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Seven months after cyclone Chido struck Mayotte, France’s poorest department, parliament has passed a sweeping plan to help rebuild the island, address social divisions and tighten migration rules.

Human-driven climate change intensified the most recent European heatwave by as much as 4C in several cities, raising temperatures to levels that posed serious health risks to thousands of people, scientists reported on Wednesday.

A year after the first claims of sexual abuse by the French priest and charity founder Abbé Pierre, 12 more people say they were assaulted. Seven of them say they were minors at the time. The Catholic Church and Emmaüs, the charity organisation founded by Abbé Pierre, have put in…

Forty years ago this week, the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior was sunk by two bombs planted by French secret service operatives. The bombing, which killed photographer Fernando Pereira, was intended to halt Greenpeace’s campaign against French nuclear testing at Moruroa Atoll. Instead, it galvanised the global environmental movement and left…

A top European court Thursday said a Swiss court did not give double Olympic champion Caster Semenya a fair trial in a much-awaited appeals ruling over contested gender testing.

French President Emmanuel Macron wraps up a three-day state visit to Britain on Thursday with a summit aiming to "reboot" defence ties with a focus on joint missile development and nuclear co-operation.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday it was "critical" that France and the UK work together on artificial intelligence in order to catch up with the United States and China.

Police have raided the headquarters of the far-right National Rally, seizing documents and accounting records as part of a sweeping inquiry into alleged illegal campaign financing.

France will loan the 11th century Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum for 10 months from September 2026, the UK government and Emmanuel Macron announced during the French president's state visit to Britain. Hailed as a historic cultural gesture, the loan will be made in exchange for ancient "treasures", mainly…

The Mediterranean Sea has just experienced its hottest June on record, with marine heatwaves of "record intensity" affecting 62 percent of its surface, Mercator Ocean International announced Tuesday.

Journalist Ekaterina Barabash was under house arrest in Moscow for 'telling the truth about the war in Ukraine'. Rather than risk a decade in Putin's prisons she chose to flee, crossing the forests of Belarus alone. Having been in Paris for two months now, she spoke to RFI about leaving…