A fourth national day of protests against France’s pension reform plan got underway on Saturday – with unions hoping to rally momentum following a drop in the number of demonstrators joining last Tuesday’s strike.

The recent protests and strikes making the headlines are in Paris and other big cities, but people in more than 200 towns in France took to the streets on Tuesday to oppose President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. In Compiègne – an imperial town so…

French President Emmanuel Macron will on Friday have dinner with Spain’s exiled former king Juan Carlos I and Peruvian Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa. The literature laureate joined the élite French Academy on 9 February.

C8, the channel which employs controversial French TV talk show host, Cyril Hanouna, has been fined an unprecedented 3.5 million euros because Hanouna insulted the French MP Louis Boyard during an “out of control” live television interview last year.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he might strip his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of France’s top honour, but is waiting for the “right moment” to do so.

Ukraine’s wartime leader Volodymyr Zelensky has now been bestowed with France’s highest medal of honour. But there’s a problem: Russian President Vladimir Putin has the same medal.

Algeria has recalled its envoy to France “for consultations” after Paris intervened to help Amira Bouraoui, an activist and journalist who is wanted by Algiers, avoid deportation and detention.