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Until recently, French towns with fewer than 2,000 residents – the majority in the country – didn't have to name their streets. A new law is changing that. While it will help with deliveries and services, some worry that standardising addresses might erase centuries of rural identity.

The southern French city of Marseille was this week shaken by two apparently drug-related killings, including the murder of a 15-year-old boy who was "stabbed 50 times" and burned alive, prosecutors said on Sunday.

The leaders of France and Israel exchanged tense public statements on Saturday night after French President Emmanuel Macron called for other countries to stop arming the Israeli military for its war in Gaza. The comments drew fierce condemnation from Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

An Israeli airstrike has hit a mosque in central Gaza and Palestinian officials said at least 19 people were killed

French leader also criticises Israel’s decision to send troops to Lebanon, saying regional ‘escalation’ must be avoided.

For decades, swathes of France's coastline have been regularly swamped by toxic green algae, especially in Brittany. Scientists say it forms due to a glut of chemical waste from intensive farming that spills into the sea. One young photographer is exposing the problem from an unusual and surprisingly beautiful perspective.

At least four people, including a two-year-old, die in two attempts to cross the channel on crowded boats.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for other countries to stop delivering weapons to Israel that will be used in its war in Gaza, where more than 41,000 people have died in nearly a year of fighting.

Women and men march in village where Pélicot’s husband is accused of drugging her and inviting men to assault her