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.

Young people in France have featured prominently in mass protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s planned pension overhaul, rallying against a reform they consider to be unfair and symptomatic of a broader rollback of social rights. FRANCE 24 spok…

Angry farmers from across France drove their tractors into the heart of the French capital Wednesday morning to denounce “constraints” on their profession – notably a ban on the use of neonicotinoid insecticides to grow sugar beets. 

The French fossil fuel exploitation multinational, TotalEnergies, said on Wednesday that high oil and gas prices had bolstered its net profit to a record 18 billion euros in 2022. The company has announced higher dividend payments for shareholders.