French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to expedite efforts to resolve the ongoing dispute over Chinese tariffs on French cognac exports.
France's National Assembly is set to vote on a bill that would legalize assisted dying for adults suffering from incurable illnesses, marking a significant shift in the country's approach to "end-of-life care."
French President Emmanuel Macron's diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia began with unexpected controversy after his wife, Brigitte Macron, visibly shoved him in the face as they exited their plane in Hanoi, Vietnam.
A major power outage struck southeastern France on Saturday morning, throwing the glamorous Cannes Film Festival into temporary disarray as it prepared to award its top prize. Authorities say about 160,000 households across the Alpes-Maritimes region lost power after a high-voltage line fell. The outage, which lasted for several hours, has sparked an arson investigation after a fire was reported at an electrical substation near Cannes overnight.
France plans to construct a €400 million super-maximum security prison in its South American territory, French Guyane, to incarcerate the most dangerous drug traffickers and Islamist radicals.
A spate of violent kidnappings targeting cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and their families has raised alarms in France, prompting concerns about the country's descent into organized crime akin to Mexico's.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has called on Europe and the United States to prepare for a sweeping escalation in economic pressure against Russia, declaring that it is time to “suffocate the Russian economy once and for all.”
Marine Le Pen, leader of France's National Rally party (RN), has voiced strong opposition to a proposed euthanasia bill currently under debate in the French Parliament.
Syria's new President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in Paris on Wednesday, marking his first European visit since the December 2024 ouster of Bashar al-Assad.
