Kent Zoo Welcomes First Giraffe Birth in Eight Years, Named Jude
Macron rejects calls to resign as new government faces budget test
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he would continue to serve to ensure stability in the country, ignoring...
Convicted ex-president Sarkozy to learn when and where he's going to prison
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, convicted of conspiring to accept illicit funding from Libya for his 2007 elect...
French PM Lecornu faces uphill task to form new government
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu spent Sunday negotiating in a bid to form a government after losing a key politi...
Generations of musicians threatened by US tariffs, say French instrument makers
The United States has added a 15 percent tariff on European goods since August, and while wine, aerospace and luxury ite...
Reappointed French PM faces tight deadline to form government, negotiate budget
Pressure mounted Saturday on France's newly reappointed premier Sébastien Lecornu to get an austerity budget approved, a...
Macron reappoints outgoing Lecornu as prime minister
French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, just four days after he quit in th...
France’s share of foreigners lower than in most EU countries
Six million foreigners live legally in France, new statistics show.
France's Macron to name new PM in bid to end political crisis
France's Emmanuel Macron was on Friday due to pick a head of government tasked with pulling the country out of a politi...
‘Fear of death doesn't deter violent crime,’ experts say as executions rise
As countries mark World Day Against the Death Penalty on Friday – a day after France honoured Robert Badinter, the man w...
Death penalty abolitionist Robert Badinter joins France's Pantheon heroes
Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in 1981, was inducted into the Pantheon in Paris on Th...
Court rejects appeal, ups sentence for man convicted of raping Gisèle Pelicot
A man convicted of raping Gisèle Pelicot, who survived years of assaults orchestrated by her husband while she was drugg...
Podcast: Taxing the ultra-rich, last paperboy in Paris, end of the death penalty
The proposal to tax the ultra-rich that could address some of France's budget woes.
Global press freedom at 'tipping point', media watchdog RSF warns
The world is at a “tipping point” for press freedom, the French NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned as it marked...
Appeal court to decide fate of last defendant in Pelicot mass rape case
A French court is set to decide the fate of the only man still protesting his innocence in a rape case that has come to...
Robert Badinter, who ended France's guillotine era, enters the Panthéon
Robert Badinter, the lawyer and former justice minister who led France to end the death penalty, will be inducted into t...