In the first such event in France, some 30 French Imams visited the Holocaust Memorial at Drancy near Paris on Monday. The visit comes at a time of high tension between France’s Muslim and Jewish communities.
France’s marriage equality bill cleared its first and main hurdle on Saturday when lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the most important article of the new law, redefining marriage as an agreement between two people of opposite or same sex.
A French air strike may have killed at least five civilians in Mali, Amnesty International has revealed in a new report that also highlights alarming human rights violations by Malian soldiers.
Google signed an agreement with François Hollande on Friday that will see the internet giant setting up a 60-million euro fund to help old media adjust to digital technology after two months of mediation with French news sites.
A Corsican man thought to be one of the island’s most notorious gangsters was taken into custody on Friday after a criminal tried to break into his car, attracting the attention of the police, who then found a stash of weapons in the boot.
President François Hollande has been bolstered by France's military intervention in Mali, but with the economy stagnating, he is in trouble with key voting constituents at home.
After five years of unsuccessful labour negotiations, Goodyear executives on Thursday announced a plan to close a tyre plant that employs 1,173 workers in the northern French city of Amiens. Goodyear described the plan as "the only option".
French prosecutors called for the mayor of Mont Saint-Michel on January 30 to be handed a six-month suspended jail sentence and a fine of 30,000 euros after his political rival accused him of making a tidy profit by purposefully misguiding tourists.
Robert Plant, a 32-year-old Briton, was charged on Wednesday with the brutal murder of a French mother of three who was stabbed while out jogging near Nimes last week.
France on Wednesday halted the sale of a hormonal acne drug manufactured by Bayer that has also been used as a contraceptive pill. Four women have died in the past 25 years from blood clots attributed to Diane 35.
IMF chief Christine Lagarde denied on Thursday any wrongdoing in the settling of a 2008 fraud case after police stepped up their investigation into the affair, searching the home of her former chief of staff, France Telecom CEO Stéphane Richard.
