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French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on Thursday announced that a unit from the elite CRS 8 police force that specialises in fighting urban violence is to be deployed to Marseille. The southern port has been plagued by gang violence over control of the city's drug trade.

France's government will on Thursday hold a crisis meeting to tackle a heatwave that could reach its high point at the weekend, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne's office told AFP.

French prosecutors have charged four suspects, two Iraqis and two Sudanese, with involuntary manslaughter over the deaths of at least six migrants whose boat sank in the English Channel last weekend.

The threat of military force to end the coup in Niger has led to significant divisions in the region.

French and German experts have begun exhuming the remains of a group of Nazi soldiers who were executed by French Resistance fighters during World War II. They were buried in a mass grave that lay hidden for almost 80 years before it was uncovered last month.

In France, the year 2022 saw the government repeatedly resort to Article 49.3 of the constitution to force unpopular reforms through parliament. The date of 16 March, in particular, marked the 100th time under France’s Fifth Republic that the executive chose to use these special powers. With this in mind,…

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