Daniel Hurst and Sarah Basford Canales    Reciprocal access to military bases and training facilities to be granted in clear break from diplomatic rupture over failed submarine dealFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails,free app or daily news podcastAustralia and France have promised...

Kim Willsher in Brest    In Brest, this protected species, found only in Brittany and the Basque Country, is being painstakingly moved to a new home before their habitat is destroyedOn a drizzly November evening, ecologists in Brest, Brittany, are rooting through the damp undergrowth flanking an unmarked and unlit track...

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris    Suspect detained after German Filipino man killed and two one British and one French injured near Eiffel TowerA year old man suspected of killing a German Filipino tourist and wounding two others near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Saturday night had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in...

Guardian Staff    John Coldwell on his first ever walkout from a performance. Plus letters from Ian Garner, David Riley and Tim Edwards on leaving theatres at the interval or even earlierTwo days before reading Zing Tsjeng’s article What made me love theatre even more Leaving a bad show at the interval, ...

Guardian Staff    Prof David Bates on the relative importance of the historian and her sibling Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieReading the obituary of the distinguished French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie November made me think about his sister, Marie Fauroux, who died in . Educated at the École Nationale des...

Paul Taylor    Macron is calling for unity, but the Israel Hamas war has sparked a rise in hate crime that threatens a fragile social peaceFrench Jews were only partly reassured when more than , people, including the prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, and two former presidents, turned out to demonstrate in...

Agence France-Presse in Bobigny    Lead books stolen from artwork, representing loss of more than m, according to prosecutorThieves have stolen parts of a lead sculpture by the German contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer from a warehouse in France, representing a loss of more than m , , a prosecutor said on Friday.Kiefer,...

Agence France-Presse in Tokyo    Joint project with EU involves more than scientists and engineers and more than companiesThe world’s biggest operational experimental nuclear fusion reactor a technology in its infancy but billed by some as the answer to humanity’s future energy needs has been inaugurated in Naka, Japan...

Jon Henley and Pjotr Sauer in Volendam    Many young people are not xenophobic but their lives are precarious, say experts, amid crises in housing and healthcareLunching on a tuna sandwich in the central market of Volendam, a picturesque fishing port north of Amsterdam, Gerald, , was lucid about his choice in last week’s Dutch election....

Angelique Chrisafis in Lyon    After recovering from being shot by police in , Toumi Djaïdja led a protest historians say must be written into the nation’s narrativeWhen Toumi Djaïdja, a year old youth worker, was shot by police as he helped a teenager who had been bitten by a dog, he did not know it would change the...

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris    Mia Schem was abducted from music festival on October; lawyer Amit Soussana has also been releasedIsrael Hamas war live updatesMia Schem, a French Israeli woman who was abducted from the Supernova music festival in Israel and shown in the first Hamas video of a hostage speaking from captivity,...

Kim Willsher in Paris    Monique Olivier, , on trial for complicity in Michel Fourniret’s murder of Briton Joanna Parrish and two French victimsThe former wife of French serial killer Michel Fourniret told police he beat British student Joanna Parrish unconscious before raping and strangling her and throwing her body in...

Rokhaya Diallo    A celebrity targeted me online, but under a system that should protect all equally, I was the one charged with a criminal offenceAs someone who has been in the public eye for the past years, I am used to scrutiny and criticism. Online hate especially when it targets women, and Black women in...

Associated Press in Paris    French authorities arrest Misa leader in major raid over claims of organised kidnapping, rape and abuseFrench authorities have arrested the leader of a multinational tantric yoga organisation on suspicion of indoctrinating women for sexual exploitation.The Romanian guru was detained on Tuesday...

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris    Public parks, forests and areas near schools will also become smoke free as part of nationwide moveFrance is to ban smoking on all beaches, as well as in public parks, forests and near schools, after Emmanuel Macron promised to create the first tobacco free generation by . From now on, no...

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris    Minister warns of risk from militias after death of year old blamed on immigrants and minoritiesThe French interior minister has called for the dissolution of three extreme right groups after a series of marches were organised in response to the killing of a year old in the south east of the...

Ramon Antonio Vargas    Franklin P Hall, at the time he died, was killed by Luftwaffe in and body had never been located or identifiedThe remains of a US army aviator who went missing after German forces shot his bomber plane down in France during the second world war nearly years ago have been located,...

Reuters in Paris    Anne Hidalgo, whose opponents have used the platform to criticise her, cited disinformation and antisemitism as reasons for leavingThe mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced she is quitting X, formerly Twitter, calling it a gigantic global sewer that is destroying our democracies by...

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris    Children, aged at time of Paty’s death, accused variously of making false accusation and pointing out teacher to killerSix teenagers will go on trial in Paris on Monday in connection with events leading to the beheading of Samuel Paty in , in a case that horrified France.The year old...

Kim Willsher in Paris    Ex wife of Michel Fourniret will be tried for her role in three more murders, including that of year old Leeds student Joanna Parrish For more than years, the parents of British student Joanna Parrish have battled for justice for their daughter, murdered by the French serial killer Michel...