NEWS WIRES    French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Thursday announced measures to crack down on teenage violence in and around schools, as the government seeks to reclaim ground on security from the far right two months ahead of European elections.

David GORMEZANO    Thousands of German soldiers moved in on southeastern France’s Vercors Plateau in July in a bid to crush a regional uprising led by a rural French Resistance group. Over Resistance fighters died in the bloody battles on the mountainside. Many of them were of African origin but who they...

Florence VILLEMINOT    Freshly back from maternity leave, FRANCE ’s Florence Villeminot shares her insights about having a baby in France. While the number of births in the country is dropping, France remains one of the better performers within the European Union. One of the reasons is its healthcare system, la S...

NEWS WIRES    Azerbaijan on Wednesday accused France of pressuring and threatening the country after Paris recalled its ambassador and accused the Caucasus country of damaging bilateral ties.

NEWS WIRES    France on Tuesday said it had recalled for consultations the French ambassador to Azerbaijan, accusing Baku of taking actions that have damaged the bilateral relationship.

Julie CHOUTEAU    Exactly five years ago, the world watched in horror as Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral was ravaged by flames. Today, carpenters and artisans are hammering away to meet a December deadline for the Gothic landmark’s grand reopening. Spectators attending the Paris Olympics this summer will already be...

Stuart NORVAL    Exactly five years after the fire that destroyed the roof and badly damaged the rest of Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, one of those who worked on the project has spoken of the camaraderie of the team reconstructing the edifice and the skill of their achievement. Valentin Pontarollo is a carpenter...

NEWS WIRES    Long the envy of other cities, Paris’ creaking underground metro system has become a subject of daily frustration for users just as the French capital gears up to host this year’s Olympics.

NEWS WIRES    France on Friday warned its citizens to imperatively refrain from travel in the coming days to Iran, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories, the foreign minister’s entourage told AFP.

Pauline ROUQUETTE    The French government on Wednesday introduced a bill on assisted suicide, paving the way for euthanasia under strict conditions. The text, which was deemed too restrictive by some and irresponsible by others, will be debated by lawmakers at the end of May.

NEWS WIRES    Rights watchdogs including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International on Thursday said they were seeking UN help to end racial profiling by the French police, they said.

NEWS WIRES    France’s President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday called for a sustainable effort to scale up weapons production following the Russian invasion of Ukraine as he laid a foundation stone for a much needed gunpowder factory.

NEWS WIRES    French athlete Anouk Garnier broke the rope climbing world record on Wednesday morning after she ascended over metres to the second floor of the Eiffel Tower.

NEWS WIRES    France’s government presented a bill Wednesday to allow adults with terminal cancer or other incurable illness to take lethal medication, as public demands grow for legal options for aid in dying.

Solange MOUGIN    While au revoir is the most common way to say goodbye in French, we take a look at some of the other ways to bid farewell. From the regional boujou , to salut , to à toute , we look at the spoken and written ways of saying goodbye in France. We also dive into some French traditions, from...

NEWS WIRES    Security will be considerably reinforced at Wednesday’s Champions League match in the French capital between Paris Saint Germain and Barcelona after a threat from the Islamic State group, the interior minister said.

NEWS WIRES    A non governmental organisation on Monday sought answers over the deaths of two French officers killed in the early days of the Rwanda genocide, a legal complaint seen by AFP showed.

NEWS WIRES    Andre Boniface, one of French rugby’s greatest players in the s and s, died in Bayonne on Monday at the age of , his family told AFP.

NEWS WIRES    French and British troops on Monday swapped roles to take part in changing of the guard ceremonies outside the palaces of the other country’s head of state, in an unprecedented move to celebrate years since the Entente Cordiale.

NEWS WIRES    A French water charity sounded the alarm Monday about pollution in the river Seine, which is set to be used for swimming during the Olympic Games.

NEWS WIRES    A French schoolboy on Friday died from wounds sustained in a violent assault, as President Emmanuel Macron warned schools should be protected from uninhibited violence among some youths.

NEWS WIRES    A French court on Wednesday sentenced Audrey Mondjehi to a year jail term for helping an Islamist militant who killed five people in a attack on a Christmas market in the eastern city of Strasbourg.

NEWS WIRES    French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France and its allies could have stopped the Rwanda genocide but lacked the will to do so, a strong declaration ahead of the African country’s th anniversary of the slaughter that left over , people dead.

NEWS WIRES    French President Emmanuel Macron dismissed Thursday as ridiculous Russia’s defense minister’s remarks suggesting Ukraine and France could had a role in last month’s deadly Moscow concert hall attack.