The Latest Breaking News from France

On Saturday, the fifth day of violent protests all over France against the police killing of an unarmed teenager, Nahel Merzouk, the daily arrests dropped below 1,000 for the first time, but the violence became even more extreme.

Investigation opened into the death of a 27-year-old caused by a ‘flash-ball’ projectile.

When a police officer last week shot and killed a resident of Paris’s suburb of Nanterre, 17-year-old Nahel M., it unleashed a wave of unrest across France – an echo of similar protests launched by youth living in housing projects two decades earlier. Billions of euros of investment in the…

Emmanuel Macron pledged swift government support to help mayors rebuild schools, libraries and town halls destroyed during a week of violence that swept across France after the police shooting of a teenager.

Dutchman fined for bumping Girmay in sprint, Philipsen denies causing Jakobsen crash

Cavendish took a gamble on the wheel of former world champion Mads Pedersen at the finish of stage four of the Tour de France, but it did not pay off

For decades, Annie Ernaux has written fearlessly about sex, abortion and illness – laying bare herself and society. Her deeply intimate and political work earned the French writer the Nobel Prize for literature last October. Ernaux spoke to FRANCE 24's Fatimata Wane at the Taormina book festival in Sicily, where…

Everything you need to know about the Tour de France 2025, taking place between 4-26 July

Paris city hall has said Monday it is "not worried" about knock-on effects from almost a week of riots on next year's Olympic Games.

Caleb Ewan second, Phil Bauhaus third in Nogaro

Cadan Murley is taking inspiration from the Manchester City striker as he looks to seal a spot in Steve Borthwick’s squad for France