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France

Green wave as environmentalists win key French cities

It came amid a record abstention rate of 59% across the country.

28/06/2020

World News

Pride 50: LGBT+ community celebrate from home amid COVID-19 lockdown

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Pride, which was first held in New York City after the Stonewall riots.

27/06/2020

France

Banksy theft: Six arrested in France over stolen Bataclan painting

The painting resurfaced in Italy earlier this month after it got stolen in January.

27/06/2020

Earth News

France is making ecocide illegal, but what does that mean?

It will be punishable by large fines and prison time.

25/06/2020

France

In pictures: Eiffel Tower to reopen after longest closure since WWII

After more than three months of closure, Paris' Eiffel Tower is set to open its doors again.

23/06/2020

Libya

Turkey is playing a dangerous game in Libya, says France's Macron

The French president's remarks on Turkey's military intervention in the Libyan civil war follows an encounter between the two NATO allies' ships in the Mediterranean

23/06/2020

France

French schools reopen as more COVID-19 restrictions lifted

Many schoolchildren in France have not stepped foot on the playground for nearly three months.

22/06/2020

France

France repatriates ten children of French jihadists from Syria

There might be around 300 children of French jihadists still in refugee camps in north-eastern Syria.

22/06/2020

France

French constitutional court blocks most of online hate speech law

The law, which was passed and adopted by France's parliament last month, required online platforms and search engines to remove hateful or terrorist content within 24 hours of it being posted, risking fines of up to €1.25 million.

19/06/2020

United Kingdom

Johnson hosts Macron in London for de Gaulle anniversary

Boris Johnson hosts Emmanuel Macron on the 80th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's famous speech from WWII

18/06/2020

France

It is 80 years since France's fight back against the Nazis began

By June 1940, France had given up the fight against Adolf Hitler. Charles de Gaulle wasn't having any of it.

18/06/2020

France

Nothing Lidl about crowds as surge makes supermarket scrap PS4 sale

The games console had been offered at a discounted €95 at a store in Orgeval.

17/06/2020

France

Police brutality in spotlight after clashes at health workers protest

The images of violence ending the peaceful protest of the health workers in France has sparked a heated debate

17/06/2020

France

Sanofi invests €610 million in French vaccine research and production

Emmanuel Macron visited Sanofi's laboratory as they announced an investment in two French centres for production and research.

16/06/2020

France

Chaos in Dijon after armed gangs burn cars and face off with police

The violence on Monday was believed to be a local reaction to three days of violence by Chechen gangs in Dijon.

16/06/2020

France

Luce Douady, 16-year-old French world climbing champion, dies

Douady was considered one of the most promising young climbers in France.

16/06/2020

France

France backtracks on chokehold ban after police protests

The interior ministry said that it would no longer teach the controversial technique but would not ban it outright.

16/06/2020

Earth News

What a 15-year-old and an 80-year-old can teach us about biodiversity

One makes a difference in the Amazon, while the other effects change from his back garden in France.

13/06/2020

France

Police in France protest chokehold ban and racism accusations

"The police is not racist... it saves lives whatever the colour of the individual's skin," a police union told reporters.

12/06/2020

Europe News

PIP breast implants: Only French victims can claim damages, rules ECJ

PIP sold an estimated one million faulty breast implants in 65 countries around the world.

11/06/2020