The Latest Breaking News from Bastille Day

The man who drove a truck into the crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice in 2016, killing 86 people, injuring hundreds of others, is himself dead, shot by security forces at the scene. The eight accused in this trial are suspected of relatively low levels of complicity. Few bereaved families…

Six years after a truck drove into a celebrating crowd on France's national holiday, Bastille Day, the trial of those who allegedly assisted begins in the Paris terrorism court.

Eight people are going on trial in a special terrorism court in Paris

Seven men and one woman went on trial on Monday over a deadly 2016 truck rampage in the French city of Nice, accused of helping the driver who killed 86 people, including 15 children and teenagers, who had gathered to watch a fireworks display.

Seven men and one woman will go on trial on Monday over the 2016 Bastille Day attack in the French city of Nice, in which 86 people were killed and hundreds injured by a gunman who drove a heavy truck into a crowd gathered to watch fireworks.

There is an elevated threat of terror attacks on French soil by extremists coming from Iraq and Syria, France's national anti-terrorism prosecutor warned Friday. Jean-Francois Ricard said in an interview on French news broadcaster BFM TV that terrorist acts carried out “by individuals coming from areas where terrorists are operating,…

In a TV interview on Bastille Day, French President Emmanuel Macron talked about the war in Ukraine, dependency on Russian gas, inflation and reforms – painting a grim picture of France's economic future as a result of the war in Ukraine.

The 22-year-old become the youngest ever winner of the queen stage of Le Tour as a revived Chris Froome came in third

Three planes that were set to take part in the Bastille Day military parade in Paris have been dispatched to the Atlantic coast to help fight two out-of-control fires that have already burned nearly 3,700 hecatres of pine forest.

The holiday marks the fall of the state prison, the Bastille, where political prisoners were often held and which symbolised the harsh rule of the Bourbon monarchy

France is celebrating its national holiday with thousands of French troops marching down the Champs-Elysees avenue alongside Eastern European allies touched most closely by the war in Ukraine.