RFI    French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has called attention to youth violence on his th day in office, laying plans for a jolt of authority in the face of what he says is increasing disregard by teenagers.

RFI    French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has ordered a curfew for minors in Pointe à Pitre, the economic capital of Guadeloupe, in an attempt to address a crimewave in the French overseas department.

Paul Myers    Marius Hamelot recalls his fine April morning at the inauguration of the Olympic Aquatics Centre chatting to President Emmanuel Macron as well as a phalanx of politicians and Paris Olympics officials with a mixture of pride, astonishment and self deprecation.

RFI    France’s largest squat, which housed up to mostly legal immigrants, was on Wednesday evacuated in the southern suburbs of Paris days ahead of the Olympic Games.

RFI    A new operation against insecurity, illegal immigration and unsanitary housing was launched on Tuesday in the French overseas department of Mayotte a year after the start of the first intervention, Wuambushu.

RFI    President Emmanuel Macron visited the southern French town of Vassieux en Vercors on Tuesday to lead a tribute to the local Maquis Resistance fighters who launched an attack against pro Nazi forces years ago before a final counter attack by German troops.

RFI    French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to ensure there will be an ’Olympic truce’ during the Summer Games to be held in Paris in July and August, in the face of ongoing international conflicts, in Gaza, Ukraine and in Sudan. He has also assured that the opening ceremony could be moved away from...

RFI    French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has ordered increased security at synagogues and Jewish schools as the Passover holiday approaches, a day after Iran launched a drone and missile attack at Israel.

RFI    Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral, ravaged by a fire in April , is on track to reopen on schedule and under budget by December , five years later, the head of the reconstruction has said.

RFI    Around , demonstrators, half of them loyal to France, the other half pro independence protesters, took to the streets in Nouméa on Saturday. The protest took aim at a planned expansion of the electoral list ahead of provincial elections later this year in New Caledonia, a French overseas...

Isabelle Martinetti    How can people living outside the centre of Paris get the most out of the Olympic Games French architecture students sought to answer the question by designing portable fan zones for the northern Paris suburb of Saint Denis.

RFI    A French court has rejected a demand by construction company Vinci for nearly . billion euros from the government for the abandonment of a controversial project to build an airport in Notre Dame des Landes, in the west of France. It nonetheless opened the door to a termination indemnity for the...

RFI    With fewer people sending each other letters, France’s post office will change its strategic plan for the next ten years, looking to significantly increase its home meal delivery business aimed in particular at elderly people and to continue to deliver parcels.

RFI    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.

RFI    France’s government has presented a controversial bill on assisted dying that would allow terminally ill patients to take lethal medication, as public demands grow for legal options for aid in dying.

RFI    France’s two time world obstacle course champion Anouk Garnier roped her way m up to the second floor of the Eiffel Tower on Wednesday, laying down a new world record and sending out a strong symbol of sporting achievement in the run up to the Paris Games.

RFI    France’s finance ministry will raise its deficit target for to the equivalent of between percent and . of GDP on Wednesday, up from an original target of . percent due to a rapid deterioration of state finances, reported a leading French financial newspaper.

Sarah Elzas    The Value Added Tax, introduced to simplify revenue collection after WWII, is a mainstay of France and Europe’s fiscal policy, bringing in a large part of state revenue. As an invisible’ consumption tax that applies to everyone regardless of income, some consider it unjust, but it does allow...

RFI    The Seine that runs through Paris and is set to be the stage for the Summer Olympics remains too polluted just months before the start of the games, warns a French environmental organisation that published results from months long testing of the river

RFI    A massive dust plume is crossing Europe, deteriorating air quality in many areas, warns the European climate monitor. The phenomenon has been increasing in recent years, and this is the third dust episode in two weeks.

RFI    French prosecutors have charged four people with murder over the violent beating of a teenaged boy who died from his injuries the second assault of a student outside of school in the past two weeks.

RFI    French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute on Sunday to Jewish children deported from an orphanage in the southeast of France by the Nazis, and to members of the French Resistance, in the first of a string of events he is leading this year to mark years since D Day and the Liberation of...

RFI    A French teenager has died from wounds suffered during a violent assault outside a school. It’s the second brutal attack on a pupil in a week, prompting President Emmanuel Macron to warn schools need to be protected from the uninhibited violence of some youths.

RFI    A cloud of sand from the Sahara Desert will cover the whole of France this weekend an orange spectacle visible to the naked eye that may cause some health problems.

RFI    A French court has 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.

Jessica Phelan with RFI    With just, places of worship for some five million Muslims, France has a shortage of mosques and securing permits and financing for new religious sites is notoriously difficult. That leaves many worshippers struggling to find a place to pray, especially during the holy month of Ramadan.

RFI    French lawmakers have adopted a bill to restrict the production and sale of non essential products that contain PFAS, a group of synthetic forever chemicals that break down slowly and have been linked to cancer.

RFI    French police have searched the mayoral offices of former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe as part of a preliminary probe into possible corruption and financial wrongdoings.

Alison Hird    President Emmanuel Macron’s call for Europe not to rule out sending troops to Ukraine to defeat Russia marks a turning point in France’s decades long unhealthy fascination with the country and its strongmen, argues journalist Elsa Vidal. So what’s been driving the charm

RFI    The population of brown bears in France’s Pyrenees mountains has risen to levels not seen since the s, authorities have said.