At Monday’s cabinet meeting, the French government is expected to reaffirm its determination to press ahead with pension reform, without any major concessions to the trade unions or political opposition.

Yoro Diao, 94, is one of the few surviving Senegalese tirailleurs – African colonial riflemen who fought in the French army during the country’s biggest 20th century conflicts. But once the wars were over they began a new battle against the French adm…

French volunteers are using a pioneering Japanese tree-planting method to create pocket forests in Paris in the hope they will slow climate change, create biodiversity hotspots and tackle the growing number of heatwaves in the capital.

A hundred people gathered on a beach in Pornic on France’s north western coast (Loire-Atlantique) on Saturday to denounce the pollution of plastic micro-beads washed up there and on other beaches in recent weeks. Several elected officials have filed a…

A dozen youth organisations marched through Paris on Saturday afternoon, to show their anger over the government’s pension reform. Actively supported by far-left party France Unbowed party, they are hoping to capitalise on the success of the massive i…

The collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange has had repercussions around the globe, with more than a million clients losing money overnight. In France, some 50,000 to 60,000 people were affected. As they look for legal solutions to get their money…

France’s top court on Friday threw out a case against former health minister Agnes Buzyn over her allegedly “endangering the lives of others” by initially downplaying the gravity of Covid-19.