A woman reportedly shouting "Allahu Akbar" has attacked and injured two people at a supermarket in La Seyne-sur-Mer, southeastern France. She has been taken into custody and is being checked for terrorist links.more
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed the new Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Contego yesterday at the Elysée. Leaders said they supported the plan to create European centers for migrants in the countries of origin to limit the flow of people to the EU.more
About 450 radicalized detainees, including 50 Islamic terrorists, will walk free by the end of 2019 in France, the Justice Minister said. French prisons struggle with overcrowding, violence and often fail to combat radicalization.more
French authorities have thwarted a possible attack using ricin or explosives and handed preliminary terrorism charges to a young Egyptian man arrested in Paris, officials said Friday.more
The suspect in a deadly knife attack in central Paris on Saturday evening was born in 1997 in the Russian republic of Chechnya, a judicial source says.more
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Paris on Saturday to protest against the stream of economic reforms brought in by French president Emmanuel Macron since coming to power a year ago.more
Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect from the 2015 Paris attacks, has been jailed for 20 years in Belgium over a gunfight that led to his arrest.more
French authorities evacuated tourists from the Mont-Saint-Michel abbey and were searching houses Sunday on the famed outcropping in the English Channel for a visitor who apparently threatened to attack security services.more
French President Emmanuel Macron told the EP in Strasbourg that France is ready to increase its contribution to the EU budget, as long as it means reforming it and increasing efficiency.more
The head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs Gerard Collomb declared that the secret services of his country observe almost 11,000 radicalized Islamists who may pose a terrorist threat.more
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was on Wednesday night charged over a probe into whether his 2007 election campaign received £42 million in illegal funding from the Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi.more
The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been taken into police custody to be questioned over allegations that he received millions of euros in illegal election campaign funding from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.more
Hubert de Givenchy, the French couturier who upheld a standard of quintessentially romantic elegance in fashion for more than four decades, dressing the likes of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Grace Kelly and memorably Audrey Hepburn.more
French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb on Sunday indicated that two terror attacks were averted so far in France since January, French media reported.more
The Eiffel Tower is closed and authorities are telling drivers in the Paris region to stay home as snow and freezing rain have hit a swath of France ill-prepared for the wintry weather.more