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Wave of unrest after teenager’s death leaves French president weighing pleas to tackle inequality against calls for tougher policingEmmanuel Macron is facing the biggest domestic challenge of his fraught second term in office, after the police shooting…
Inquiry comes after President Emmanuel Macron met mayors to explore ‘deeper reasons’ for violenceFrench prosecutors have opened an investigation into the death of a 27-year old man who was hit by a projectile at the time of the riots on Saturday, the M…
Paris city hall has said Monday it is “not worried” about knock-on effects from almost a week of riots on next year’s Olympic Games.
Calls are mounting in France to take down an online fundraiser for the family of the police officer who shot and killed a 17-year-old in the suburbs of Paris last week, which had collected nearly €1.5 million by Tuesday. But the US crowdfunding platfo…
Death of Neko, who disappeared under train as it prepared to leave, left interior minister ‘shocked’A French court has found the national rail operator guilty of negligence after a departing train ran over a cat hiding on its tracks.The death of the ca…
France granted asylum to some 56,000 people in 2022, bringing the total to over half a million – a symbolic number as the government would like to reform the country’s immigration laws and shorten the amount of time it takes to rule an asylum claim.
The number of new cancer diagnoses in France doubled between 1990 and 2023, according to a new statistical analysis, which found that while cancer remains the leading cause of death in men, the rate in women is on the rise, in particular those cancers…
Twenty-five children and 10 adults sent to camps for suspected jihadists to be returned to FranceFrance has repatriated 25 children and 10 women who were held in prison camps for suspected jihadists in north-east Syria, the fourth such operation in a y…
Governing his already-polarized country has gotten near impossible after the police killing of a teen boy set off tumult.
In today’s newsletter: The death of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk triggered five nights of riots in Paris and beyond – but they had been brewing for years• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. Apologies if this is the second ti…