France

A Sotheby's employee shows a Superb and extremely rare ruby and diamond ring by Cartier, with a Burmese ruby.

Paris

Paris' luxury Ritz hotel finds guest's missing diamond ring in hoover

Catholics demonstrate against a play they believe is "anti-Christian" in Paris on 29 October 2011.

Extremist groups

11/12/2023

France to ban far-right Catholic group for 'legitimising violence'

Visitors queue in front of the pyramid to enter the Louvre Museum in Paris on 29 April 2022.

Tourism

11/12/2023

Louvre museum to hike ticket price to 22 euros from January 2024

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin (C) reacts as French Senate president announces the vote result during a voting session on an immigration bill at the French Senate in Paris on November 14, 2023.

Immigration

11/12/2023

Macron defends France's 'tradition of asylum' ahead of immigration bill debate

FILE PHOTO: The French Languedoc (D653), a FREMM multipurpose frigate, performs manuevers during the "Noble Dina 23" multilateral aeronautical exercise in the Mediterranean sea on 27 March, 2023.

DRONE ATTACK

10/12/2023

French warship in Red Sea targeted by drones launched from Yemen

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FILE PHOTO: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen speaks to media at the National Assembly in Paris, Thursday, 16 March, 2023.

LE PEN - FRAUD

10/12/2023

Far-right Le Pen to stand trial on EU embezzlement, fraud charges

Workers operating on scaffoldings around the wooden structure of the new spire in place at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, on 2 December 2023 during reconstruction work.

Notre-Dame restoration

09/12/2023

France races to reopen Notre-Dame cathedral by December 2024

The French flag flies above the presidential Elysee palace in Paris (illustration).

Secularism

08/12/2023

Macron fends off criticism over Jewish ceremony at Elysee Palace

France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne (L) applauds President of the Departmental Council of Mayotte Ben Issa Ousseni (R), on the sidelines of the signature of a financial agreement between French State and the Department at the Departemental Council of Mayotte in Mamoudzou, during her one-day visit on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, on December 8, 2023.

Mayotte

08/12/2023

French PM addresses security, health, immigration during visit to crisis-hit Mayotte

A scientist prepares protein samples for analysis in a lab (illustration)

French research

08/12/2023

Macron outlines plan to boost efficiency of French research bodies

Front entrance to the Sciences Po university in Paris, France (illustration)

Society

08/12/2023

French students occupy prestigious university after director's arrest

Spotlight on France, episode 104

Spotlight on France

07/12/2023

Podcast: British in France, returning human remains, the Comtesse du Barry

The cover of "Charlie Hebdo" on 14 January 2015, after a terror attack.

Justice

07/12/2023

French weekly Charlie Hebdo sued for defamation by a Muslim school in Valence

FILE PHOTO: French police patrol at the Trocadero Square near the Eiffel Tower in Paris (illustration).

Security

07/12/2023

Paris knife attack suspect charged with terror offences

Annual working hours are shorter in France than in most European countries, especially for full-time employees, according to a study published the Rexecode Institute, based on European statistics.

Employment

07/12/2023

French workers clock-up less hours per year than EU average: report

Ultra right demonstration organised in May 2023 in tribute to the young militant, Sebastien Deyzieu who died on 9 May 1993 at an anti-American imperialism march.

FRANCE - EXTREMISM

07/12/2023

Ultra-right group disbanded after violent clashes in south of France

The Olympic Rings at the Hotel De Ville in Paris.

Paris Olympics 2024

06/12/2023

Tourist minister says France will increase hotel checks before Olympics

France's Education and Youth Minister Gabriel Attal delivers a speech during the new school year meeting of rectors at the Sorbonne university in Paris on August 24, 2023.

06/12/2023

French education minister wants to improve schools after Pisa shock

A forensic police officer works at the scene of a stabbing in Paris on December 2, 2023. A person known to the French authorities as a radical Islamist with mental health troubles stabbed a German tourist to death and wounded two people in central Paris on 2 December before being arrested.

Security

06/12/2023

Paris knife attack suspect to face charges in anti-terrorist court

A barge piece of the starting line dedicated to the swim familiarisation event of the 2023 World Triathlon Olympic Games Test Event on the Seine river on 20 August, 2023.

Paris Olympics 2024

06/12/2023

French sports minister says 'no plan B' for Olympics opening ceremony

A man is vaping an electronic cigarette.

Health

05/12/2023

France moves to ban disposable e-cigarettes

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Protestors wearing yellow vests ("gilets jaunes"), clash with French riot police during a demonstration against rising costs of living they blame on high taxes in Mondeville near Caen, northwestern France, on December 8, 2018.

JUSTICE

05/12/2023

European rights court probes France over protester losing eye

People take part in a demonstration against racism and an immigration law at the occasion of 40th anniversary of 1983 equality march, in Paris on 3 December 2023.

Immigration

04/12/2023

Protest in Paris against immigration law as parliamentary debate continues

French police secure the access to the Bir-Hakeim bridge after the fatal stabbing of a German tourist in Paris, France 2 December, 2023.

PARIS ATTACK

04/12/2023

Psychiatric 'failure' blamed for Paris knife attack: interior ministry

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin speaking to the press after a stabbing in Paris early on 3 December 2023.

Paris attack

03/12/2023

'Terrorist plot' probe after deadly Paris stabbing

The Vintage salon in Paris, February 2023. Buying and selling secondhand clothing is becoming trendy in France, a far cry from previous taboos against wearing used clothes.

France

03/12/2023

Secondhand chic as websites feed trend for used clothing in France

A police officer stands guard at the scene of a stabbing in Paris on 2 December 2023.

Paris attack

03/12/2023

German tourist stabbed to death in Paris 'terror' attack

A woman holds a placard reading "You never kill for love" as she marches against domestic violence in Paris.

Domestic violence

02/12/2023

Victims of domestic abuse in France to receive emergency aid

Paul-Philippe of Romania and his wife Lia Georgia Triff arrive at the Paris appeals court on 29 November 2023.

European nobility

02/12/2023

The Romanian royal descendant who France refuses to extradite

A skier competing in December 2022 in the FIS Alpine ski World Cup in Val-d'Isere, one of the Alpine towns that is part of France's bid to to host the 2030 Winter Olympic Games.

Winter Olympics

30/11/2023

French Alps the only bidder to host 2030 Winter Olympics

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