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Counter-terror prosecutors are investigating a knife attack carried out near Paris on Friday, the French Ministry of Justice said.more

One person was killed and two were injured in a knife attack near Paris, with the attacker shot dead by police. A man, 22, stabbed passers-by in a park in Villejuif, about 8km (5 miles) south of the French capital, on Friday.more

One person has died and several others have been injured after a knife attack in a suburb of Paris.more

The French Coast Guard rescued 31 migrants who last night tried to cross the English Channel with two boats, says Reuters, citing local authorities.more

The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is still so fragile that there's a "50 percent chance" the structure might not be saved, because scaffolding installed before this year's fireis threatening the vaults of the Gothic monument.more

At Christmas, strikers in many industries in France still say no to authorities wishing to reform the pension system. more

Notre Dame Cathedral will not hold Christmas services for the first time in more than 200 years, following the fire that devastated the Paris landmark in April, officials confirmed.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson triumphed, and "British MPs fired the Brexit rocket," note French commentators. Mainstream media authors admit they have been fantasizing for three years about the possibility of a new referendum and the annulment of Brexit.more

Five small boats with 69 illegal immigrants aboard were detained on Tuesday within seven hours on the British side of the English Channel. This is the second such event in recent days.more

The French trade union CGT announced yesterday that there will be no interruption in the transport industry strike during the holiday season, unless the government of President Emmanuel Macron gives up the pension reform.more

Drivers and maintenance staff on two Paris metro lines voted on Monday to extend their strike against the government's planned pension reforms until Friday, a Reuters witness said.more

A group of over a dozen Russian spies belonging to an elite unit of military intelligence that carried out operations in Europe including the attempted poisoning of defector Sergei Skripal used a French alpine region as a rear base, a report said.more

France is set to be paralysed by a nationwide strike by transport workers, teachers and other professionals in a showdown between unions and President Emmanuel Macron over his planned pension reforms.more

France is hastily scraping together contingency plans for this Thursday's massive nationwide strike, which is expected to bring the country to a standstill.more

51 people were injured in a tram accident on Monday afternoon around 15:20 in Montpellier (Herault), according to Midi Libre.more

Emmanuel Macron has suffered a huge blow after a poll found nearly two-thirds of French citizens do not believe the President understands the "social hardships" ordinary people face.more

Nine people have did as violent storms swept through parts of France, Greece and Italy over the weekend, causing flash floods, landslides and the collapse of an overpass.more

As a result of the floods in the department of Var in south-eastern France, at least two people were killed, the local police said today. In neighboring Italy, a section of the highway overpass collapsed due to heavy rain.more

More organisations in France are planning to join the planned strike on December 5, as President Macron has said that "there is no freedom without public order".more

Police forces evacuated nearly 100 immigrants who set up their camp near the train station in Grenoble, according to the prefecture of the department of Isere. This is the third attempt this year to liquidate this ad hoc campsite.more

The retired general supervising the reconstruction of Notre Dame cathedral has been strongly reprimanded for telling his chief architect to "shut up" about how to rebuild the monument's spire destroyed in a fire last April. more

French prosecutors say a retired surgeon jailed since May 2017 for sexually abusing four girls may have had more than 250 victims. Joël Le Scouarnec has now had a series of new cases opened against him by a court in Brittany, in what may be the most serious case of child sex abuse in France.more

A man has been killed and five others wounded following a shooting in Marseille. The shooting occurred at around 10pm on Sunday night.more

During yesterday's protests, on the anniversary of the "yellow vests" movement, over 260 people were detained throughout France, including about 150 in Paris. The police intervened about 9,000 times. The opposition criticizes the government for its inefficiency and the police for its brutality.more

French film director Luc Besson was taken to court in the northern Normandy region on Monday for refusing to allow hunters onto his land to shoot deer.more