The Latest Breaking News from France

The dollar index (DXY00 ) on Wednesday extended this week's rally and rose by +0.32% to a 1.75-month high. Political uncertainty in France and Japan is undercutting the euro and yen, respectively, to the benefit of the dollar. The dollar added to its gains Wednesday afternoon due to the hawkish...

France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Wednesday she would thwart all action by any new government, throwing into doubt Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu's ability to solve the country's deepening political crisis with a coalition cabinet.

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Japan Football Association terminates Masanaga Kageyama after he was found guilty of watching indecent images of children on a plane

On 4 October 1958, France adopted the constitution of the Fifth Republic, which established its current system of government

Sébastien Lecornu says majority of MPs willing to seek agreement on budget and avoid further instability

France’s outgoing Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, on Wednesday made a last-ditch bid to unite rival parties and pull his collapsed government out of political deadlock – hoping to agree on a budget and head off the threat of a snap election.

French influencer Amine Mojito, known as Ilan M, has been sentenced to six months in prison for pretending to inject strangers in viral "syringe prank" videos, echoing the case of Russian YouTuber Vitaly Zdorovetskiy who was jailed in the Philippines for a similar stunt.