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Belgian court agrees to eventual extradition to France of terror suspect

The 31-year-old French national is suspected of killing four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May 2014.

France

Tearful goodbyes as last migrants leave Calais 'jungle'

Families, women, and unaccompanied female minors were among the last few hundred residents to leave the migrant camp.

Cult

Kungs fou music sends French electroes wild

Valentin Brunel is hot electric property

France

Leila Slimani wins France's top literary Goncourt prize

The French-Moroccan writer has been awarded the top literary award in France, the Prix Goncourt, for "Chanson douce" ("Sweet song").

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France

French authorities remove minors from shipping containers in Calais

French authorities moved about 1,600 unaccompanied underage migrants from the site of the demolished Calais refugee camp

France

French authorities remove minors from shipping containers in Calais

French authorities have begun to move about 1,500 unaccompanied underage migrants from the site of the demolished Calais refugee camp.

France

Scuffles in Paris as police move in to tear down makeshift migrant camps

Makeshift camps have sprung up since the demolition began of the migrant camp at Calais

Economy

France and China investment fund to seek global opportunities

France and China will launch a fund for joint investment in overseas projects French foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said during a Beijing visit.

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Avatars help schizophrenia patients silence tormenting voices

People with schizophrenia are volunteering for a European research project to help the control and perhaps even silence the tormenting voices in their heads by confronting a computer avatar of…

Next Series

Takeaway: me & my avatar

Can this avatar fight schizophrenia?

Sport

Judoka's honour the sport's founder with fine display on day one of Abu Dhabi Grand Slam

Born on October 28, 1860, Jigoro Kano became the founder of judo, a sport of tradition based on a moral code.

Malta

New footage shows Malta plane crash fireball

New footage has emerged of plane crash in Malta that killed five people.

France

Children still stranded after Calais camp bulldozed

Up to 200 children spent the night at a makeshift school on the edge of the Calais ‘jungle’ after spending the previous night sleeping rough.

Economy

French economy returns to growth in Q3, but lacklustre

French economic growth was up by just 0.2 percent from July to September rebounding only slightly after a small contraction in the previous quarter.

France

Calais' children forced to sleep rough for second night

Dozens of unaccompanied children are said to have faced a second successive night without shelter around the ruins of the so called ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais.

France

Paris attacks: new Bataclan frontage revealed

Almost a year after the Paris attacks, the new frontage of the Bataclan concert hall has been revealed.

France

Children 'still in the Jungle' though France declared camp cleared

Hundreds of migrants including unaccompanied children are still said to be in the camp in Calais known as ‘the Jungle’, a day after French officials declared that it had been…

France

Calais 'Jungle' camp clearance finished, prefect says

French authorities have finished clearing the shanty town known as the “Jungle” outside Calais, saying were confident of dispersing the last of its inhabitants around…

France

Who protects the protectors? French police on strike as terror shatters nerves

For many French police officers, the attack on their colleagues in the Parisian suburb of Viry-Chatillon was the straw the broke the camel’s back.

France

Fires rage in Calais migrant camp as clearance continues

More shelters and tents have been set alight overnight and on Wednesday as a minority of migrants remain on site, despite an ongoing clearance operation.