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Tour de France 2018 route unveiled

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Macron gives first live TV interview

French President Emmanuel Macron has dismissed opponents' criticisms that he is a 'president of the rich' and urged his countrymen to take a more positive attitude towards success.

France

Asterix drawing sells for record 1.4m euros in Paris

An original illustration for the cover of one of the early Asterix comic books has sold for a record €1.4m at auction in Paris, more than seven times its expected price.

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Former French Culture Minister is chosen as candidate to head UNESCO

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Kennedy's Manitou shines in St Tropez

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Kennedy's Manitou shines in St Tropez

As it has done since 1981, The Voiles de St Tropez has brought the yachting season to a close.

Sport

2019 Women's World Cup presented in Lyon, France

FIFA's Gianni Infantino has presented the 2019 Women's World Cup in the French city of Lyon

France

France to send missions to Chad and Niger to bring back refugees

French president announces measures alongside promise to crack down on economic immigrants.

France

Greenpeace redacts report on French nuclear security as likely to offer intel to terrorists

Greenpeace is making what it calls an "alarming" full report on French nuclear security unavailable to the public in case it offers intel to terrorists.

France

Sheep take to the streets in France as farmers protest wolf protection

Farmers blame wolves for livestock deaths and want more hunting rights

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France leads EU pressure on Catalonia

France says it will not recognise an independent Catalonia as other EU governments urge region to up hold the law

France

Veteran French film star Jean Rochefort has died in Paris aged 87.

Veteran French film star Jean Rochefort one of the country’s best-loved actors has died in Paris aged 87.

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France hands maximum sentence to mother of jihadist

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How the French helped Catalonia hold its controversial independence vote

Ballot papers printed in a French region of the Pyrenees were sent to Catalonia in the run up to the referendum

France

Iraq doesn't want armed clash with Kurds

Iraq's prime minister Haider al-Abadi, in Paris on bi-lateral talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, has stressed he does not want an armed clash with Kurdish Iraqi authorities and urged Peshmerga forces in disputed areas to work with Iraqi security forces under the control of the central gove

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Paris's most secret shop

In Paris with Brigitte Tanaka, a mysterious collector you will never meet.

France

Five arrested over homemade bomb found near Paris stadium

In a posh neighbourhood near the Paris Saint-Germain's football ground, police found four gas canisters doused with petrol and wired to connect to a mobile phone.

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Marseille knife attacker had multiple identities, French prosecutors say

France

Marseille knife attack: two women killed, assailant shot dead

French media report one woman had her throat slit and another was stabbed to death, in what is being treated as a likely terror attack.

France

French police say stabbings in Marseille are "likely terrorist attack"

The French authorities are describing as a "likely terrorist attack" the killing of two women on Sunday in Marseille which has been claimed by so-called Islamic State.