Current president says he is against move despite the definitive conviction of the right-wing former president last year on charges of influence-peddling and corruption.

The suspect, identified as a French citizen of Bosnian origin, remains on the run; the authorities are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.

The saga of the sexual abuse scandal at the Notre Dame de Bétharram private Catholic school in south-west France, and just ...

The European Court of Human Rights has sided with three women who said they were raped when they were aged 13, 14 and 16 and ...

At the recent LVMH annual meeting in Paris, shareholders of the luxury goods group granted its 76-year-old billionaire boss ...

During his two-day visit, the French president also announced plans to step up economic ties, including investment in a major hydroelectric dam project.

April 17th marked the bicentenary of France’s recognition of the independence of Haiti, its former colony, when in return it ...

A 27-year-old British man, who has not been named, died of cardiac arrest after being dug out of the snow of an avalanche ...

Just as a long period of soured relations between France and Algeria, its former North African colony, appeared to be on the ...

Following the expulsion earlier this week of 12 French officials from Algeria after an Algerian consulate official in France ...

Retired French surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, 74, is standing trial on charges of raping and sexually assaulting 299 people, many ...

The attacker at the school in Nantes, reported to be a 15-year-old student, was overpowered by teachers before police officers arrived.