France began a 12th day of cross-sector strikes Thursday to protest the government’s contested pension reform. Oil refinery workers walked off the job and protesters piled up rubbish bins in front of the Constitutional Council, which is expected to ru…

Garbage collectors in Paris have voted to resume their strike – promising to once again transform the streets of the capital into a “public rubbish dump” until France’s controversial pensions reform bill is scrapped. 

France’s highest constitutional authority, the Constitutional Council, will rule Friday on whether President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious pension reform proposal should be accepted, modified or rejected based on the guidelines of the French constitut…

Rescue workers on Wednesday dug out the last two people missing after an explosion destroyed a residential building in the French Mediterranean city of Marseille, taking the final death toll to eight.

Dutch police arrested two protesters who ran towards French President Emmanuel Macron shouting slogans outside Amsterdam University on Wednesday, a police spokesman said, the second public disturbance during Macron’s state visit. 

Thursday’s twelfth day of strike action by French trade union groups opposed to the government’s pension reforms is expected to cause limited disruption in education, rail and air transport. The Constitutional Council is to pronounce on the acceptabil…

France’s parliament is debating a bill aimed at adapting society to the growing number of people over 85. But opposition MPs and professionals working with older people say the mini-measures are a far cry from President Emmanuel Macron’s earlier ambit…