French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is meeting Tuesday with pro- and anti-independence factions from New Caledonia as part of a continued attempt to find an institutional future for the territory that has voted three times against independence.

French rescue workers found a sixth body in the rubble of buildings in the southern city of Marseille, almost 48 hours after an explosion and where residents reported a strong smell of gas. Two people are still missing.

The Parisian suburb of Saint Ouen is the first French city to give women paid sick leave for period pain. But while several lawmakers want France to follow Spain in voting a national law on menstrual leave, there are concerns such a measure could back…

Pierre Lacotte, the French ballet dancer who mined the past to produce modern choreographic classics, died on Monday in La Seyne-sur-Mer in southern France at the age of 91.

Rescue workers on Monday recovered a fourth body from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in the southern French port city of Marseille. Four people remain unaccounted for.

Security forces in the South American overseas territory of French Guiana have arrested a man suspected of having killed a member of the gendarme police force, according to the local prosecutor’s office.

The death toll rose to six on Monday morning with the discovery of another body after an avalanche on the slopes of Mont Blanc in southeastern France.