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A French court examined on Thursday whether to release Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese activist jailed in France since 1984 for his role in the assassinations of an American and an Israeli diplomat two years earlier. Now 74, he has been eligible for parole since 1999 – but despite more…

Attorneys argued over whether a Harvard University researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos brought “biological materials” into the U.S. Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist conducting cancer research for Harvard Medical School, appeared in Massachusetts federal court Wednesday for a probable cause hearing, where government and defense attorneys argued over whether…

The Suzuki Jimny is essentially dead in Europe. Due to stricter emissions standards, sales of the off-road vehicle, which was previously only available as a commercial vehicle, were gradually discontinued in Germany and the EU in mid-2024. Now it's making a brief comeback, but only in France.

The French government is intensifying its efforts against illegal immigration with a large-scale operation deploying approximately 4,000 law enforcement personnel across the country.

On 14 June 1985, France, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany, pre-reunification) and the Benelux countries – Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg – signed an agreement in Schengen, a small town in Luxembourg, that would, eventually, see checks at their common borders abolished. The 40 years since have seen…

Many parts of England are expecting their first heatwave of the year this week, as the Met Office warns that hotter summers are on the way.

Former Olympic Lyonnais supremo Jean-Michel Aulas led the tributes on Wednesday to the former Lyon, Bordeaux and France striker Bernard Lacombe, who died on Tuesday night at the age of 72.

Ludovic Maugé, a former landscaper, thought he would live happily for many years to come on the coast of Brittany in France, where our reporter Valérie Gauriat met him.

French carmaker Citroën has told drivers to immediately stop using C3 and DS3 cars across Europe after a second person in mainland France was killed by a faulty Takata airbag.

Jasper Philipsen and Tim Merlier face off in Belgium as they target stage 1 of the Tour de France in Lille

All Netflix members in France will be able to watch TF1’s channels directly on the streaming platform as part of their existing subscription.