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Human rights groups have accused Tehran of carrying out a policy of hostage diplomacy, using Europeans and dual nationals as "bargaining chips" to facilitate its negotiations with the West.

Damning report by MPs comes after inquiry into allegations of decades of physical abuse, rape and sexual assault at Notre-Dame de Bétharram school

A French parliamentary inquiry has found that physical and sexual abuse went unchecked for years at a Catholic boarding school while Prime Minister François Bayrou was education minister in the 1990s.

June temperature records have been broken in Portugal and Spain, as French schools close amid heat

Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy were some of the worst hit countries, with temperatures reaching over 40 degrees Celcius.

An Algerian court on Tuesday upheld a five-year prison sentence against writer Boualem Sansal for after he was found guilty of undermining Algeria's territorial integrity. The French Prime Minister said he hoped the Algerian president would "grant Sansal a pardon".

Legal complaints filed by former pupils accuse priests and staff of physical or sexual abuse from 1957 to 2004

France’s public debt rose again in early 2025, reaching just over €3.35 trillion at the end of the first quarter – 114 percent of GDP – official figures showed on Thursday. The government now says it needs to find another €5 billion in savings to rein in the ballooning deficit.

France's Socialists have filed a no-confidence measure against Prime Minister Francois Bayrou after pension talks collapsed, a senior party lawmaker said on Tuesday, but it has little chance of passing without the support of the far-right National Rally which for the moment has suggested it will not follow suit.

Israeli defence company Rafael says it will sue the French government after its stand at the Paris Air Show was blocked off when the company refused to remove attack weapons. French authorities said the decision was taken in light of the war in Gaza.

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on Thursday confirmed four French nationals who sailed on a Gaza-bound aid boat would be deported back to France on Thursday or Friday.