Alison Hird    French singer Aya Nakamura confirmed her status as queen of the pop music scene, sweeping three big prizes at Les Flammes awards for rap, R B and pop on Thursday where she thanked fans for support over racist attacks following rumours she would perform at the Paris Olympics.

RFI    Students at one of France’s top universities occupied its premises overnight Thursday after police broke up a pro Palestinian demonstration there on Wednesday. It follows similar waves of anger across college campuses in the US in protest over Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

Sarah Elzas    Why French youth are once again under fire as the government vows to crack down on violent crime. The staying power of Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano in one of Paris’s smallest theatres. And why French women won the right to vote so much later than many of their European neighbours.

RFI    French and German defence ministers will sign a landmark deal in Paris on Friday that paves the way for joint development of a new battle tank, known as the Main Ground Combat System MGCS . The project, already several years in the making, is tipped to put the European partners ahead of the United...

RFI    France is seeing a remarkable surge in the number of people living beyond years, a study by the National Institute of Demographic Studies revealed on Thursday. It noted the emergence of a new age group of people known as supercentenarians those older than years.

RFI    French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Europe to rise up to the challenges of a changed world, warning that our Europe, today, is mortal and it can die .

RFI    The blades of the Moulin Rouge windmill, one of the most famous landmarks in Paris, collapsed overnight Thursday, just months before the French capital hosts the Olympics.

RFI    A French police trade union is threatening to disrupt the Olympics torch relay ahead of the start of the Paris Games in July unless officers are given bonuses they were promised. The union says they’re ready to strike later today, Thursday.

RFI    Former French prime minister François Fillon is to face a third trial after the Court of Cassation on Wednesday confirmed his guilt in the case of a fictitious jobs scandal involving his wife. However the court also overturned an earlier appeals decision on sentencing and damages.

RFI    A far right French mayor has announced the introduction of a nighttime curfew for children under in a bid to curb alleged youth violence, which has become a political issue in the run up to European elections in June.

RFI    French authorities in imposed excessive and illegitimate restrictions on people’s right to demonstrate, the rights group Amnesty International said in a report published Wednesday.

Jan van der Made    In France, April is a national day of remembrance for the Armenian genocide of , when Ottoman troops killed hundreds of thousands of Armenians. Other groups who were victimised want their plight recognised too but getting a place in France’s memory laws is controversial, and not an easy...

RFI    French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Tuesday said that a French made artificial intelligence AI system will be used to simplify administrative procedures moving forward. He also announced the creation of additional France Services centres by .

RFI    At least five migrants, including a child, died overnight trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain on their overcrowded small boat, local authorities said on Tuesday.

RFI    A French parliamentary commission on Monday began the long task of examining proposals to be included in a controversial bill backed by French President Emmanuel Macron that would allow citizens to apply for assisted dying.

RFI    Prime Minister Gabriel Attal continued his offensive against juvenile delinquency in Nice, with a visit to an experimental educational boarding school to illustrate the prevention aspects of a plan he unveiled last week in Paris.

RFI    A crowd of around, people protested in Paris against racism, Islamophobia and violence against children on Sunday after a court allowed their demonstration to go ahead.

Sarah Elzas    French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement of a new tax on used book sales to protect new books is the latest proposal from a government with a history of intervening in the publishing industry to keep it afloat.

Jessica Phelan    This April marks years since women secured the right to vote in France. A wartime decree finally granted equal suffrage in decades later than other European countries, and only after generations of women had demanded their democratic rights.

RFI    French authorities on Friday detained a man after receiving an alert from the Iranian consulate in Paris that someone had entered carrying an explosive, the capital’s police authority said.

RFI    A year old girl has died of a heart attack in eastern France after her school locked down to protect itself from a knife attacker who lightly wounded two other girls, an official said on Friday.

RFI    Jérôme Hamon, the first man in the world to have undergone two face transplants in and and who thus had three different faces during his life, has died at the age of .

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    A curfew for minors in Pointe à Pitre, the economic capital of Guadeloupe, will come into effect Monday evening in an attempt to address a crimewave in the French overseas department. It was announced during a visit by French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin last week.

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.