and lawyer specialising in online intellectual property.
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Macron says 'mobilisation' key to Notre-Dame rebuild target
Visiting Notre-Dame two years to the day after the world watched transfixed in horror as flames ravaged the cathedral, Macron said 'immense' restoration work had already been accomplished since the blaze.
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France to offer free therapy for children affected by COVID
France's social security system will fully reimburse a total of 10 sessions with a psychologist for children aged between three and 17, Macron said on a visit to a psychiatric treatment centre in the city of Reims.
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France opens archives on Rwanda genocide
The archives concern the work of former president Francois Mitterrand and his prime minister Edouard Balladur between 1990 and 1904 when the genocide began, according to a statement issued in France's official journal which publishes government decrees.
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Paris medics fear worst of Covid wave still to come
As one recovered elderly patient is being wheeled out of the ward, smiling weakly, boss Jean-Pierre Deyme is on the phone arranging the next arrival and calling out instructions to staff.
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Macron announces school closures and defends strategy
In an address to the nation, he tightened restrictions significantly on Wednesday, ordering schools shut down, travel restrictions across France, and the closure of non-essential shops around the country.
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'Blind' France bears responsibility in Rwanda genocide, report says
A historical commission set up by President Emmanuel Macron concluded there had been a 'failure' on the part of France under former leader Francois Mitterrand over the genocide that saw around 800,000 people slaughtered, mainly from the ethnic Tutsi minority.
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Germany to list France as COVID-19 high-risk zone
The decision will come into force on Friday and be announced by the national health institute, the Robert Koch Institute, according to the newspaper FAZ.
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UK could add France to 'red list' over variants: PM
France is struggling with a third wave of cases and on Wednesday expanded virus lockdowns to three more areas including the city of Lyon.
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Parisians flee capital, hit shops as new lockdown looms
Trains leaving Montparnasse station in southern Paris - which serves destinations in Brittany and the southwest - were completely full after a rush of bookings late Thursday.
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France's Sarkozy on trial again after graft conviction
On 1 March, the 66-year-old became France's first post-war president to be sentenced to prison when he was given a three-year term, two years of which were suspended, for corruption and influence peddling.
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French billionaire MP Olivier Dassault dies in helicopter crash
Dassault died around 6 pm (1700 GMT) when his aircraft crashed near Deauville in northern France, parliamentary and investigation sources told AFP.
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Macron admits France murdered Algerian independence figure
Macron met four of the grandchildren of Ali Boumendjel and admitted 'in the name of France' that the lawyer had been detained, tortured and killed in Algiers on 23 March 1957, his office said Tuesday.
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French ex-president Sarkozy convicted for corruption
The sentence includes two years suspended, which means it is unlikely Sarkozy will physically go to prison.
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Germany to tighten COVID-19 controls at French border
France's eastern Moselle region is now classed as an area "at particularly high risk of infection due to widespread occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 virus variants", Germany's Robert Koch Institute for disease control announced.
