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FRANCE OPENS INQUIRY INTO RIGHT-WING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FILLON'S WIFE
France opens inquiry into right-wing presidential candidate Fillon's wife - France 24... READ MORE›
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FRANA?OIS FILLON CALLS FOR FRANCE TO 'IGNORE' SCHENGEN AND HAVE 'REAL' BORDERS WITH EUROPE
As long as Europe's borders are not protected by our partners, France will re-establish real controls at its borders, Mr Fillon tweeted... READ MORE›
LOST IN TRANSLATION? FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER'S LACK OF ENGLISH BAFFLES US BANKERS
Unlike the previous finance minister Emmanuel Macron who is fluent in English... READ MORE›
IN FRANCE ONCE POWERFUL SOCIALISTS STAND LITTLE CHANCE OF WINNING ELECTION
The reasons for the surprising demise of the Socialist Party in France are manifold... READ MORE›
HOW 'MODERNISER' HAMON AND 'TOUGH MAN' VALLS PLAN TO WIN OVER FRANCE'S LEFT
While Valls is described as a law-and-order strongman, Hamon is a moderniser who advocates a universal basic income... READ MORE›
FOR FRANCEA??S LEFT, A TIME OF CRISIS
A member of France's oldest trade union, Mr. Ducourtioux, 52, was a stalwart Socialist Party voter who once might have been inside, cheering... READ MORE›
FRENCH COURT TELLS TUV TO PAY DAMAGES
The commercial court in Toulon, southern France, said TUV Rheinland must pay 3,000 euros to each of the 20,000 plaintiffs... READ MORE›
FRANCE'S BATTERED SOCIALISTS MAKE LAST PITCH TO VOTERS IN PRIMARY DEBATE
However, only four candidates have a genuine chance of winning - all of them Socialist Party members... READ MORE›
FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL, EX-PM VALLS SLAPPED DURING CAMPAIGN STOP
Valls, who is running in the Left's primaries on Sunday to be a candidate for president, did not appear to have been hurt in the incident... READ MORE›
FRENCH MEDIA ARE REPORTING SOME BAD NEWS FOR IRELAND'S BID TO HOST THE 2023 RUGBY WORLD CUP
Ireland will be heavily courting the North American vote and will visit the United States for a second time in June... READ MORE›
EU NEEDS NO ADVICE FROM OUTSIDERS
French President Francois Hollande responded to US President-elect Donald Trump's criticism of the European Union... READ MORE›
ABOUT 100 MISSING AFTER BOAT SINKS OFF LIBYAN COAST
More than 1,000 people have arrived in Europe by sea in the first two weeks of 2017, the UN refugee agency UNHCR estimates... READ MORE›
NEARLY 100 REFUGEES MISSING AFTER BOAT SINKS OFF LIBYA
Nearly 100 people are missing after a boat packed with refugees and migrants sank off the Libyan coast, killing at least eight, according to the Italian coastguard... READ MORE›
TREE KNOCKED OVER BY STORMS IN FRANCE KILLS MOM IN FRONT OF HER CHILDREN
Strong winds in northern France cut power to some 190,000 homes as a storm surge sweeps Europe... READ MORE›
FROM JAIL, PARIS ATTACKS SUSPECT PENS INTROSPECTIVE LETTER TO FEMALE FAN
From jail, Paris attacks suspect pens introspective letter to female fan... READ MORE›
EXPLORING EUROPE'S LARGEST ABBEY IN FRANCE'S SAUMUR WINE COUNTRY
FRANCE 24's You are here takes you to see it and to meet a local Saumur winegrower... READ MORE›
HUNGARIAN CAMERAWOMAN WHO KICKED MIGRANTS SENTENCED
Video of Petra Laszlo kicking or tripping up migrants near the Hungary-Serbia border went viral... READ MORE›
FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL MACRON SHOCKS BY SPEAKING ENGLISH
He also tweeted from the conference in both English and in French... READ MORE›
PARIS MAYOR'S WAR ON CARS MOVES UP A GEAR WITH BAN IN HEART OF CITY
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo fired another shot across the bow at the capital's car culture on Sunday, in the face of increasing criticism... READ MORE›
GERMANY WELCOMED 280,000 MIGRANTS LAST YEAR, FAR LOWER THAN 2015
Then came a deal between the European Union and Turkey that reduced arrivals crossing the Aegean Sea... READ MORE›
GERMANY SEES MASSIVE DROP IN ASYLUM SEEKERS
They headed for Germany after Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered a temporary open-door asylum policy... READ MORE›
CONTROVERSY OVER ARABIC CLASSES IN FRENCH STATE SCHOOLS
FOCUS Some 55,000 pupils study Arabic at France's state schools. Most of them are the children of immigrants who want to stay in touch with the..... READ MORE›
NUMBER OF REFUGEES REACHING EUROPE PLUNGED IN 2016
In addition, EU countries have not found a way to quickly send back economic migrants... READ MORE›
FARMER ON TRIAL DEFENDS SMUGGLING MIGRANTS
They are saying M. Herrou is endangering the Republic, Mr. Oloumi told the three judges... READ MORE›
FARMER ON TRIAL FOR SMUGGLING MIGRANTS INTO FRANCE SAYS IT IS HIS CIVIC DUTY
Herrou is charged with helping illegal migrants enter France, travel in France and stay in France... READ MORE›
FRENCH POLICE CALLED TO SCHOOL THAT GAVE ARABIC CLASSES
Hollande France has a problem with Islam French Muslim activist Yasser Louati said the incident in Six-Four-Les-Plages reflected a normalisation of state sponsored racism ... READ MORE›
FADING FRENCH TOWN OFFERS CHANCE FOR SYRIAN FAMILY AFTER ISLAMIC STATE OCEAN ORDEAL
The Alahamads were assigned to France, a country neither the Russian-trained doctor nor his wife, a 33-year-old nutritionist and beautician, had ever visited... READ MORE›
THE ELECTIONS THAT COULD DERAIL THE EU IN 2017
France, Germany and the Netherlands The elections that could derail the EU in 2017... READ MORE›
HERE'S ANOTHER REASON TO MOVE TO FRANCE
Here's another reason to move to France No after-work emails... READ MORE›
SYRIAN ARRESTED IN GERMANY OVER ALLEGED IS ATTACK PLAN
The 38-year-old, who came to Germany in late 2014 as an asylum-seeker, was arrested on Saturday in Saarbruecken, close to the French border... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : France
FRENCH EMPLOYEES CAN LEGALLY IGNORE WORK EMAILS OUTSIDE OF OFFICE HOURS
The right to disconnect bill was packaged with new and controversial labor reforms introduced in France earlier this year... READ MORE›
GERMAN PEOPLE DONATED SO MUCH TO MIGRANTS THAT POLICE HAD TO ASK THEM TO STOP
This morning Polizei M nchen's official account tweeted that around 590 refugees were at the city's main train station adding Anyone who wants to help is welcome... READ MORE›
MORE THAN 11,000 ICELANDERS OFFER TO HOUSE SYRIAN REFUGEES TO HELP EUROPEAN CRISIS
More than 11 000 icelanders offer to house syrian refugees to help european crisis... READ MORE›
FREXIT: LE PEN PROMISES TO TAKE FRANCE OUT OF EU & NATO
Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Front and a candidate for the 2017 presidential elections, is known for her Euroscepticism and anti-immigrant views... READ MORE›
PARIS SHOOTING: SCORES KILLED AND INJURED AFTER 'KALASHNIKOV AND GRENADE ATTACKS' ACROSS FRENCH CAPITAL WITH DOZENS OF HOSTAGES TAKEN
France is our oldest ally, and the French people have stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States time and again... READ MORE›
EUROPEANS GREATLY OVERESTIMATE MUSLIM POPULATION, POLL SHOWS
According to Pew Research, France's Muslim population actually stood at 7.5 percent in 2010, or one in 13 people... READ MORE›
FRANCE SAYS IT WILL TAKE 30,000 SYRIAN REFUGEES, WHILE U.S. REPUBLICANS WOULD TURN THEM AWAY
Debate over taking in Syrian refugees in perspective, French President Francois Hollande declared on Wednesday that his country would accept 30,000 Syrian refugees over next two years... READ MORE›
ANGELA MERKEL CALLS FOR WIDESPREAD BAN ON 'FULL VEIL' ISLAMIC COVERINGS
On Tuesday, she also criticized the alleged spread of Islamic sharia law... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 127 DEAD IN SERIES OF TERROR ATTACKS
French President Francoise Hollande declared a national state of emergency following what he called 'unprecedented terror attacks', shut borders and deployed an extra 1,500 troops to Paris... READ MORE›
ONE DEAD AND TWO CRITICAL AFTER LIFEBOAT DETACHES FROM WORLD'S BIGGEST CRUISE SHIP
A Harmony of the Seas crew member has died and four others have been injured after a lifeboat fell off the world's biggest cruise ship... READ MORE›
US COUPLE DONATE EUR350MN ART COLLECTION TO MUSEE D'ORSAY IN PARIS
Perhaps just as important, the Hayses' collection is a perfect fit for the Musee d'Orsay, which features mostly French works of art from 1848 to 1914... READ MORE›
FRANCE CAN NOW SHUT DOWN ANY WEBSITE AND SEARCH WHOEVER IT WANTS
Police in France have been given huge new powers including the ability to put people under house arrest without trial and to block websites... READ MORE›
HUNGARIAN BISHOP SAYS POPE IS WRONG ABOUT REFUGEES
This is an invasion said Bishop Laszlo Kiss-Rigo whose dominion stretches across the southern reaches of this predominantly Catholic nation... READ MORE›
2 US SERVICE MEMBERS FOIL GUNMAN IN TRAIN ATTACK
On the platforms of the Gare du Nord in Paris, where the trains arrive and depart, uniformed police officers are often visible... READ MORE›
THE RUTHLESSLY EFFECTIVE REBRANDING OF EUROPE'S NEW FAR RIGHT
In France, the new majority Marine Le Pen hopes to build is strikingly similar to the coalition that brought the Brexit campaign victory... READ MORE›
BURQAS MOSQUES GAY PROPAGANDA ALL BANNED IN HUNGARIAN VILLAGE
Hungary is one of the European countries least welcoming to refugees and asylum seekers... READ MORE›
GERMAN VILLAGE OF 102 BRACES FOR 750 ASYLUM SEEKERS
Mr. Fabel, the mayor, insisted that Sumte, despite its unease, was open-minded and hospitable, and was now focused on making the refugee holding camp work... READ MORE›
AUTHORITIES HUNT FOR A FRENCH NATIONAL
Complete coverage of Paris attacks As investigations into the attacks gathered speed over the weekend, authorities detained people in France and Belgium... READ MORE›
GERMAN MEDIA SAY BOY, 12, PLANNED TWIN BOMB ATTACKS
European security agencies believe the Islamic State is currently developingA new tactics to strike at the West including kidnapping and car bombs... READ MORE›
MIGRANT DEATHS IN MEDITERRANEAN TOPS RECORD 5,000 THIS YEAR
So far this year, about 359,000 migrants and refugeesA fleeing war-torn areas of the Middle East and AfricaA have reached Europe by sea, according to IOM figures... READ MORE›
FRANCE'S TOP WEATHERMAN SPARKS STORM OVER BOOK QUESTIONING CLIMATE CHANGE
The book has been released at a particularly sensitive moment as Paris is due to host a crucial UN climate change conference in December... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE JIHADIS 'MAY BE POSING AS SYRIAN REFUGEES'
Asked if Isil could be sending militants under cover of being refugees Mr Saab said Yes they bring some people the smugglers... READ MORE›
'WORLD'S MOST POPULAR WEEDKILLER' BANNED FROM SALE OVER CANCER LINK
The UN's International Agency for Research on Cancer IARC classified glyphosate in March as probably carcinogenic to humans and is the active ingredient in Roundup... READ MORE›
2 TERROR SUSPECTS DEAD AFTER FRENCH POLICE RAID NORTH OF PARIS
The operation was launched after tips that the suspected Paris attack ringleader could be in the city... READ MORE›
PRIEST KILLED BY TWO 'IS SOLDIERS'
The two attackers, who said they were from the so-called Islamic State IS, slit Fr Jacques Hamel's throat during a morning Mass, officials say... READ MORE›
SYRIAN REFUGEES PRAISED FOR SEIZING FUGITIVE IN GERMANY
Jaber al-Bakr, 22, was tied up and held by three other Syrians who alerted police... READ MORE›
'MY IPOD IS BROKEN. I WANT TO COME BACK'
And Le Figaro said that, among Islamist commanders, it had been noticed that some of the French were beginning to want to leave... READ MORE›
MEN WHO STOPPED TRAIN ATTACKER AWARDED LEGION D'HONNEUR
French President Francois Hollande awarded France's highest honor Monday to three Americans and a Briton who tackled a gunman on a train from Amsterdam to Paris... READ MORE›
US SOLDIER SPEAKS ABOUT 'BEATING UNCONCIOUS' GUNMAN THREATENING FRENCH TRAIN
France train shooting US soldiers speak of the moment they stopped gunman and 'beat him until he was unconscious'... READ MORE›
Related News Headlines : France
WHO WILL BE FRANCE'S PRESIDENT IN 2017?
Francois Fillon, The Republicans Mr Fillon, 62, was very much overshadowed by then-President Nicolas Sarkozy when he served as prime minister in 2007-2012... READ MORE›
'VALLS IS HOLLANDE'S LOOKALIKE: ENOUGH OF BEING SLAVES OF BRUSSELS'
President Francois Hollande named Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve to head the government until the general election next May... READ MORE›
FRENCH RIGHT VOTES FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO OPPOSE MARINE LE PEN
First round of voting will choose two candidates to go foward from Alain Juppe, Francois Fillon and Nicolas Sarkozy... READ MORE›
MARINE LE PEN, BEPPE GRILLO, GEERT WILDERS, FRAUKE PETRY
Mrs Le Pen can win in France concluded former prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin... READ MORE›
WOMEN ACROSS FRANCE WILL LEAVE WORK AT 4:34 P.M. TODAY. HERE'S WHY.
PARIS -- An activist group is urging French women to stop working Monday at 4 34 p.m... READ MORE›
HOW FAR RIGHT WILL NICOLAS SARKOZY GO TO BECOME FRANCE'S PRESIDENT AGAIN?
After a humiliating defeat in 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy -- a very French blend of tabloid celebrity and professional tough guy -- wants to be president again... READ MORE›
FRENCH PRESIDENT HOLLANDE CONFIRMS CALAIS 'JUNGLE' CAMP TO CLOSE
President Francois Hollande says France will completely shut down the Jungle migrant camp in Calais... READ MORE›
SARKOZY MOUNTS WHAT HE HOPES IS A COMEBACK IN FRANCE
Yet in a France under terrorist threat, Nicolas Sarkozy may be the man of the moment in a presidential race picking up steam... READ MORE›
BURKINI MUST BE BANNED IN FRANCE, SAYS NICOLAS SARKOZY AS HE LAUNCHES PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN
France banned the burka in 2010 but authorities in 26 towns in the south have gone further by forbidding burkinis... READ MORE›
ELDERLY PRIEST KILLED AND KNIFEMEN SHOT DEAD AFTER ATTACK ON CHURCH IN NORMANDY, FRANCE
The parish identified the slain priest as Father Jacques Hamel, 84... READ MORE›
WORLD LEADERS REACT WITH HORROR TO ATTACK
SPAIN Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said he called his counterparts in France to express his condolences... READ MORE›
TRUCK ATTACK IN NICE FRANCE WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE DONT
O The president said he would request a three-month extension of the state of emergency declared after terrorist attacks in and around Paris in November... READ MORE›