The Latest Breaking News from Normandy

Journalists Evgeniy Maloletka and Mstyslav Chernov spent 20 days in Mariupol at the beginning of the siege that would last nearly three months. The south-eastern Ukranian city is now occupied by Russian forces. RFI met the two Ukrainian reporters at the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents event where they…

Striking French oil refinery employees voted Wednesday to maintain blockades now in their third week, despite a government order for some of them to return to work in a bid to get fuel supplies flowing.

British-Iranian correspondent Ramita Navai was in Bayeux, Normandy on Thursday to present the première of her documentary "Afghanistan: No Country for Women", a harrowing look at life under the Taliban. Often using a hidden camera, she witnessed the daily struggle women face to stay alive.

Ken Tanner, a former Royal Marine, was among the first artillery troops to land at Normandy

Producers warn that unless crabs are curbed, mussel production in Normandy and Brittany may end within a decade

In wars throughout history, there are events that shift the balance and that we look back on as moments when everyone’s expectations and awareness of the conflict changed: the storming of the beaches at Normandy, the battle of Gettysburg, and so on.

From a film on abortion rights to a biopic about Marilyn Monroe, there's plenty in store at this year's Deauville American Film Festival. The mistress of ceremonies, FRANCE 24's very own Genie Godula, speaks to Eve Jackson at the Normandy beach town about what to look out for during this…

Critics say €90m project would reduce allied landing to a money-spinning tourist attraction

A beluga whale which had strayed into the River Seine has died despite attempts to rescue it on Wednesday morning.The 4m (13ft) whale had been stuck in the river, north-west of Paris, for a week amid growing concerns about its health.It was removed from the river, with a giant net,…

French authorities are tracking a Beluga whale that strayed far from its Artic habitat into the Seine River, raising fears that the ethereal white mammal could starve if it stays in the waterway that flows through Paris and beyond. Drone footage shot by French fire services showed the whale gently…

Paul Mappley and Yip Ward snapped up the historic hamlet of La Busliere, Normandy, which consists of six cottages, two barns and a paddock, for just €26,000