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France

Man arrested for driving stolen car at French soldiers jogging in the Alps

None of the soldiers were injured and no motivation for the attack has so far been established.

29/03/2018

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Delacroix retrospective at Louvre

The exhibition will bring together more than 180 of his works, ranging from his most famous paintings, drawings and prints to the last little-known compositions

28/03/2018

France

Watch live: France holds memorial service for ‘hero’ police officer

France pays tribute to the police officer who was killed after trading places with a hostage held by an Islamist militant.

28/03/2018

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French lower house held minute of silence for victms of market attack

France's lower house of parliament on Tuesday paid tribute to the victims of the Islamic extremist attacks in southern France last week that killed four people.

27/03/2018

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World's largest cruise ship sets sail from shipyard in Saint-Nazaire

The world's biggest cruiseliner, the Symphony of the Seas, was handed over by French shipbuilder STX to the US giant Royal Caribbean International ahead of her maiden voyage in the Mediterranean.

27/03/2018

France

France to make school compulsory from the age of three

France is lowering the age that children begin compulsory education from six to three. How does it compare to the rest of Europe?

27/03/2018

France

American WWII fighter pilot's body returned from France after 74 years

Lieutenant Frank Fazekas' body is finally being returned from France, where it lay for 74 years after his plane crashed in a field in the run-up to D-Day during World War II.

27/03/2018

France

Paris police say murder of a Jewish woman in Paris was a hate crime

Mireille Knoll's burned and stabbed body was found three days ago in her apartment in the eleventh arrondissement. Jewish communities have reacted strongly to her murder.

27/03/2018

France

French left-winger arrested for tweet celebrating death of policeman

A former French left-wing parliamentary candidate for the France Insoumise party was arrested Sunday over a tweet concerning a policeman who was killed during the supermarket siege in Trèbes.

26/03/2018

France

Tributes pour in for police officer who traded places with hostage

Tributes were paid to Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Beltrame, the French police officer who died after swapping himself for a hostage during an Islamist attack

25/03/2018

France

Trebes mourns day that changed the little town forever

Many people packed into the small church in Trebes this Palm Sunday after terror came to their town this week.

25/03/2018

France

Terror comes to small French town

The people of Trebes come to terms with the shocking terrorist attack that shattered the calm of their peaceful community.

24/03/2018

France

French Senate forum: Where next in fight on Middle East terrorism?

After the fall of ISIL in Iraq, where is the fight against terrorism going? A roundtable at the French Senate discussed the war in Yemen, Hezbollah, and Syria.

24/03/2018

France

The police officer who took the place of a hostage has died

Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame who volunteered to take the place of a hostage in a French supermarket siege has died from his wounds

24/03/2018

France

French police officer who traded places with hostage dies

France's interior minister has said Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame performed an "an act of heroism."

24/03/2018

France

Air France cancels quarter of its flights

The cancellations are due to a strike by staff

23/03/2018

France

France supermarket terror: What we know

Death toll rises to four after a gunman went on a shooting spree in the southern French towns of Carcassonne and Trèbes on Friday.

23/03/2018

France

France: Supermarket manager describes attack as 'terrifying'

Four people have been killed and 16 injured by a gunman who stormed into a supermarket in southwestern France, shouting 'Allahu Akbar'

23/03/2018

France

French pensioners join public sector workers' protest over government

Tens of thousands of nurses, teachers, train drivers and other civil servants demonstrated against President Macron's planned reforms

22/03/2018

France

The Euronews interview that is key to the investigation into Nicolas S

Seven years on, the shockwaves of Saif Gaddafi's words are being felt.

22/03/2018

France

I have never betrayed the French, says Sarkozy amid Libya funding prob

France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy has appeared on prime time French television after being put under formal investigation over claims he received campaign funding from late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

22/03/2018

France

French public sector sets collision course with Macron with strikes

Protesters are challenging the French president's economic reform plans

22/03/2018

France

Sarkozy says he's "living in hell"

Prosecutors are looking into allegations that Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign was aided by millions of euros in money from late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi

22/03/2018

France

Still standing out: Europe's enclaves and their complex histories

Euronews takes you on a tour of some of the continent's most-fascinating enclaves.

21/03/2018

France

French report raises spectre of imminent "silent spring"

Report reveals flying insect population crash due to pesticides, resulting in a third of the bird population disappearing from lack of food, with some less common species suffering 90% declines.

21/03/2018

France

French feminist groups sceptical over on-the-spot fines for sexual har

Are on-the-spot fines for sexual harassment in the street a good idea? The French government plans a new law but some feminist groups believe it might be unenforceable and counterproductive.

21/03/2018