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At the close of an international conference in Paris on the Great Lakes region, French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that €1.5 billion has been pledged in aid. Meanwhile the airport in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, will reopen to humanitarian flights.

As France's parliament enters the final days of trying to agree on a belt-tightening budget for 2026, lawmakers are voting Friday on a wealth tax that left-wingers say will help reduce the country’s €44 billion debt pile and budget deficit. The government, meanwhile, is defending an alternative to such a…

With the announcement this week that tech giant Amazon will cut 14,000 jobs, the era of AI-related redundancies appears to be well and truly under way. While restructuring and a slowdown in recruitment are already evident in the United States, the impact of this technology in France remains difficult to…

With the announcement this week that tech giant Amazon will cut 14,000 jobs, the era of AI-related redundancies appears to be well and truly under way. While restructuring and a slowdown in recruitment are already evident in the United States, the impact of this technology in France remains difficult to…

The finely balanced provisional results of the Dutch election has intensified the debate over European security and dependence on the United States, prompting urgent questions about defence autonomy and the respective roles of the Netherlands and France.

A group of lawyers has filed a complaint against French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin for what they say is an "illegal conflict of interest," following his visit to former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who is serving a prison sentence.

France experienced a record surge in homeless deaths in 2024, with 912 people dying while living without stable housing, according to figures released Thursday by the collective Les Morts de la Rue.

Two French police officers have been detained and suspended over allegedly raping a young woman while she was in custody at a court outside Paris. The men have admitted sexual relations but claim they were consensual.

France’s National Assembly has for the first time voted a motion pushed by the far-right National Rally urging the repeal of a 1968 agreement which grants Algerian citizens special residency and immigration rights.

The French government says it's "particularly concerned" about the violent crackdown on post-election demonstrations in Cameroon and has called on the authorities to guarantee the safety and physical well-being of all the country's citizens.

With 99 per cent of votes counted, the Dutch election has ended in a dead heat between D66 and Geert Wilders’ PVV. Leiden University professor Bernard Steunenberg says the result signals a return to the political centre and indicates that voters are seeking practical solutions, both at home and across…