News from France
France's public health system will soon start to cover most of the cost of weight-loss drugs Wegovy and Mounjaro for severely obese patients.
French lawmakers voted on Thursday to repeal the Code Noir, a law that regulated slavery in the French colonies that was never formally repealed even after the ...
French President Emmanuel Macron has signed a pact with hundreds of companies as part of an ambitious drive to double the share of domestically-produced electri...
Nicolas Sarkozy has been many things in French public life: president, campaigner, political disruptor and, in the long-running Libya financing affair, central ...
The former CEO of French cement firm Lafarge, Bruno Lafont, and his right-hand man at the company Christian Herrault are to be released from prison under judici...
Renaissance leader Gabriel Attal has put immigration at the heart of his newly launched presidential campaign, calling for France to admit fewer people while gi...
The number of reports of missing children in France is on the rise, reversing a downward trend in recent years, according to the Droit d'Enfance foundation in a...
The general secretary of France’s largest trade union has warned that union freedoms are "in danger" after she was placed under formal investigation for defam...
The recent case in France of a retired teacher ensnared by an online vigilante posing as a teenage girl has put paedophile hunters back in the headlines. But wh...
France has launched two probes into the Jeffrey Epstein affair, looking at potential crimes committed in the country or involving French nationals tied to the l...
France’s Constitutional Council has upheld maintaining low-emission zones, which restrict the use of the most polluting vehicles in towns and cities. The ruli...
A French collector has paid more than €450,000 for a 14-step segment of the Eiffel Tower staircase at an auction in Paris.