With a year to go to the Olympics, Paris is in the final phase of a historic clean-up which will soon see swimmers and divers back in the River Seine.

The Indian leader will attend the Bastille Day parade as a guest of honor and discuss purchases of Rafale warplanes and Scorpene vessels

Calm has returned to La Grande Borne. Local mafia again exercise lazy control from the doorways of this vast housing estate south of Paris; their guns on show, their faces hidden.

Emmanuel Macron has accused protesters of exploiting the death of a teenager shot by police at point-blank range.

Prosecutors have begun piecing together what happened before the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M by a police officer.

A different side of the French capital reveals smaller museums, under-the-radar spots in Montmartre and a diverse performance scene.<

French President Emmanuel Macron said at a security conference in the Slovakian capital on Wednesday that his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin had jolted NATO awake by invading Ukraine last year. Macron also called on the West to offer Ukraine "tangible and credible" security guarantees as it battles the Russian invasion.

Progress on enlargement, the budget and governance will be close to impossible without harmony between Paris and Berlin

The rapidity with which China is doing back-to-back meetings with key countries such as France, Saudi and Iran, China is positioning itself as a broker of “wisdom.”

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to use his influence to help stop Russia's war in Ukraine.

Burkina Faso’s military government accused France24 of “legitimizing” terrorism

Ohio officers, who conducted a botched raid of rapper’s home, are suing for invasion of privacy and emotional distress

Largely peaceful protests are marred by outbreaks of violence as unions claim 3.5 million turned out, while authorities put number at just over 1 million

Police clashed with over a million demonstrators opposed to President Macron’s pension reform

One of the world’s most influential countries, France, has been brought to its knees by days of violent protests.

French president fends off efforts to halt his pension revamp and topple his administration

Trade unions have led strikes against proposed rise in pension age, which is now likely to become law

President Emmanuel Macron saw his decision to push through a change in the retirement age as necessary, but the price may be high.

After President Emmanuel Macron pushed his unpopular pension bill through Parliament without a vote, demonstrations about the changes broke out again.

Paris is world famous for romance. But what about bromance (or romance fraternelle, as the UK's French cousins might say)?