The Latest Breaking News from France

French President Emmanuel Macron has highlighted the significance of France's military base in Djibouti as essential to its Indo-Pacific strategy during a stop-over visit to the country, where he met with Djiboutian President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh.

Animal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting worldwide and to stop Japan if it tried to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean.

Credit rating agency Moody’s has downgraded France’s seven largest banks this week – just days after lowering the country’s own sovereign credit rating. The move signals rising borrowing costs for France, adding to a €3.2 trillion debt burden and deepening the pressure on an already fragile government.

With a seriously ill mother in Scotland and an arduous journey to France via Amsterdam, it had the makings of a nightmare day for everyone

The European Union has responded to France's request for assistance for its overseas territory of Mayotte, devastated by Cyclone Chido, as President Emmanuel Macron told angry locals they would be "10,000 times" worse off if they were not in France.

French president makes remark when confronted by residents still without water after huge storm last week

US tourists can fly for less to cities in France and the Netherlands next year

France's flagship Flamanville nuclear reactor in Normandy was to start supplying electricity to homes on Friday when it's reconnected to the power grid after a dozen costly years of technical setbacks.

A French court has halted plans to build four large water reservoirs in western France, ruling that they would threaten the survival of the little bustard, an endangered bird species.