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French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government Monday evening, putting together a team under Francois Bayrou, his fourth prime minister of the year, to drag the second-largest EU economy out of political crisis.

Elisabeth Borne, only the second woman to serve as French prime minister, is making a surprise return to frontline politics as education minister less than a year after losing a job that she never wished to relinquish.

France has marked a national day of mourning for the victims of Cyclone Chido, which devastated the French overseas department of Mayotte earlier this month

Three French children living in an orphanage in Damascus could be repatriated to France now that the regime has changed in Syria. An RFI investigation has identified the children as orphans of jihadists who were killed during the international coalition’s bombing of the Islamic State armed group.

The clock ticked Monday for French President Emmanuel Macron to appoint the fourth government in a year marked by a deepening political crisis.

Continental Europe is home to four microstates with populations of between 30,000 and 80,000 people: Andorra, on the border between France and Spain; Liechtenstein, nestled between Switzerland and Austria; Monaco, which sits on the French Riviera; and San Marino, which is surrounded by northern Italy.

In its first day of national mourning declared for a climate-related disaster, France will pay its respects to those in the overseas territory Mayotte killed by Tropical Cyclone Chido which swept through the island last week destroying everything in its path.

With the country in stalemate, people have lost faith in government. But citizens’ assemblies show one way forward

The legal sagas of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy are far from over as he faces a litany of judicial battles in the coming year – a year in which he will be wearing an electronic tag, after his corruption conviction was upheld by France's highest court.