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Flagmakers rush to meet demand as France prepares public show for Paris victims

Workers in flag-makers up and down France are making tens of thousands of stitches in time for Friday’s great display of national pride. The

Europe News

Captagon: the so-called 'super' stimulant 'used in Syria'

Captagon: the stimulant that is said to be fuelling fighters in Syria. Or is it? Media reports have described it as a super drug that can mask pain

Europe News

Schengen under pressure after terror attacks

Random checks on the French-German border. This could become a more common sight after the bloodshed in Paris two weeks ago. France wants tighter

France

How to talk to kids about tragedies such as the Paris attacks

How can we as parents or elders best communicate to children about terrorism and other senseless tragedies?

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France

French comedian Dieudonné is sent to jail over anti-semitic remarks

France

France introduces plain cigarette packaging

The French parliament has narrowly passed a law to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes . It’s in a bid to cut the number of its smokers

Syria

Infographic: ISIS strikes 6 countries in a month of terror attacks

Cinema

LUX prize awarded to for Deniz Gamze Erguven's "Mustang"

Another award for Deniz Gamze Erguven’s “Mustang” one of this year’s film sensations. The French-Turkish-German co-production has been awarded the

Cinema

Coming to the big screen near you

“Les Cowboys” is a drama from France but there is not a gunslinger in sight. The French film tops our list of European films that are hitting the big

France

All hostages are freed after a botched robbery in northern France

A hostage taking incident in the northern French town of Roubaix appears to be over. Police have reported one gunman as dead and another arrested

France

Paris attacker Abdelhamid Abaaoud 'returned to scene of shootings'

Abdelhamid Abaaoud appears to have returned to the scene of the Paris attacks. Prosecutor François Mollins says he was also planning explosions at la Defense, the capital's business district.

USA

Obama and Hollande call for greater cooperation against ISIL

The presidents of France and the United States have called for a renewed international effort to fight Islamic State militants. Francois Hollande and

Syria

Anti-ISIL coalition courts Russia to destroy ISIL

Diplomacy has increasingly been mixing with war measures as allies redouble efforts to destroy the radical Islamic State movement ISIL — talking

Cinema

France bags a hat-trick at the International Emmy Awards

France has triumphed at the International Emmy Awards at the New York Hilton picking up three prizes in the arts, TV movie and mini-series

France

French police hunt new suspect over Paris attacks

Olivier Corel is the latest person wanted by French police investigating the deadly Paris attacks. Known as the “white emir”, the 69-year-old Imam is

Series

Postcards from Lyon: A changing skyline

Our new series of Postcards comes to you from Lyon, France's second largest metropolitan centre

Series

Bird's-eye views: it's worth the climb in Lyon!

Syria

French bombers target so-called Islamic State facilities in Raqqa

French jets taking off from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier along with six bombers from an air base in Jordan have hit targets occupied by the

France

Hollande to hold talks with Obama over revamping efforts to defeat ISIL

French jets from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier have begun striking ISIL targets in Iraq while Britain offered France the use of an air base

France

'I'd be happy for an imam to speak at the funeral,' says father of Bataclan victim

In Venice, further proof has been given that the Paris attacks have touched people far and wide. Crowds of people, among them Italian Prime Minister