Former prime minister Francois Fillon looked on Friday to be in a strong position to claim his center-right party's nomination to contest next year's French presidential election as he and rival Alain Juppe held final rallies of the primary campaign.
Police broke up a terror ring plotting an attack in France after arresting seven suspects in Strasbourg and Marseille over the weekend, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday (Nov 21).
A year after jihadists sowed terror in Paris, killing 130 people, the City of Light is struggling to restore its lustre as fearful tourists stay away in droves.
Fires cut through a swathe of the Calais "Jungle" on Wednesday (Oct 26), sending migrants fleeing as French authorities prepared to ramp up demolition of the notorious camp.
It was a winter evening in Aubervilliers. The inventory was done, and Jenny Chou was finishing her shift at a shoe store. As the bespectacled 24-year-old walked out on Avenue Victor Hugo, a young man grabbed her purse and ran.
French police have arrested a second couple in connection with a car found carrying seven gas cylinders near Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, a judicial official said on Thursday.
Three French startups received awards Monday evening for their products that could make everyday life better experience in the near future, joining previous winners of a national program designed to support innovative entrepreneurs.
France said Tuesday it will call on the European Commission to suspend negotiations on a massive trade deal between the European Union and the United States, which it complained are unfairly weighted in favour of the Americans.
Amid the ongoing debate on whether France should ban the Muslim swimsuit burkini, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Monday met clerics of the Muslim community to discuss Muslims' better integration in the secular French state.
Paris, the most visited European capital, suffered a sharp decline in number of visitors over the first half of the year compared to the same period a year ago due to terror attacks, strikes and floods, official data showed on Tuesday.
The Muslim community in France has a key role in preventing radicalization of youth attracted by online terror propaganda, but it's up to French authorities to fight terrorism at home, said Abdallah Zekri, general secretary of French Council of Muslim Faith.
Knife-wielding attackers interrupted a French church service, forced the priest to his knees and slit his throat on Tuesday, a murder made even more shocking as one of the assailants was a known would-be jihadist under supposedly tight surveillance.
The Islamic State-related Amaq news agency, citing a source, said Saturday an IS "soldier" executed the attack in Nice, France, on Thursday in response to the group's call to target the anti-IS alliance.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abu Dhabi on Friday condemned in the strongest possible terms the heinous terrorist crime that killed at least 84 civilians in Nice of France.
France was stung by terrorism once more late Thursday, as a truck plowed through a crowd of revelers celebrating France’s Bastille Day holiday, killing at least 84 people and wounding more than 100.
An attacker killed up to 80 people and injured scores when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, officials said.
Government archives and historical materials show that Japan admitted both publicly and in government documents in the 1920s and 1930s that the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea belong to China, said Zhu Jianrong, a professor of international relations at Toyo Gakuen University in Tokyo, Japan.
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