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The Élysée Palace unveiled a revamped cabinet on Friday under new Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, France's second-ever female premier. A month after his re-election and ahead of crucial parliamentary polls in June, President Emmanuel Macron appointed Catherine Colonna, France's ambassador to the UK, as his new foreign minister while keeping…

France's interior minister says that he will seek to overturn a rule change in the city of Grenoble that would allow women to wear burkinis in state-run swimming pools.

More than 100,000 people marched through cities across France on Sunday as part of the traditional May Day rallies which were given extra piquancy this year coming exactly a week after Emmanuel Macron was voted in for a second term as president.

French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to make the fight against gender inequality the "great cause" of his second term in power. Marine Le Pen promises to "stand in the way of anyone" who threatens women. FRANCE 24 spoke to several women’s rights activists about the two presidential candidates’ programmes,…

Any presidential campaign has its emblematic moments that change the course of the race, be they breathtaking instant tide-turners or incidents laden with meaning only in hindsight. With French voters set to elect a president on April 24, FRANCE 24 looks back at telling moments from campaigns past. In the…

The family of the late Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna, who died in a prison attack in March that sparked rioting on the French Mediterranean island, has filed a lawsuit against the French state.

With just over two weeks to go until the April 10 first round of France's presidential election, candidates and experts alike are flagging the threat of historically low voter turnout after a race eclipsed by the war in Ukraine.

French interior minister writes to Priti Patel urging government to set up proper consular services in Calais