France

France’s national competition regulator announced on Monday it has fined American tech giant Apple a record €1.1 billion ($1.23bn) for anti-competitive practices after nearly a decade of investigations.

French people should not underestimate the threat of the coronavirus since the situation in the country is already dire and likely to get worse fast, a senior health official has warned, adding that people need to stay home.

Franco-German frontier remains opened, yet border controls have been reinforced, French government has said. Earlier reports suggested that Berlin decided to shut it altogether in a bid to stop the coronavirus outbreak.

France has warned Britain to expect a bruising battle with the EU in post-Brexit trade negotiations.

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned of a looming arms race and called for new controls to limit the proliferation of conventional and nuclear weapons.

France will delay its tax on big tech firms like Google and Facebook in exchange for the United States's promise to hold off retaliatory tariffs — a potential sign of goodwill in the U.S. and European Union's increasingly tense relations over trade.

Ukraine and Russia have agreed to implement a "full and comprehensive" ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by the end of 2019, after top-level talks.

France's largest nationwide strike in years has severely disrupted schools and transport.

Students have marched through cities across France to show solidarity with a student who attempted suicide on Friday.

Multimillion-dollar donations to rebuild Notre Dame were pledged within hours of April’s devastating fire. Six months on, where’s the money?

Former French president Jacques Chirac, a bon-vivant who famously opposed the Iraq war in 2003, has died age 86, his family have confirmed.

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire only has harsh words for Libra, Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency. He wants to block its development in Europe in the name of the "monetary sovereignty" of nations.

French president Emmanuel Macron has labelled Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro “extraordinarily rude” after he endorsed a Facebook post mocking Brigitte Macron’s appearance.

Fortunately, Leopold is only a footnote on the Cap Ferrat where his legacy is buried in the past and where the beauty of Villa Les Cèdres lives on despite its provenance.

"Well done! Our land is your land, come anytime," said one of the women.

EU members have yet to reach a consensus on a candidate to replace Christine Lagarde as head of the International Monetary Fund, missing a July deadline they set themselves to fill the job, the French finance ministry said Thursday.

France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by the US, which argues that it unfairly targets American tech giants.

France has hit its highest recorded temperature - 45.9C (114.6F) - amid a heatwave in Europe that has claimed several lives.

If flying down a zip-line 115 metres in the air at 88km/h is your ideal way of seeing the Eiffel Tower, this ride might be the one for you.

A suspected parcel bomb has exploded in the centre of the eastern French city of Lyon, injuring 13 people.