The Latest Breaking News from France

Cocaine overtook cannabis as France's most lucrative illicit drug in 2023, generating €3.1 billion as usage tripled over a decade despite falling prices.

The Thiaroye camp near Dakar was a Senegalese army barracks housing African soldiers called “tirailleurs sénégalais” (Senegalese riflemen). It welcomed men returning from the European front of the second world war, where the riflemen had been held as German prisoners of war while serving on the side of France. They…

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been called “the worst place on earth to be a woman” and “the rape capital of the world”. A 2014 survey estimated that 22% of women and 10% of men had experienced sexual violence during the conflict in the country’s east. After years…

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for defence of the 1905 law separating church and state, which marks its 120th anniversary on Tuesday, in order to preserve individual and collective freedoms.

French rider 'on the right track aiming for the general classification' after year of discovery in 2025

France’s social security budget heads into a knife-edge vote on Tuesday that could plunge Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu's government into a new political crisis and open a €30-billion gap in funding for welfare, pensions and healthcare.

Candace Owens claims Charlie Kirk warned he would be killed, alleging donor alerts and links to a wider political conspiracy.

Migrant support groups in France say lack of action over British activists is ‘encouraging violent and xenophobic practices’

Nicolas Sarkozy’s new book, The Diary of a Prisoner, is being released this week – and also details the time he spent in jail

NASCAR is facing a federal antitrust lawsuit involving team owner Richard Childress

The revived Czech manufacturer, Jawa, launched two lightweight models in France as part of its expanding European push.